Universitätsbibliothek
Weimar Open Access

V. Steinhage

• Due to technological progress and European standardization (e.g. ISO certification) there is an increasing demand to automate the digital recording of building plans. Currently there are two approaches available: (1) labour-intensive redrawing with digitizing tablets or by screen digitizing, (2) automatic scanning and vectorizing where vectorization generally demands an interactive follow-upDue to technological progress and European standardization (e.g. ISO certification) there is an increasing demand to automate the digital recording of building plans. Currently there are two approaches available: (1) labour-intensive redrawing with digitizing tablets or by screen digitizing, (2) automatic scanning and vectorizing where vectorization generally demands an interactive follow-up treatment due to incomplete or ambigues results. This paper proposes a knowledge-based approach for building plan analysis. The procedure reveals the following processing steps: scanning of the building plan, enhancing the image quality and binarization, extraction of lines, line junctions and character fields, knowledge-based interpretation and grouping of image features to domain specific feature aggregates like door symbols, stair symbols etc., optical character recognition and lexicon-based interpretation of character fields, matching of feature aggregates with dimension sets. First results of a prototype implementation are presented. At last an extension of the approach towards a semantic modeling concept showing a coupling between 3D object modeling and an explict 2D modeling of images and technical drawings is presented…