Semantic Interior Mapology: A Toolbox For Indoor Scene Description From Architectural Floor Plans
This provides a semi-automatic tool for architects and designers to describe indoor scenes from floor plans, but it is incremental as it builds on existing methods for map conversion and population.
The authors tackled the problem of converting floor plans and room contents into vectorized forms by introducing the Semantic Interior Mapology (SIM) toolbox, which includes tools for tracing layouts and populating objects from 3D scans to generate accurate GeoJSON files for 3D rendering.
We introduce the Semantic Interior Mapology (SIM) toolbox for the conversion of a floor plan and its room contents (such as furnitures) to a vectorized form. The toolbox is composed of the Map Conversion toolkit and the Map Population toolkit. The Map Conversion toolkit allows one to quickly trace the layout of a floor plan, and to generate a GeoJSON file that can be rendered in 3D using web applications such as Mapbox. The Map Population toolkit takes the 3D scan of a room in the building (acquired from an RGB-D camera), and, through a semi-automatic process, populates individual objects of interest with a correct dimension and position in the GeoJSON representation of the building. SIM is easy to use and produces accurate results even in the case of complex building layouts.