Fixture-aware Panoramic Ceiling Image Synthesis Using an Omnidirectional Camera

Abstract

The manual creation of a ceiling plan consumes many human resources to confirm the current state of existing buildings for renovation. Identifying the positions and the types of existing fixtures is crucial for drawing a ceiling plan. Therefore, to assist in drawing a ceiling plan, an efficient method that generates a reliable photorealistic whole ceiling surface image is essential. We present a method of fixture-aware panoramic ceiling image synthesis using an omnidirectional camera. A fixture-aware panoramic ceiling image is a photorealistic image that depicts the whole ceiling surface and no seams on ceiling fixtures for its reliability regarding assistance in drawing a ceiling plan. The proposed method is remarkably effortless because it requires the users to work only 2 procedures for synthesizing the image, 1) shooting an omnidirectional video underneath the ceiling and 2) fixture measurement in the image. In the experiment, we evaluated the resulting image for the positional and shape accuracy of the ceiling fixtures and the time efficiency of the measurement. Our proposed method demonstrated a positional accuracy of 2.25 times higher, a shape accuracy of 5.87 times higher, and a time efficiency of the measurement 11.09 times higher than the baseline.