The rapid technological evolution, which is characterizing all the disciplines involved within th... more The rapid technological evolution, which is characterizing all the disciplines involved within the wide concept of smart cities, becomes a key factor to trigger true user-driven innovation. In this context 3D city models will play an increasingly important role in our daily lives and become an essential part of the modern city information infrastructure (Spatial Data Infrastructure). The goal of this paper is to introduce the i-SCOPE (interoperable Smart City services through an Open Platform for urban Ecosystems) project methodology and implementations together with key technologies and open standards. Based on interoperable 3D CityGML UIMs, the aim of i-Scope is to deliver an open platform on top of which it possible to develop, within different domains, various 'smart city' services. Moreover, in i-SCOPE different issues, transcending the mere technological domain, are being tackled, including aspects dealing with social and environmental issues. Indeed several tasks including citizen awareness, crowd source and voluntary based data collection as well as privacy issue concerning involved people should be considered.
One of the main topics of cities is mobility. Nowadays, Mobile phones can provide navigation inst... more One of the main topics of cities is mobility. Nowadays, Mobile phones can provide navigation instructions in real-time, accessing wireless the Internet so routing and navigation applications on the Internet, in cars or on personal smartphones are everyday tools for many people. The purpose of i-SCOPE project was to deploy, based on new generation urban city model, a set of services to support the improvement of life quality on urban areas. One of these services was a personalized routing service for disabled people.
The rapid technological evolution, which is characterizing all the disciplines involved within th... more The rapid technological evolution, which is characterizing all the disciplines involved within the wide concept of smart cities, becomes a key factor to trigger true user-driven innovation. In this context 3D city models will play an increasingly important role in our daily lives and become an essential part of the modern city information infrastructure (Spatial Data Infrastructure). The goal of this paper is to introduce the i-SCOPE (interoperable Smart City services through an Open Platform for urban Ecosystems) project methodology and implementations together with key technologies and open standards. Based on interoperable 3D CityGML UIMs, the aim of i-Scope is to deliver an open platform on top of which it possible to develop, within different domains, various 'smart city' services. Moreover, in i-SCOPE different issues, transcending the mere technological domain, are being tackled, including aspects dealing with social and environmental issues. Indeed several tasks including citizen awareness, crowd source and voluntary based data collection as well as privacy issue concerning involved people should be considered.
Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on 3D Web Technology - Web3D '13, 2013
ABSTRACT Three dimensional city model is a topic of great interest in the context of the smart ci... more ABSTRACT Three dimensional city model is a topic of great interest in the context of the smart cities. The CityGML standard allows to collect in a unique format a big amount of information regarding the urban scenario, both from the geometric and from the f semantic and descriptive point of view. The chain of processes developed such as the creation, storage in tile and integration with data coming from different sources is quickly described. Greater attention is paid in describing the technique adopted for the streaming of the data from the server to the client, and this is compared with the standard services W3DS, WFS and WVS. Finally, a technique to convert three-dimensional vector model in elevation map is illustrated.
2013 Fourth International Conference on Computing for Geospatial Research and Application, 2013
In recent years, several mobile devices with excellent performances have become accessible to peo... more In recent years, several mobile devices with excellent performances have become accessible to people at affordable prices. The availability of this equipment, especially in the mobile sector, has encouraged research and development of increasingly complex applications ("Apps") for the visualization of large-scale scenes. However, 3D maps typically available through mobile version of so-called "spinning globes" do not allow the use of high definition data, due to their hardware limitations compared to desktop devices. As a result it often happens that a final user is navigating a real life familiar area, without being able to recognize its orography or specific features that are typical of the real world due to the poor resolution of the underlying 3D geometry. This is particularly amplified within mountain areas where crests, ridges and valleys are not adequately represented, due to the low resolution of the underlying digital terrain model, severely limiting the user's experience.
2012 18th International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia, 2012
ABSTRACT The recognition of movements and poses of the body is a subject of fundamental importanc... more ABSTRACT The recognition of movements and poses of the body is a subject of fundamental importance to create simple, new and effective methods of natural interaction between man and machine. The complete understanding of human gesticulation is the crucial base for creating intuitive and easy to use natural interfaces. The main purpose of this paper is to examine the state of the art, illustrating techniques of particular interest for the recognition of stroke, trajectories and 3D or 2D gesture. Moreover, here the implemented methods and techniques used in order to recognize three different types of inputs: simple poses of the hands, fast swipe and complex gestures in 3D space are described. Motion analysis has been made using a depth camera and a skeleton detection algorithm. The complex gestures are compared using an improvement of the technique called Dynamic Time Warping (DTW). This technique was analyzed in a very accurate way, in order to understand which implementation would lead to an effective, reliable and fast recognition of gestures. The results and the implementated methodologies have been accurately exposed and adequately compared.
ISPRS Annals of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, May 2014
The rapid technological evolution, which is characterizing all the disciplines involved within th... more The rapid technological evolution, which is characterizing all the disciplines involved within the wide concept of smart cities, is becoming a key factor to trigger true user-driven innovation. However to fully develop the Smart City concept to a wide geographical target, it is required an infrastructure that allows the integration of heterogeneous geographical information and sensor networks into a common technological ground. In this context 3D city models will play an increasingly important role in our daily lives and become an essential part of the modern city information infrastructure (Spatial Data Infrastructure). The work presented in this paper describes an innovative Services Oriented Architecture software platform aimed at providing smartcities services on top of 3D urban models. 3D city models are the basis of many applications and can became the platform for integrating city information within the Smart-Cites context. In particular the paper will investigate how the efficient visualisation of 3D city models using different levels of detail (LODs) is one of the pivotal technological challenge to support Smart-Cities applications. The goal is to provide to the final user realistic and abstract 3D representations of the urban environment and the possibility to interact with a massive amounts of semantic information contained into the geospatial 3D city model. The proposed solution, using OCG standards and a custom service to provide 3D city models, lets the users to consume the services and interact with the 3D model via Web in a more effective way.
The rapid technological evolution, which is characterizing all the disciplines involved within th... more The rapid technological evolution, which is characterizing all the disciplines involved within the wide concept of smart cities, becomes a key factor to trigger true user-driven innovation. In this context 3D city models will play an increasingly important role in our daily lives and become an essential part of the modern city information infrastructure (Spatial Data Infrastructure). The goal of this paper is to introduce the i-SCOPE (interoperable Smart City services through an Open Platform for urban Ecosystems) project methodology and implementations together with key technologies and open standards. Based on interoperable 3D CityGML UIMs, the aim of i-Scope is to deliver an open platform on top of which it possible to develop, within different domains, various 'smart city' services. Moreover, in i-SCOPE different issues, transcending the mere technological domain, are being tackled, including aspects dealing with social and environmental issues. Indeed several tasks including citizen awareness, crowd source and voluntary based data collection as well as privacy issue concerning involved people should be considered.
One of the main topics of cities is mobility. Nowadays, Mobile phones can provide navigation inst... more One of the main topics of cities is mobility. Nowadays, Mobile phones can provide navigation instructions in real-time, accessing wireless the Internet so routing and navigation applications on the Internet, in cars or on personal smartphones are everyday tools for many people. The purpose of i-SCOPE project was to deploy, based on new generation urban city model, a set of services to support the improvement of life quality on urban areas. One of these services was a personalized routing service for disabled people.
The rapid technological evolution, which is characterizing all the disciplines involved within th... more The rapid technological evolution, which is characterizing all the disciplines involved within the wide concept of smart cities, becomes a key factor to trigger true user-driven innovation. In this context 3D city models will play an increasingly important role in our daily lives and become an essential part of the modern city information infrastructure (Spatial Data Infrastructure). The goal of this paper is to introduce the i-SCOPE (interoperable Smart City services through an Open Platform for urban Ecosystems) project methodology and implementations together with key technologies and open standards. Based on interoperable 3D CityGML UIMs, the aim of i-Scope is to deliver an open platform on top of which it possible to develop, within different domains, various 'smart city' services. Moreover, in i-SCOPE different issues, transcending the mere technological domain, are being tackled, including aspects dealing with social and environmental issues. Indeed several tasks including citizen awareness, crowd source and voluntary based data collection as well as privacy issue concerning involved people should be considered.
Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on 3D Web Technology - Web3D '13, 2013
ABSTRACT Three dimensional city model is a topic of great interest in the context of the smart ci... more ABSTRACT Three dimensional city model is a topic of great interest in the context of the smart cities. The CityGML standard allows to collect in a unique format a big amount of information regarding the urban scenario, both from the geometric and from the f semantic and descriptive point of view. The chain of processes developed such as the creation, storage in tile and integration with data coming from different sources is quickly described. Greater attention is paid in describing the technique adopted for the streaming of the data from the server to the client, and this is compared with the standard services W3DS, WFS and WVS. Finally, a technique to convert three-dimensional vector model in elevation map is illustrated.
2013 Fourth International Conference on Computing for Geospatial Research and Application, 2013
In recent years, several mobile devices with excellent performances have become accessible to peo... more In recent years, several mobile devices with excellent performances have become accessible to people at affordable prices. The availability of this equipment, especially in the mobile sector, has encouraged research and development of increasingly complex applications ("Apps") for the visualization of large-scale scenes. However, 3D maps typically available through mobile version of so-called "spinning globes" do not allow the use of high definition data, due to their hardware limitations compared to desktop devices. As a result it often happens that a final user is navigating a real life familiar area, without being able to recognize its orography or specific features that are typical of the real world due to the poor resolution of the underlying 3D geometry. This is particularly amplified within mountain areas where crests, ridges and valleys are not adequately represented, due to the low resolution of the underlying digital terrain model, severely limiting the user's experience.
2012 18th International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia, 2012
ABSTRACT The recognition of movements and poses of the body is a subject of fundamental importanc... more ABSTRACT The recognition of movements and poses of the body is a subject of fundamental importance to create simple, new and effective methods of natural interaction between man and machine. The complete understanding of human gesticulation is the crucial base for creating intuitive and easy to use natural interfaces. The main purpose of this paper is to examine the state of the art, illustrating techniques of particular interest for the recognition of stroke, trajectories and 3D or 2D gesture. Moreover, here the implemented methods and techniques used in order to recognize three different types of inputs: simple poses of the hands, fast swipe and complex gestures in 3D space are described. Motion analysis has been made using a depth camera and a skeleton detection algorithm. The complex gestures are compared using an improvement of the technique called Dynamic Time Warping (DTW). This technique was analyzed in a very accurate way, in order to understand which implementation would lead to an effective, reliable and fast recognition of gestures. The results and the implementated methodologies have been accurately exposed and adequately compared.
ISPRS Annals of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, May 2014
The rapid technological evolution, which is characterizing all the disciplines involved within th... more The rapid technological evolution, which is characterizing all the disciplines involved within the wide concept of smart cities, is becoming a key factor to trigger true user-driven innovation. However to fully develop the Smart City concept to a wide geographical target, it is required an infrastructure that allows the integration of heterogeneous geographical information and sensor networks into a common technological ground. In this context 3D city models will play an increasingly important role in our daily lives and become an essential part of the modern city information infrastructure (Spatial Data Infrastructure). The work presented in this paper describes an innovative Services Oriented Architecture software platform aimed at providing smartcities services on top of 3D urban models. 3D city models are the basis of many applications and can became the platform for integrating city information within the Smart-Cites context. In particular the paper will investigate how the efficient visualisation of 3D city models using different levels of detail (LODs) is one of the pivotal technological challenge to support Smart-Cities applications. The goal is to provide to the final user realistic and abstract 3D representations of the urban environment and the possibility to interact with a massive amounts of semantic information contained into the geospatial 3D city model. The proposed solution, using OCG standards and a custom service to provide 3D city models, lets the users to consume the services and interact with the 3D model via Web in a more effective way.
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