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Supporting the Automatic Extraction of HBIM Elements from Point Clouds

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The purpose of this paper is just detailing a state-of-the-art procedure for the automatic recognition of specific 3D shapes from point clouds of immovable heritage assets supported on a tailored tool using PLY, PTX and PTS formats as input files. To make this tool functional and widely used, it is currently developed as a plug-in for the well-known and representative REVIT BIM software package.

The procedure is particularly applied to the Castle of Torrelobatón (Valladolid, Spain) to allow the automation in cataloguing of required elements, as illustrative example of the defensive architecture from the Middle age to the Renaissance in Europe, reason why it is one of the pilot sites of the INCEPTION project. Thus the HBIM process is enhanced, which is continuing right through to provide better services to technicians, scholars and citizens.

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    LEICA CloudWorx for REVIT: https://leica-geosystems.com/products/laser-scanners/software/leica-cloudworx/leica-cloudworx-revit.

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This work is partially INCEPTION project (Inclusive cultural heritage in Europe through 3D semantic modelling), funded from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 665220.

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Cembranos, J.R., Fernández, J.L., Lerones, P.M., Bermejo, J.G.G., Casanova, E.Z., Ioannides, M. (2018). Supporting the Automatic Extraction of HBIM Elements from Point Clouds. In: Ioannides, M., et al. Digital Heritage. Progress in Cultural Heritage: Documentation, Preservation, and Protection. EuroMed 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11197. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01765-1_1

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