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Calculating Shadows with U-Nets for Urban Environments (Short Paper)
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Franz Welscher 
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Franziska Hübl ,
Ivan Majic ,
Johannes Scholz ,
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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
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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- U-Net
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