High-Rise Building Construction Progress Measurement from Top View Based on Component Detection

The construction progress of a high-rise building is hidden by clutter such as formwork, wood slats, and rebar, making it difficult to measure its progress through existing automated techniques. In this paper, we propose a method to monitor the construction process of high-rise buildings. Specifical...

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Published in:Buildings (Basel) 2022-01, Vol.12 (2), p.106
Main Authors: Xue, Jingguo, Hou, Xueliang
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Automation
building component detection
Building components
Building construction
building information modeling
Buildings
Clutter
Concrete
Construction
construction process monitoring
Construction sites
Deep learning
Formwork
Global positioning systems
GPS
High rise buildings
high-rise building
Lasers
Methods
Monitoring methods
Occlusion
Radio frequency identification
Registration
Slats
Target detection
top view
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Summary:The construction progress of a high-rise building is hidden by clutter such as formwork, wood slats, and rebar, making it difficult to measure its progress through existing automated techniques. In this paper, we propose a method to monitor the construction process of high-rise buildings. Specifically, by using the target detection technique, unfinished building components are identified from the top view, and then the identified components are registered to the BIM elements one by one. This is achieved by comparing the position relationship between the target detection results and the projection area of the BIM elements on the imaging plane. Finally, the overall construction progress is inferred by calculating the number of identified and registered components. The method was tested on a high-rise building construction site. The experimental results show that the method is promising and is expected to provide a solid basis for the successful automatic acquisition of the construction process. The use of top view reduces occlusion compared to similar methods, and the identification of the unfinished component makes the method more suitable for the actual construction sites of high-rise buildings. In addition, the combination of target detection and rough registration allows this method to take full advantage of the contextual information in the images and avoid errors caused by misidentification.
ISSN:2075-5309
2075-5309
DOI:10.3390/buildings12020106