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3D building reconstruction and thermal mapping in fire brigade operations

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Christian Schönauer,

Emanuel Vonach,

Georg Gerstweiler,

Hannes KaufmannAuthors Info & Claims

AH '13: Proceedings of the 4th Augmented Human International Conference

Pages 202 - 205

https://doi.org/10.1145/2459236.2459271

Published: 07 March 2013 Publication History

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Fire fighting remains a dangerous profession despite many recent technological and organizational measures. Sensors and technical systems can augment the performance of fire fighters to increase safety and efficiency during operation. An important aspect in that context is the awareness of location, structure and thermal properties of the environment.

This paper focuses on the design and development of a mobile system, which can reconstruct a 3d model of a building's interior structure in real-time and fuses the visualization with the image of a thermal camera. In addition the position and viewing direction of the fire fighter within the model is determined and a thermal map can be generated from the gathered data, which could help an operational commander to guide his men during a mission.

First tests with our system in different situations showed good results, being able to reconstruct different larger scenes and create thermal maps thereof.

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3D building reconstruction and thermal mapping in fire brigade operations
1. Computing methodologies
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  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction paradigms
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AH '13: Proceedings of the 4th Augmented Human International Conference

March 2013

254 pages

ISBN:9781450319041

DOI:10.1145/2459236

General Chair:
Albrecht Schmidt
University of Stuttgart, Germany
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Program Chairs:
Andreas Bulling
Max Planck Institute for Informatics Saarbrücken, Germany
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Christian Holz
Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany

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