Computer Vision for Civil and Infrastructure Engineering Workshop (CVCIE @ ECCV2022)

Congratulations to the Winner of the Best paper award sponsored by Pallon

Model-Assisted Labeling via Explainability for Visual Inspection of Civil Infrastructures. Klára Janoušková, Mattia Rigotti, Ioana Giurgiu, and Cristiano Malossi.

The paper can be found here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.11159

Schedule – 24th October

Location: Meeting Room 3 – David Intercontinental

9.00am – 9.10am Welcome

9.10am – 9.55am Invited talk: Eric Wolf – CTO at Pallon Ltd. – Title: Computer Vision for the Underworld – Automatically Assessing Sewer Infrastructure

9.55am – 10.15am Oral paper: Towards an Error-free Deep Occupancy Detector for Smart Camera Parking System. Authors: Lam Tung Duong, Duc Van Le, Tien-Cuong Bui, and Thien Hai To

10.15am – 10.35am Oral paper: Improving Object Detection in VHR Aerial Orthomosaics. Authors: Tanguy Ophoff, Kristof Van Beeck, and Toon Goedemé

10.35am – 11.00am Coffee break

11.00am – 11.45am Invited talk: Iro Armeni – Post Doc. at ETH Zurich. – Title: Spatiotemporal Understanding of the Built Environment using Visual Data

11.45am – 12.05pm Oral paper: Model-Assisted Labeling via Explainability for Visual Inspection of Civil Infrastructures. Authors: Klára Janoušková, Mattia Rigotti, Ioana Giurgiu, and Cristiano Malossi

12.05pm – 12.25pm Oral paper: CrackSeg9k: A Collection and Benchmark for Crack Segmentation Datasets and Frameworks. Authors: Shreyas Anand Kulkarni, Shreyas Singh, Dhananjay Balakrishnan, Siddharth Sharma, Saipraneeth Devunuri, and Sai Chowdeswara Rao Korlapati

12.45pm – 1.30pm Lunch break

1.30pm – 2.15pm Invited talk: Shirley Dyke – Professor at Purdue University. – Title: Empowering Disaster Reconnaissance Teams through Artificial Intelligence

2.15pm – 2.45pm Poster spotlights

2.45pm – 4.15pm Poster session and coffee break
Posters can be downloaded here: Posters

4.15pm – 5.00pm Invited talk: Derek Hoiem – Professor at University of Urbana-Champaign Illinois, and CSO at Reconstruct Inc. – Title: Needs, Challenges, and Opportunities for Computer Vision in the Built World

5.00pm – 5.15pm Best paper award sponsored by Pallon Ltd. + goodbye

Poster presentations:

  • Image Illumination Enhancement for Construction Worker Pose Estimation in Low-light Conditions. Xinyu Chen and Yantao Yu
  • PriSeg: IFC-supported Primitive Instance Geometry Segmentation with Unsupervised Clustering. Zhiqi Hu and Ioannis Brilakis
  • Depth Contrast: Self-Supervised Pretraining on 3DPM Images for Mining Material Classification. Prakash Chandra Chhipa, Richa Upadhyay, Rajkumar Saini, Lars Lindqvist, Richard Nordenskjold, Seiichi Uchida, and Marcus Liwicki
  • Facilitating Construction Scene Understanding Knowledge Sharing and Reuse via Lifelong Site Object Detection. Ruoxin Xiong, Yuansheng Zhu, Yanyu Wang, Pengkun Liu, and Pingbo Tang
  • A Hyperspectral and RGB Dataset for Building Façade Segmentation. Nariman Habili, Ernest Kwan, Weihao Li, Christfried Webers, Jeremy Oorloff, Mohammad Ali Armin, and Lars Petersson
  • Active Learning for Imbalanced Civil Infrastructure Data. Thomas Frick, Diego DA Antognini, Mattia Rigotti, Ioana Giurgiu, Benjamin F. Grewe, and A. Cristiano I. Malossi
  • UAV-based Visual Remote Sensing for Automated Building Inspection. Kushagra Srivastava, Dhruv Patel, Aditya Kumar Jha, Mohhit K Jha, Jaskirat Singh, Ravi Kiran Sarvadevabhatla, Harikumar Kandath, Pradeep Kumar Prof Ramancharla, and Madhava Krishna
  • ConSLAM: Periodically Collected Real-World Construction Dataset for SLAM and Progress Monitoring. Maciej Trzeciak, Kacper Pluta, Yasmin Fathy, Lucio Alcalde, Stanley Chee, Antony Bromley, Ioannis Brilakis, and Pierre Alliez
  • NeuralSI: Structural Parameter Identification in Nonlinear Dynamical Systems. Xuyang Li, Hamed Bolandi, Talal Husain Ibrahem Salem, Nizar Lajnef, and Vishnu Boddeti
  • A Geometric-Relational Deep Learning Framework for BIM Object Classification. Hairong Luo, Ge Gao, Han Huang, Ziyi Ke, Cheng Peng, and Ming Gu
  • Generating Construction Safety Observations via CLIP-based Image-language Embedding. Wei Lun Tsai, Jacob J. Lin, and Shang Hsien Hsieh

News

June 28th, 2022: The workshop submission deadlines have been extended!
May 5th, 2022: The workshop submission deadlines have been updated.
April 28th, 2022: It is now possible to submit papers through the CMT webpage.
April 27th, 2022: CVCIE will be a full-day Hybrid workshop!
April 6th, 2022: We are happy to announce that CVCIE will take place at ECCV 2022!

Motivation

Civil and infrastructure engineering are corner stones in modern society, and as the world population continues to grow, the infrastructure and built environment has to keep up. This puts a large burden on the inspection of infrastructure such as bridges, roads, sewerage, buildings etc. Computer vision can be used to enable automating the inspection process and contributing to the built environment by e.g. easy data collection and analysis, which can be used in Building Information Modeling (BIM), as well as navigation in (GPS-denied) environments. Computer vision can also be used to analyze work patterns or detect hazardous situations at e.g. construction sites, where large machinery and humans are in close proximity to each other. There is huge potential for computer vision in many aspects of the civil and infrastructure domain which have yet to be realized.

Call for Papers


The ambition of this workshop is to bring together practitioners and researchers from different disciplines to share ideas and methods on current and future use of computer vision in civil and infrastructure engineering. To this end, we welcome computer vision–based research contributions as well as best-practice contributions focusing on the following (and similar) topics:

  • Computer vision for automated inspection of infrastructures
  • Multi-modal analysis for automated infrastructure inspections
  • Computer vision for Building Information Modeling (BIM)
  • XAI in automated infrastructure inspections
  • Activity recognition in construction sites
  • Event detection in construction sites
  • Safety estimation in construction sites
  • Urban and indoor localization/navigation
  • Comfort assessment in the built environment
  • Alternative sensing for BIM and infrastructure inspections
  • Augmented/virtual reality for civil & infrastructure engineering
  • Datasets and annotations for civil & infrastructure engineering

Important Dates

Submission deadline: July 7, 2022 July 15, 2022 (11:59PM Pacific Time)
Decision notification: July 28, 2022 August 5, 2022
Camera ready deadline: August 10, 2022, August 19, 2022

Submission instructions

Policies and guidelines (same as for ECCV): Link
The review process is confidential and double blind.

Submission: CMT

Accepted papers will be published in the ECCV workshop proceedings.

Best paper award

1000$ sponsored by Pallon Ltd.

Invited speakers

  • Derek Hoiem, Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign anwd Chief Science Officer at Reconstruct Inc
  • Shirley J. Dyke, Professor at Purdue University
  • Iro Armeni, Postdoctoral Researcher at ETH Zurich
  • Eric Wolf, Co-founder at Pallon

Organizers

Joakim Bruslund Haurum, Aalborg University, Denmark
Mingzhu Wang, Loughborough University, UK
Ajmal Mian, University of Western Australia, Australia
Thomas Moeslund, Aalborg University, Denmark