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Calculating Shadows with U-Nets for Urban Environments (Short Paper)

Authors Dominik Rothschedl, Franz Welscher , Franziska Hübl , Ivan Majic , Daniele Giannandrea, Matthias Wastian, Johannes Scholz , Niki Popper

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  • Computing methodologies → Neural networks
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  • Neural Net
  • U-Net
  • Residual Net
  • Shadow Calculation

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Abstract

Shadow calculation is an important prerequisite for many urban and environmental analyses such as the assessment of solar energy potential. We propose a neural net approach that can be trained with 3D geographical information and predict the presence and depth of shadows. We adapt a U-Net algorithm traditionally used in biomedical image segmentation and train it on sections of Styria, Austria. Our two-step approach first predicts binary existence of shadows and then estimates the depth of shadows as well. Our results on the case study of Styria, Austria show that the proposed approach can predict in both models shadows with over 80% accuracy which is satisfactory for real-world applications, but still leaves room for improvement.

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Dominik Rothschedl, Franz Welscher, Franziska Hübl, Ivan Majic, Daniele Giannandrea, Matthias Wastian, Johannes Scholz, and Niki Popper. Calculating Shadows with U-Nets for Urban Environments (Short Paper). In 12th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2023). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 277, pp. 63:1-63:6, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.GIScience.2023.63

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Dominik Rothschedl
  • dwh GmbH, Vienna, Austria
Franz Welscher
  • Insitute of Geodesy, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Franziska Hübl
  • Insitute of Geodesy, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Ivan Majic
  • Insitute of Geodesy, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Daniele Giannandrea
  • dwh GmbH, Vienna, Austria
  • Institute of Information Systems Engineering, TU Vienna, Austria
Matthias Wastian
  • dwh GmbH, Vienna, Austria
Johannes Scholz
  • Insitute of Geodesy, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Niki Popper
  • dwh GmbH, Vienna, Austria
  • Institute of Information Systems Engineering, TU Vienna, Austria

Funding

The presented results were obtained within the project PV4EAG (888491) funded by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) https://www.ffg.at/.

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