Use of BIM Data as Input and Output for Improved Detection of Lighting Elements in Buildings

This paper introduces a complete method for the automatic detection, identification and localization of lighting elements in buildings, leveraging the available building information modeling (BIM) data of a building and feeding the BIM model with the new collected information, which is key for energy-saving strategies. The detection system is heavily improved from our previous work, with the following two main contributions: (i) a new refinement algorithm to provide a better detection rate and identification performance with comparable computational resources and (ii) a new plane estimation, filtering and projection step to leverage the BIM information earlier for lamps that are both hanging and embedded. The two modifications are thoroughly tested in five different case studies, yielding better results in terms of detection, identification and localization.

Orientation-Constrained System for Lamp Detection in Buildings Based on Computer Vision

Computer vision is used in this work to detect lighting elements in buildings with the goal of improving the accuracy of previous methods to provide a precise inventory of the location and state of lamps. Using the framework developed in our previous works, we introduce two new modifications to enhance the system: first, a constraint on the orientation of the detected poses in the optimization methods for both the initial and the refined estimates based on the geometric information of the building information modelling (BIM) model; second, an additional reprojection error filtering step to discard the erroneous poses introduced with the orientation restrictions, keeping the identification and localization errors low while greatly increasing the number of detections. These~enhancements are tested in five different case studies with more than 30,000 images, with results showing improvements in the number of detections, the percentage of correct model and state identifications, and the distance between detections and reference positions