Sou-Han Chen

The University of Hong Kong | HKU · Department of Architecture

[Free PDF:🌐 https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1jIVl3IhXM-Iyn 🌐 until Aug 2024] Existing construction activity-monitoring technologies, such as CCTV cameras and IoT devices, have limitations, such as lack of depth information, 3D measurement errors, or wireless signal vulnerability. The limitations are particularly problematic for activities related to...

[Free PDF:🌐 https://frankxue.com/#publications 🌐] Compact building models are demanded by global smart city applications, while high-definition urban 3D data is increasingly accessible by dint of the advanced reality capture technologies. Yet, existing building reconstruction methods encounter crucial bottlenecks against high-definition data of lar...

[Free PDF:🌐 https://frankxue.com/#publications 🌐] The adoption of virtual reality (VR) in the construction industry provides an immersive experience for users to view and interact with Building information modeling (BIM). However, in the current practice, the VR experience is created manually, which is time-consuming and does not refer to other val...

Mobile cranes are essential equipment in constructionsites due to their high flexibility and mobility. However,the existing sensing or monitoring methods havelimitations in monitoring mobile cranes on sites.Recently, the advent of 4D point cloud (4DPC)technology with a unique spatial-temporal data structurehas shown potential in addressing these is...

[Free PDF:🌐 https://frankxue.com/#publications 🌐] Building information modeling (BIM) detailing, the process of adding the level of graphical and non-graphical details, is required in many BIM stages and applications; however, manual BIM detailing is a resource-intensive and costly process. This study proposes an automatic BIM detailing method base...