TEHRAN (ANA)- A knowledge-based company in Iran has succeeded in designing a smart platform for drawing building maps based on artificial intelligence which completes the six-month process of preparing maps in a few minutes.
“This platform can implement several parts of the process of designing and drawing maps in mid-range residential buildings which include calculation and placement, design, drawing, measuring, drawing sections, drawing four views, meters, estimates and calculations of energy consumption and management,” Reza Babakhani, the founder and director of Architecture and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of the Islamic Azad University’s Science and Research Branch, told ANA on the sidelines of Asr-e Omid event and exhibition in Karaj.
“The process of designing and drawing construction maps is done by artificial intelligence to establish a more important process called digital twin in construction industry,” he added.
“This system can complete the six-month process of preparing maps in less than a few minutes. This product is very special and it does not have similar counterparts in dimensions, precision and process,” Babakhani said.
“Our product can complete the process of mapping in 3 to 4 minutes, and on the other hand, its artificial intelligence system enjoys more capabilities,” he underlined.
The fourth edition of the national Asr-e Omid (age of hope) event in the specialized field of artificial intelligence (AI) and internet of things (IoT) was held at Islamic Azad University’s Karaj branch near Tehran on October 14-17.
In a relevant development last November, an Islamic Azad University student had also produced a bump mapping module using computer techniques.
Saeed Sedighi, a computer architecture engineering student at the IAU-Shiraz Branch, told ANA that the project to produce bump mapping was done for the Iranian Army’s Self Sufficiency Department.
He explained about his project and said that “bump mapping module takes the information from the camera and produces the bump map in real time, which are actually the bumps in that scene”.
“Differences in the image captured in the video frames from the camera and the movements in the scene are also depicted in the bump map module and its information is extracted,” the IAU student added.
Bump mapping is a texture mapping technique in computer graphics for simulating bumps and wrinkles on the surface of an object.
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Source: ANA