Automatic structural scene digitalization

PLoS One. 2017 Nov 17;12(11):e0187513. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0187513. eCollection 2017.

Abstract

In this paper, we present an automatic system for the analysis and labeling of structural scenes, floor plan drawings in Computer-aided Design (CAD) format. The proposed system applies a fusion strategy to detect and recognize various components of CAD floor plans, such as walls, doors, windows and other ambiguous assets. Technically, a general rule-based filter parsing method is fist adopted to extract effective information from the original floor plan. Then, an image-processing based recovery method is employed to correct information extracted in the first step. Our proposed method is fully automatic and real-time. Such analysis system provides high accuracy and is also evaluated on a public website that, on average, archives more than ten thousands effective uses per day and reaches a relatively high satisfaction rate.

MeSH terms

  • Automation*
  • Computer-Aided Design*
  • Image Processing, Computer-Assisted*

Grants and funding

This study was supported by a grant from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) to Darren Cosker (grant no. EP/M023281/1). Kujiale.com provided support in the form of salary to Rui Tang. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.