Design and Deployment of Photo2Building: A Cloud-based Procedural Modeling Tool as a Service

Manush Bhatt; Rajesh Kalyanam; Gen Nishida; Liu He; Christopher May; Dev Niyogi; Daniel Aliaga

doi:10.1145/3311790.3396670

Design and Deployment of Photo2Building: A Cloud-based Procedural Modeling Tool as a Service

Manush Bhatt
, Rajesh Kalyanam
, Gen Nishida
, Liu He
, Christopher May
, Dev Niyogi
, Daniel Aliaga

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

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Abstract

We present a Photo2Building tool to create a plausible 3D model of a building from only a single photograph. Our tool is based on a prior desktop version which, as described in this paper, is converted into a client-server model, with job queuing, web-page support, and support of concurrent usage. The reported cloud-based web-accessible tool can reconstruct a building in 40 seconds on average and costing only 0.60 USD with current pricing. This provides for an extremely scalable and possibly widespread tool for creating building models for use in urban design and planning applications. With the growing impact of rapid urbanization on weather and climate and resource availability, access to such a service is expected to help a wide variety of users such as city planners, urban meteorologists worldwide in the quest to improved prediction of urban weather and designing climate-resilient cities of the future.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	PEARC 2020 - Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing 2020
Subtitle of host publication	Catch the Wave
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	132-138
Number of pages	7
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450366892
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3311790.3396670
State	Published - Jul 26 2020
Externally published	Yes
Event	2020 Conference on Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing: Catch the Wave, PEARC 2020 - Virtual, Online, United States Duration: Jul 27 2020 → Jul 31 2020

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Name	ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

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Conference	2020 Conference on Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing: Catch the Wave, PEARC 2020
Country/Territory	United States
City	Virtual, Online
Period	07/27/20 → 07/31/20

Funding

This research was funded in part by an Internet2 and National Science Foundation ECAS grant Building Clouds: Worldwide Building Typology Modeling from Images, NSF #10001387, Functional Pro-ceduralization of 3D Geometric Models, and NSF grant #1835739, U-Cube: A Cyberinfrastructure for Unified and Ubiquitous Urban Canopy Parameterization. This research was funded in part by an Internet2 and National Science Foundation ECAS grant Building Clouds: Worldwide Building Typology Modeling from Images, NSF #10001387, Functional Proceduralization of 3D Geometric Models, and NSF grant #1835739, U-Cube: A Cyberinfrastructure for Unified and Ubiquitous Urban Canopy Parameterization.

Keywords

cloud computing
computer graphics
cyberinfrastructure
procedural modeling
urban climate

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Bhatt, M., Kalyanam, R., Nishida, G., He, L., May, C., Niyogi, D., & Aliaga, D. (2020). Design and Deployment of Photo2Building: A Cloud-based Procedural Modeling Tool as a Service. In PEARC 2020 - Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing 2020: Catch the Wave (pp. 132-138). (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3311790.3396670

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Design and Deployment of Photo2Building: A Cloud-based Procedural Modeling Tool as a Service. / Bhatt, Manush; Kalyanam, Rajesh; Nishida, Gen et al.
PEARC 2020 - Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing 2020: Catch the Wave. Association for Computing Machinery, 2020. p. 132-138 (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series).

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