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Seamless Indoor/Outdoor Marker-Less Augmented Reality Registration Supporting Facility Management Operations

  • Leonardo Messi
  • Francesco Spegni
  • Massimo Vaccarini
  • Alessandra Corneli
  • Leonardo Binni

Augmented reality (AR) still struggles to be widely used in real processes in the construction industry despite its great potential. This is partly due to the difficulties that exist in aligning holograms and maintaining their stability, especially for outdoor applications. In addition, being indoor-outdoor interactions crucial for built environment management, it would be important that AR apps can work seamlessly. Alignment in indoor environments cannot make use of methods such as GNSS, nor can all environments be assumed to have been previously initialized with AR tools. Thus, marker-less AR registration is crucial for indoor applications. This paper presents an approach for marker-less AR registration seamlessly in both outdoor and indoor environments. Real-time kinematic positioning (RTK) and Inertial Measurement Units (IMU) technologies have been chosen for outdoor registration, while image comparison based on convolutional neural networks (CNN) for indoor registration. In this research, the application of these two technologies and their integration have been studied and tested on site on a real Facility Management use case related to a university campus. The proposed approach has shown very promising results in displaying BIM elements of the electrical system seamlessly superimposed through AR to their physical counterparts in mixed indoor-outdoor environments

  • Keywords:
  • Augmented Reality,
  • Seamless Registration,
  • Feature Matching,
  • Pose Estimation,
  • Real-Time Kinematic,
  • Facility Management,
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Leonardo Messi

Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0003-4714-7758

Francesco Spegni

Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0003-3632-3533

Massimo Vaccarini

Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0001-9305-5956

Alessandra Corneli

Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0002-0380-9353

Leonardo Binni

Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy

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Chapter Title

Seamless Indoor/Outdoor Marker-Less Augmented Reality Registration Supporting Facility Management Operations

Authors

Leonardo Messi, Francesco Spegni, Massimo Vaccarini, Alessandra Corneli, Leonardo Binni

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10.36253/979-12-215-0289-3.11

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2023

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CONVR 2023 - Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Construction Applications of Virtual Reality

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Managing the Digital Transformation of Construction Industry

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Pietro Capone, Vito Getuli, Farzad Pour Rahimian, Nashwan Dawood, Alessandro Bruttini, Tommaso Sorbi

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