Automatic 3D Urban Installation Generation in Virtual Cities

Alomia, Gustavo; Luo, Xun; Zúñiga, Claudia; Cadavid, Andrés Navarro; Lozano-Garzón, Carlos

doi:10.1109/icvrv47840.2019.00052

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“…Efforts concerning modelling of elements representing natural environment are often limited to water and terrain, only a few focus on forest or vegetation. For example, Alomia et al (2019) discuss the development of an automatic and procedural pipeline for the generation of 3D buildings and visualization in a visualization software. The authors apply a similar approach of generating LOD1 buildings as described above, overlaid on a 3D terrain.…”

Section: Introduction 11 Backgroundmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Other scholars, e.g., Zhang et al (2017) developed optimization approaches for rendering vegetation and tested for efficacy using the 3D computer graphics game engine Unreal Engine (UE). However, Alomia et al (2019) and Zhang et al (2017) do not address realistic visualization and representation of vegetation in their workflow. There are a few studies that concentrate on realism for vegetation representation.…”

Section: Introduction 11 Backgroundmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Procedural Digital Twin Generation for Co-Creating in Vr Focusing on Vegetation

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Somanath²,

Hollberg³

2022

Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.

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Abstract. An early-stage development of a Digital Twin (DT) in Virtual Reality (VR) is presented, aiming for civic engagement in a new urban development located in an area that is a forest today. The area is presently used for recreation. For the developer, it is important both to communicate how the new development will affect the forest and allow for feedback from the citizen. High quality DT models are time-consuming to generate, especially for VR. Current model generation methods require the model developer to manually design the virtual environment. Furthermore, they are not scalable when multiple scenarios are required as a project progresses. This study aimed to create an automated, procedural workflow to generate DT models and visualize large-scale data in VR with a focus on existing green structures as a basis for participatory approaches. Two versions of the VR prototype were developed in close cooperation with the urban developer and evaluated in two user tests. A procedural workflow was developed for generating DT models and integrated into the VR application. For the green structures, efforts focused on the vegetation, such as realistic representation and placement of different types of trees and bushes. Only navigation functions were enabled in the first user test with practitioners (9 participants). Interactive functions were enabled in the second user test with pupils (age 15, 9 participants). In both tests, the researchers observed the participants and carried out short reflective interviews. The user test evaluation focussed on the perception of the vegetation, general perception of the VR environment, interaction, and navigation. The results show that the workflow is effective, and the users appreciate green structure representations in VR environments in both user tests. Based on the workflow, similar scenes can be created for any location in Sweden. Future development needs to concentrate on the refinement of buildings and information content. A challenge will be balancing the level of detail for communication with residents.

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Section: Introduction 11 Backgroundmentioning

confidence: 99%