A-Scan2BIM: Assistive Scan to Building Information Modeling
Weilian Song (Simon Fraser University),* Jieliang Luo (Autodesk Research), Dale Zhao (Autodesk Research), Yan Fu (Autodesk Research), Chin-Yi Cheng (Google Research), Yasutaka Furukawa (Simon Fraser University)
The 34th British Machine Vision Conference
Abstract
This paper proposes an assistive system for architects that converts a large-scale point cloud into a standardized digital representation of a building for Building Information Modeling (BIM) applications. The process is known as Scan-to-BIM, which requires many hours of manual work even for a single building floor by a professional architect. Given its challenging nature, the paper focuses on helping architects on the Scan-to-BIM process, instead of replacing them. Concretely, we propose an assistive Scan-to-BIM system that takes the raw sensor data and edit history (including the current BIM model), then auto-regressively predicts a sequence of model editing operations as APIs of a professional BIM software (i.e., Autodesk Revit). The paper also presents the first building-scale Scan2BIM dataset that contains a sequence of model editing operations as the APIs of Autodesk Revit. The dataset contains 89 hours of Scan2BIM modeling processes by professional architects over 16 scenes, spanning over 35,000 m^2. We report our system's reconstruction quality with standard metrics, and we introduce a novel metric that measures how natural the order of reconstructed operations is. A simple modification to the reconstruction module helps improve performance, and our method is far superior to two other baselines in the order metric. We will release data, code, and models at a-scan2bim.github.io.Video
Citation
@inproceedings{Song_2023_BMVC,
author = {Weilian Song and Jieliang Luo and Dale Zhao and Yan Fu and Chin-Yi Cheng and Yasutaka Furukawa},
title = {A-Scan2BIM: Assistive Scan to Building Information Modeling},
booktitle = {34th British Machine Vision Conference 2023, {BMVC} 2023, Aberdeen, UK, November 20-24, 2023},
publisher = {BMVA},
year = {2023},
url = {https://papers.bmvc2023.org/0014.pdf}
}
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