home.me

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  3D rendering of lifted floorplan

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Inspiration

Detailed floorplans for homes are usually the domain of professional interior designers and architects. Visualising a full size home from just a plan is nigh-impossible for the average consumer. We wanted to see how computer vision and augmented reality could enrich the experiences of designers and homeowners, but in a way that still made sense from a business perspective. The tool had to be easy and fun to use, and provide insight into the building that a floorplan simply cannot provide.

What it does

Captures a hand-drawn or printed floorplan from a piece of paper, and converts it into a 3D house! Places the house back onto the piece of paper using augmented reality.

How I built it

Blood, sweat and tears

Challenges I ran into

Grappling the bridge between computer vision, 3D model manipulation in Python and finally import and app design in Unity.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

Learnt Unity and created a very solid floorplan filtering algorithm with openCV.

What's next for home.me

Better vision techniques and more powerful rendering tools could make the experience a whole lot more immersive. When trex?

Built With

• c#
• flask
• python
• unity
• vuforia