DURAARK
Ujwal Kumar Gadiraju
Camillo Sitte Main works are “an
aesthetic criticism” of 19th century urbanism.
“City Planning according to artistic principles.”
Space Syntax
Built Environment
Form follows function VS Ornamentalism
What do people think about buildings?
• (On the way)/(at) home, work, play.
• Buildings invoke feelings.
• Research has established that buildings shape the built environment.
• Built environment influences various aspects within a community.
Survey: Pursuit of Ground Truth via Crowdsourcing
Building Types
- Skyscrapers
- Bridges
- Churches
- Halls
- Airports
Emerging factors :
- Historic importance
- Affect on/of the surroundings/built environment
- Materials used
- Size of the building/structure
- Personal experiences
- Level of Details
Emerging factors : For example :
- Ease of access to airport
- Efficiency of movement/processing inside airport
- General design & Appearance
Crowdsourcing with Caution
Gold Standard to detect malicious workers or bots.
Images presented with same resolution and dimensions [Chu et al.].
Avoid bias by using images from Wikimedia Commons.
Chu, Wei-Ta, Yu-Kuang Chen, and Kuan-Ta Chen. "Size does matter: how image size affects aesthetic perception?." Proceedings of the 21st ACM international conference on Multimedia. ACM, 2013.
Emerging Influential Factors
Processing pipeline for automated ranking of buildings
Example
Dataset Characteristics
Patterns for well-perceived architectural structures
Some results...
Performance Comparison of different Ranking Models for Halls
Some results...
Performance Comparison of different Ranking Models for Halls
Most well-received architectural styles
Gothic Revival Romanesque Gothic
Visualization-Interactive Map
Resulting Knowledge Base (exposed as public Linked Data)Example: (The Grandmaster's Palace, Malta)