Feasibility of Low-Cost 3D Reconstruction of Small Infrastructure Assets: A Case Study of Fire Hydrants
Publication: Computing in Civil Engineering 2023
ABSTRACT
The fire hydrant is one of the critical infrastructure assets which provide water supply to firefighters during the outbreak of fires. Preventive maintenance of fire hydrants is necessary to inspect them for any damage and assess the need for further maintenance actions to keep the fire hydrants in good condition. However, due to the large number and geographical spread of fire hydrants, the conventional inspection process requires extensive labor and time. Therefore, an automated framework to detect and reconstruct fire hydrants’ three-dimensional (3D) models is proposed in this paper. The automated framework could save time and labor for fire hydrant inspections. Also, the reconstructed 3D fire hydrants models could assist in making maintenance decisions by providing a clear view of fire hydrants. The proposed framework consists of four modules: (1) fire hydrant data collection; (2) fire hydrant detection using computer vision; (3) fire hydrant image cropping; and (4) 3D reconstruction of the fire hydrants. To improve the 3D reconstruction quality, different cropping sizes and the number of images were tested for the fire hydrant 3D reconstruction. The number of points related to fire hydrants is used as the indicator to evaluate 3D reconstruction quality. The findings of this study show that x2 cropping sizes and using 32 images can improve the 3D reconstruction quality.
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Computing in Civil Engineering 2023
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Published online: Jan 25, 2024
ASCE Technical Topics:
- Architectural engineering
- Asset management
- Building management
- Business management
- Case studies
- Construction engineering
- Construction management
- Disaster risk management
- Disasters and hazards
- Engineering fundamentals
- Feasibility studies
- Financial management
- Fires
- Inspection
- Maintenance and operation
- Man-made disasters
- Methodology (by type)
- Models (by type)
- Practice and Profession
- Research methods (by type)
- Three-dimensional models
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