Image Recognition
The AI algorithms for construction of 3D models of buildings, created by the research team led by Dr. Frank Xue at iLab of the Faculty of Architecture, beat competition from the world’s leading universities and won two awards - a gold and a silver - at the 2023 IEEE/ CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). In another category - Scan-to-BIM 2D (where a 3D model is converted to an architectural 2D drawing), the HKU team came second, with Tsinghua-CBIMS team in the first place. Building Information Modelling (BIM) is a technology that architects use to create a complete, and very detailed, digital model of a building. It has made significant break-through in modernizing the construction industry in Hong Kong and beyond. The HKU iLab’s award-winning AI methods are a product of an ongoing ITF project granted by Hong Kong Innovation and Technology Commission (No.ITP/004/23LP), with supervision from Logistics and Supply Chain MultiTech R&D Centre (LSCM) and sponsorship from Paul Y.