<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="https://communities.bentley.com/cfs-file/__key/system/syndication/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Stéphane Côté's Blog - All Comments</title><link>/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stephanecotes_blog</link><description /><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>Telligent Community 12</generator><item><title>RE: Augmenting Drone Videos could Facilitate Construction Monitoring</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stephanecotes_blog/posts/augmenting-drone-videos-could-facilitate-construction-monitoring</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2019 09:44:08 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:6b4c0ddf-b12e-47d4-88c9-8d12984d6b35</guid><dc:creator>Frank Su</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><description>&lt;p&gt;Hi St&amp;eacute;phane,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;very interesting topic!&lt;br /&gt;Since years we are looking for a solution which allow us to simulate our stadium/bridge project with&amp;nbsp;&amp;#39;birds eye&amp;#39;. Unfortunately without success!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;there is a solution from Fologram (based on Microsoft Hololens) which works fine for us, but the head mounted display is limited on the site, meaning we can&amp;#39;t go up to +30m or &amp;#39;flying&amp;#39; through a river to observing the future project we are processing.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;When you said:&amp;nbsp;&amp;#39;aligned the resulting mesh with a BIM model of our building&amp;#39; to get&amp;nbsp;the calculated positions &amp;amp; orientations of each frame.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I am curiously with what software&amp;nbsp;you deal with position calculation and alignment?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Frank&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="https://communities.bentley.com/aggbug?PostID=271395&amp;AppID=5035&amp;AppType=Weblog&amp;ContentType=0" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Using the HoloLens for accurate subsurface utility pipes augmented reality</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stephanecotes_blog/posts/using-the-hololens-for-accurate-subsurface-utility-pipes-augmented-reality</link><pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2018 17:21:10 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:74fad2d5-e04a-48f1-97d4-9e0351c8386b</guid><dc:creator>StephaneCote</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><description>&lt;p&gt;Of course a stable augmentation is not enough - we also have to make sure it is displayed at the right place.&amp;nbsp; But we did not use GPS - it would not have been sufficiently accurate.&amp;nbsp; The alignment phase is based on the pre-capture of the environment using a photo camera, and we use those photos to create a 3D mesh using Bentley Context Capture.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;The pipe map&amp;nbsp;was manually&amp;nbsp;aligned with that mesh (based on&amp;nbsp;visible surface features&amp;nbsp;such as manholes, valve access covers, drains) and projected onto the mesh - that phase&amp;nbsp;provided the georeference that the GPS would normally have provided - but here it was much more accurate.&amp;nbsp; On site, the 3D mesh was then manually aligned with the physical world&amp;nbsp;by selecting common control points (e.g. aligning doors, lights, etc.).&amp;nbsp; Then the mesh was &amp;quot;turned off&amp;quot;, leaving only the pipe augmentations.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Would that sort of augmentation be useful to you?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="https://communities.bentley.com/aggbug?PostID=272464&amp;AppID=5035&amp;AppType=Weblog&amp;ContentType=0" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Using the HoloLens for accurate subsurface utility pipes augmented reality</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stephanecotes_blog/posts/using-the-hololens-for-accurate-subsurface-utility-pipes-augmented-reality</link><pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2018 16:27:55 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:74fad2d5-e04a-48f1-97d4-9e0351c8386b</guid><dc:creator>Carolin Koehler</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><description>&lt;p&gt;Really nice project. Did you use GPS to display the objects at specific points?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="https://communities.bentley.com/aggbug?PostID=272464&amp;AppID=5035&amp;AppType=Weblog&amp;ContentType=0" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Augmenting Drone Videos could Facilitate Construction Monitoring</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stephanecotes_blog/posts/augmenting-drone-videos-could-facilitate-construction-monitoring</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2016 18:36:13 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:6b4c0ddf-b12e-47d4-88c9-8d12984d6b35</guid><dc:creator>Douglas Miranda</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><description>&lt;p&gt;very interesting job!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;img src="https://communities.bentley.com/aggbug?PostID=271395&amp;AppID=5035&amp;AppType=Weblog&amp;ContentType=0" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Augmenting Drone Videos could Facilitate Construction Monitoring</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stephanecotes_blog/posts/augmenting-drone-videos-could-facilitate-construction-monitoring</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2016 18:09:58 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:6b4c0ddf-b12e-47d4-88c9-8d12984d6b35</guid><dc:creator>StephaneCote</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><description>&lt;p&gt;Ron, &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;thanks for the link! &amp;nbsp;Indeed very interesting use of the software. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Stéphane&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;img src="https://communities.bentley.com/aggbug?PostID=271395&amp;AppID=5035&amp;AppType=Weblog&amp;ContentType=0" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Augmenting Drone Videos could Facilitate Construction Monitoring</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stephanecotes_blog/posts/augmenting-drone-videos-could-facilitate-construction-monitoring</link><pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2016 22:41:54 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:6b4c0ddf-b12e-47d4-88c9-8d12984d6b35</guid><dc:creator>Ron Jones</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><description>&lt;p&gt;Hi Stéphane,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I really liked your article. It reminds me of a 2013 roundabout project I worked on and submitted to the BE awards that year. I used Syntheyes to motion track and stabilize a video we shot from a helicopter. SynthEyes calculated the camera positions for the video and exported a MicroStation script file (.msa). I then imported this script into our MicroStation model of the roundabout and produced an animation that contrasts the existing intersection with the proposed roundabout by transition between the two. It really highlighted some of the benefits of roundabouts over traditional signalized intersections. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Below are links to the BE Inspired project and the animation. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.yearininfrastructure-digital.com/yearininfrastructure/2013?pg=173"&gt;www.yearininfrastructure-digital.com/.../2013&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://youtu.be/p_w_CXqHMh4"&gt;https://youtu.be/p_w_CXqHMh4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;img src="https://communities.bentley.com/aggbug?PostID=271395&amp;AppID=5035&amp;AppType=Weblog&amp;ContentType=0" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Augmented reality for building construction and maintenance: augmenting with 2D drawings</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stephanecotes_blog/posts/augmented-reality-for-building-construction-and-maintenance-augmenting-with-2d-drawings</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 Nov 2013 02:31:32 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:bb6b8005-5ba9-4027-8383-124d9de9a91f</guid><dc:creator>StephaneCote</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><description>&lt;p&gt;DavidG, you are right... &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Actually the first part of the video is a simulation - it would have actually cost us a flight to Kentucky just to show that guy with the helmet at the right location with respect to the rest of the video. &amp;nbsp;So we decided to simulate it. &amp;nbsp;It does not change anything about the augmentation part, though.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;img src="https://communities.bentley.com/aggbug?PostID=220874&amp;AppID=5035&amp;AppType=Weblog&amp;ContentType=0" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Augmented reality for building construction and maintenance: augmenting with 2D drawings</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stephanecotes_blog/posts/augmented-reality-for-building-construction-and-maintenance-augmenting-with-2d-drawings</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 Nov 2013 23:34:27 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:bb6b8005-5ba9-4027-8383-124d9de9a91f</guid><dc:creator>DavidG</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><description>&lt;p&gt;Looks like Augmented Location too. &amp;nbsp;The guy with the phone isn&amp;#39;t even looking at the same building the video shows.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;img src="https://communities.bentley.com/aggbug?PostID=220874&amp;AppID=5035&amp;AppType=Weblog&amp;ContentType=0" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Exploring Augmented Reality for Construction</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stephanecotes_blog/posts/exploring-augmented-reality-for-construction</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 Nov 2013 03:16:14 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:c4a25d56-224e-4ac2-b3ff-fc369e596de3</guid><dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><description>&lt;p&gt;Hi! Great article. In my experience the construction industry (certainly in the UK) is slow to take up new technologies but once it does it becomes the norm very quickly. We have developed our own AR app for designers and architects to show their customers their designs in the actual environment in real time - please have a look here &lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://www.pinnaclevl.com/eyesee.htm"&gt;www.pinnaclevl.com/eyesee.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The future is ahead of us, I swear we are catching it up though! &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Best wishes&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Simon&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;img src="https://communities.bentley.com/aggbug?PostID=247898&amp;AppID=5035&amp;AppType=Weblog&amp;ContentType=0" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Augmented reality for building construction and maintenance: augmenting with 2D drawings</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stephanecotes_blog/posts/augmented-reality-for-building-construction-and-maintenance-augmenting-with-2d-drawings</link><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jul 2013 10:41:32 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:bb6b8005-5ba9-4027-8383-124d9de9a91f</guid><dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><description>&lt;p&gt;this is really very helpful article. &amp;nbsp;I go through this site really very nice information.thank for sharing such a nice information.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I read your post and it contains very useful information.Thanks for this useful article&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;img src="https://communities.bentley.com/aggbug?PostID=220874&amp;AppID=5035&amp;AppType=Weblog&amp;ContentType=0" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Exploring Augmented Reality for Construction</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stephanecotes_blog/posts/exploring-augmented-reality-for-construction</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2013 15:27:51 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:c4a25d56-224e-4ac2-b3ff-fc369e596de3</guid><dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><description>&lt;p&gt;And don&amp;#39;t forget this amazing controller,:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="https://www.leapmotion.com/product"&gt;www.leapmotion.com/product&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; I will try it as it will come available&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;img src="https://communities.bentley.com/aggbug?PostID=247898&amp;AppID=5035&amp;AppType=Weblog&amp;ContentType=0" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Exploring Augmented Reality for Construction</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stephanecotes_blog/posts/exploring-augmented-reality-for-construction</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2013 01:52:56 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:c4a25d56-224e-4ac2-b3ff-fc369e596de3</guid><dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><description>&lt;p&gt;Excellent example on the video Stephane! &amp;nbsp;AR enables one to experience virtual spaces and merge them into reality. &amp;nbsp;It enhances our perception of the world and provides an interface to complex systems. &amp;nbsp;When we expand our perceptual awareness, we make better decisions. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Our engineers will be able to access all types of information and experiences anywhere, anytime. &amp;nbsp;We have been able to apply it to projects of various disciplines, from communicating lighting design concepts to traffic and pedestrian simulations. &amp;nbsp;Traditionally, this has been visualized using renderings, animations, etc. &amp;nbsp;The future is what you showed here on your demonstration! Can you see OSHA AR safety glasses in the near future? &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I’ve seen tools that integrate visual simultaneous localization and mapping. &amp;nbsp;Having a system that engaged could nail down that tracking and occlusion issue you see in your video. &amp;nbsp;There’s a bright big beautiful tomorrow! &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;-Anthony &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Arup&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;img src="https://communities.bentley.com/aggbug?PostID=247898&amp;AppID=5035&amp;AppType=Weblog&amp;ContentType=0" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Augmented reality for building construction and maintenance: augmenting with 2D drawings</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stephanecotes_blog/posts/augmented-reality-for-building-construction-and-maintenance-augmenting-with-2d-drawings</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2012 20:46:06 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:bb6b8005-5ba9-4027-8383-124d9de9a91f</guid><dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><description>&lt;p&gt;Where can I find more real world application of this. &amp;nbsp;Very interested in the augmented reality in the construction industry.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Thanks&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;img src="https://communities.bentley.com/aggbug?PostID=220874&amp;AppID=5035&amp;AppType=Weblog&amp;ContentType=0" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Augmented reality for building construction and maintenance: augmenting with 2D drawings</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stephanecotes_blog/posts/augmented-reality-for-building-construction-and-maintenance-augmenting-with-2d-drawings</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2012 01:12:18 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:bb6b8005-5ba9-4027-8383-124d9de9a91f</guid><dc:creator>StephaneCote</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><description>&lt;p&gt;Want to read more about media fusion, drawings, and 3D models? &amp;nbsp;Make sure you read Rob Snyder&amp;#39;s post on the subject, at: &lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/rob_snyders_blog/archive/2012/09/12/a-frontier-in-visual-communication.aspx"&gt;communities.bentley.com/.../a-frontier-in-visual-communication.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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