Structurally describing the portrayal-related information by using a standalone Digital Cartographic Model on top of a Digital Landscape Model has been proved applicable and beneficial for 2D mapping but has not yet been applied to 3D cadastre. This...
Dynamic deformation measurement (DDM) is critical across infrastructure and industrial applications. Among various advanced techniques, multi-camera digital image correlation (MC-DIC) stands out due to its ability to achieve wide-range, full-field, a...
Actual construction errors and accumulated damage seriously affect the spatial structural form of the tensile membrane structure, making it difficult to characterize the full-life spatial form of the physical tensile membrane structure based on the o...
Background and Objectives: The ever more complex modern dental education requires permanent adaptation to expanding medical knowledge and new advancements in digital technologies as well as intensification of interdisciplinary collaboration. Our stud...
Nowadays, many museums publish virtual versions of the artifacts they keep in their collections in different 3D model viewers available on the Internet. However, despite the wide experience that some of them have in this field, it is still possible t...
Increasing urbanisation has inevitably led to the continuous construction of buildings. Urban expansion and densification processes reshape cities and, in particular, the third dimension (3D), thus calling for a technical shift from 2D to 3D for prop...
(1) Background: The objective of this study was to assess which digitization method produces the biggest deviation in the 3D images of tooth size from plaster models made using alginate impressions, which are considered the gold standard in orthodont...
Creating a digital 3D model of museum artefacts has been a common practice for many years. Such models can be used for archiving, research, and marketing purposes, as well as to counteract various types of exclusion. A digital copy created using prof...
Digital objects are now pervasively used across the heritage sciences, often as 3D models. However, the theoretical discussion of what these objects are, ontologically speaking, can be diverse, ranging, and inconclusive. This paper will focus on the...
Over recent decades, various projects—especially at the European level—have developed platforms for storing 2D and 3D digital models of cultural heritage. These platforms aim to preserve, organise, and make heritage data accessible for re...
A digital surface model (DSM) provides the geometry and structure of an urban environment with buildings being the most prominent objects in it. Built-up areas change with time due to the rapid expansion of cities. New buildings are being built, exis...
Underwater photogrammetry has been increasingly used in coral-reef research in recent years. Habitat metrics extracted from resulting three-dimensional (3D) reconstructions can be used to examine associations between the structural complexity of the...
In this study, a hierarchical method for segmenting buildings in a digital surface model (DSM), which is used in a novel framework for 3D reconstruction, is proposed. Most 3D reconstructions of buildings are model-based. However, the limitations of t...
Digital twin technology significantly enhances construction site management efficiency; however, dynamically reconstructing site activities presents a considerable challenge. This study introduces a methodology that leverages camera data for the 3D r...
Three-dimensional indoor models have wide applications in fields such as indoor navigation, civil engineering, virtual reality, and so on. With the development of LiDAR technology, automatic reconstruction of indoor models from point clouds has gaine...
The growing interest in building data management, especially the building information model (BIM), has significantly influenced urban management, materials supply chain analysis, documentation, and storage. However, the integration of BIM into 3D GIS...
We compared three methods for deriving communication viewsheds, which indicate the coverage areas for transmitter points from high-resolution digital surface models. Communication viewsheds were analyzed with a novel 3D Fresnel zone method, as well a...
Cities, and in particular those in coastal low-lying areas, are becoming increasingly susceptible to climate change, the impact of which is worsened by the tendency for population concentration in these areas. Therefore, comprehensive early warning s...
The pharmaceutical industry is set to join the fourth industrial revolution with the 3D printing of medicines. The application of 3D printers in compounding pharmacies will turn them into digital pharmacies, wrapping up the telemedicine care cycle an...
The acquisition of high-quality three-dimensional (3D) models of cultural relics often relies on expensive scanning equipment or multi-view image capture, which limits large-scale deployment in real-world heritage conservation scenarios. Large-scale...
The combination of lidar and digital photography provides a new technology for creating a high-resolution 3D digital outcrop model. The digital outcrop model can accurately and conveniently depict the surface 3D properties of an outcrop profile, maki...
To clarify the copyrights of 3D models of oblique photography (3DMOP) and guarantee their security, a novel security protection scheme of 3DMOP was proposed in this study by synergistically applying digital watermarking and data encryption. In the pr...
A digital surface model (DSM) is an important geospatial infrastructure used in various fields. In this paper, we deal with how to improve the quality of DSMs generated from stereo image matching. During stereo image matching, there are outliers due...
For many historic engineering structures, including early 20th-century truss bridges, no comprehensive technical documentation has survived, making them highly vulnerable to irreversible loss. This study addresses this challenge by developing and tes...
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Additive manufacturing, in combination with virtual surgery planning, leads to the predictability of complex surgical cases. To guarantee patient safety, three-dimensional (3D) print quality must be ensured and verified. The aim of this study is to c...
Recent advances in digital technologies are transforming the production and visualization of 3D models for Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), and cultural heritage reconstruction. Within this evolving context, ensuring scientifically groun...
The advances of remote sensing techniques allow for the generation of dense point clouds to detect detailed surface changes up to centimeter/millimeter levels. However, there is still a need for an easy method to derive such surface changes based on...
Lung cancer still has one of the highest morbidity and mortality rates among all types of cancer. Its incidence continues to increase, especially in developing countries. Although the medical field has witnessed the development of targeted therapies,...
To improve the informatization construction and intelligent decision-making level of river and lake basin management, the water quality of a digital twin basin was considered as the starting point and a water quality evaluation platform for Chuanchen...
Digital technologies are undergoing comprehensive integration across diverse domains and processes of the human economy, politics, culture, society, and ecological civilization. This integration brings forth novel concepts, formats, and models. In th...
This paper presents the development of a 3D digital model of end-of-service-life buildings to facilitate a step change in preparation of pre-demolition protocols that can eliminate problems of inadequate documentation and extensive time spent in prep...
Digital transformation projects have been undertaken in the land transportation and railway industries, including the introduction of various smart construction technologies. With the expansion of policies to increase the share of railway transportat...
This study aimed to assess the accuracy of a method of predicting post-movement root position during orthodontic treatment using a 3D digital crown/root model (3DCRM) created with pre-movement records of both cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) and...
In this work, we introduce an end-to-end workflow for very high-resolution satellite-based mapping, building the basis for important 3D mapping products: (1) digital surface model, (2) digital terrain model, (3) normalized digital surface model and (...
This study presents a safety management model for hydrogen refueling stations, integrating digital twin technology and artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance operational safety. Given the risks associated with high-pressure gas handling and potentia...
This study discusses the development of a software-centered EdTech (Education Technology) class model via the implementation of a course titled “3D Time Machine” at a 4-year university in the Republic of Korea over two semesters. The cour...
The result of the multidisciplinary collaboration of researchers from different areas of knowledge to validate a solar radiation model is presented. The MAPsol is a 3D local-scale adaptive solar radiation model that allows us to estimate direct, diff...
As education embraces digital transformation, integrating AI into pedagogy is increasingly important. One promising innovation is AI-generated 3D models, which help visualize complex concepts, enhance spatial reasoning, and foster creativity. Unlike...
Digital Twins for cultural heritage buildings commonly depend on high-fidelity 3D scanning, detailed onsite surveys, and unrestricted data acquisition. In many countries, however, legal, regulatory, and conservation constraints render such methods in...
Pipeline filling and emptying are critical hydraulic procedures involving transient two-phase air–water interactions, which can cause pressure surges and structural risks. Traditional Digital Twin models rely on one-dimensional (1D) approaches,...
Real-scene 3D digital campuses are essential for improving the accuracy and effectiveness of spatial data representation, facilitating informed decision-making for university administrators, optimizing resource management, and enriching user engageme...
In line with the research objectives of the SCORPiò-NIDI project, we aim to implement a software platform showcasing the digital models developed during the project. The goal is to develop dynamic and interactive user experiences, expanding ac...
Digital 3D modelling and visualization technologies have been widely applied to support research in the humanities since the 1980s. Since technological backgrounds, project opportunities, and methodological considerations for application are widely d...
This article is devoted to the issues of processing and analysis of heterogeneous information related to the functioning of mining transport equipment, which becomes available for analysis within the framework of modern technological operations contr...
Digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) is a highly promising 3D imaging modality for breast diagnosis. Tissue overlapping is a challenge with traditional 2D mammograms; however, since digital breast tomosynthesis can obtain three-dimensional images, tiss...
Dental professionals face an increased risk of exposure to biological fluids, aerosols, and droplets due to close patient contact, which heightens the risk of infectious diseases. Rubber dam, commonly used in dentistry, not only isolates treatment ar...
Timely and accurate urban change detection is vital for sustainable urban development, infrastructure management, and disaster response. Traditional two-dimensional approaches often overlook vertical and structural variations in dense urban areas. Th...
This study compared the precision of extracting mesio-distal tooth size of each participant, from plaster models, digital models, and by scanning plaster models using the iTero Element 5D Plus scanner. Ten participants were included in the study. Des...
Numerous digital media repositories have been set up during recent decades, each containing plenty of data about historic cityscapes. In contrast, digital 3D reconstructions of no longer extant cityscapes have so far almost solely been performed for...
The study proposes a methodological integration of machine vision and image processing based on color-based object detection. The primary goal of the study is to use the color vision method to simplify the process of transforming real objects into 3D...
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