TY - GEN
T1 - Virtual tours and augmented reality for direct data integration
AU - Napolitano, Rebecca K.
AU - Liu, Zachary S.
AU - Blyth, Anna C.
AU - Moshirfar, Ameen S.
AU - Glisic, Branko
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, the Council?on?Science?and?Technology,?the?Dean’s? Fund for Innovation, and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Princeton. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program under Grants No. DGE-1656466. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. Opinions, findings, and conclusions from this study are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the research sponsors. Additionally, this work was supported by the USDOT UTC Program (Grant no. CAITUTC-REG13/0615) enabled through the Center for Advanced Infrastructure and Transportation (CAIT) at Rutgers University. We are thankful for fruitful conversations with Wesley Reinhart and Abigail Rettew. Additionally the lighthouse project would not have been possible without Dennis Blyth.
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PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - The symptoms of overdue maintenance and underinvestment in historic infrastructure are ever-present in our society (rated with D+ by American Society of Civil Engineers, ASCE). To ensure the safety of historic and existing structures, on-site inspections are required, and structural health monitoring systems are frequently adopted. While these methods capture large amounts of information about a structure, there is not a comprehensive method for integrating these diverse datasets into a single, intuitive environment for both on- and off-site usage. The objective of this work is to explore two different methodologies for integrating datasets derived from the built environment. The first method, Virtual tours and informational modeling (VTIM), uses spherical panoramas to capture the interior and exterior of the built environment as well as enables a user to access data through on-click conditionals attached to the panoramas. The second method, Image-based documentation and augmented reality (IBDAR), uses a sparse point cloud to capture the built environment for on-site viewing and additionally stores an image at every annotation location to facilitate off-site viewing. Both methods are applied to case studies including a masonry lighthouse in Charleston, SC and a pedestrian bridge in Princeton, NJ. The advantages and disadvantages of each approach are discussed as well as steps for future work are briefly outlined.
AB - The symptoms of overdue maintenance and underinvestment in historic infrastructure are ever-present in our society (rated with D+ by American Society of Civil Engineers, ASCE). To ensure the safety of historic and existing structures, on-site inspections are required, and structural health monitoring systems are frequently adopted. While these methods capture large amounts of information about a structure, there is not a comprehensive method for integrating these diverse datasets into a single, intuitive environment for both on- and off-site usage. The objective of this work is to explore two different methodologies for integrating datasets derived from the built environment. The first method, Virtual tours and informational modeling (VTIM), uses spherical panoramas to capture the interior and exterior of the built environment as well as enables a user to access data through on-click conditionals attached to the panoramas. The second method, Image-based documentation and augmented reality (IBDAR), uses a sparse point cloud to capture the built environment for on-site viewing and additionally stores an image at every annotation location to facilitate off-site viewing. Both methods are applied to case studies including a masonry lighthouse in Charleston, SC and a pedestrian bridge in Princeton, NJ. The advantages and disadvantages of each approach are discussed as well as steps for future work are briefly outlined.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85074452401
T3 - 20th Congress of IABSE, New York City 2019: The Evolving Metropolis - Report
SP - 2204
EP - 2213
BT - 20th Congress of IABSE, New York City 2019
PB - International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE)
T2 - 20th IABSE Congress, New York City 2019: The Evolving Metropolis
Y2 - 4 September 2019 through 6 September 2019
ER -