Golparvar-Fard and colleagues earn Best Peer-Reviewed Paper Award from the 12th International Conference on Construction Applica
Mani Golparvar-Fard, assistant professor in the Charles E. Via,
Jr. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, has received the 2012
Best Peer-Reviewed Paper Award from the 12th International
Conference on Construction Applications of Virtual Reality (CONVR) in Taipei,
Taiwan. The paper, entitled "Enhanced Hybrid 4 Dimensional Augmented
Reality for Ubiquitous Context-Aware AEC/FM Applications," was co-authored
with Prof. Jules White and Prof. Golparvar-Fard’s co-advised PhD student,
Hyojoon Bae of the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at
Virginia Tech.
Golparvar-Fard’s current research focuses on (1) creating and
developing computer vision, image processing, and machine learning methods to
automatically monitor building and construction performance, and reconstruct
as-built 3D/4D building information models from static images as well
as video streams; and (2) building information modeling to reason about
building elements and systems to support model-based assessment of performance
metrics and generate augmented reality visualizations. More information about
Prof. Golparvar-Fard’s research is available at the Real-time and Automated
Monitoring and Control (Raamac) Lab website (http://www.raamac.cee.vt.edu/).
About CONVR: Initiated in 2000, this academic conference focuses
on the fields of Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) which are
forward-looking technologies that offer considerable potential benefits in all
stages of the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) process, from
initial planning and conceptual design to facility management and operations.