Prof. XUE, Fan
(Frank, 薛帆)

Automatic information gain-guided convergence for refining building design parameters: Enhancing effectiveness and interpretability in simulation-based optimization. Building and Environment.

Open BIM exchange on Blockchain 3.0 virtual disk: A traceable semantic differential transaction approach. Frontiers of Engineering Management.

From 3D pedestrian networks to wheelable networks: An automatic wheelability assessment method for high-density urban areas using contrastive deep learning of smartphone point clouds. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems.

Efficient and accurate assessment of window view distance using City Information Models and 3D Computer Vision. Landscape and Urban Planning.

Sand stiffness variability induced by stochastic distributions of calcite precipitates: a Monte Carlo-DEM study. Acta Geotechnica.

Special Issue on Digital Twin. IEEE Internet Computing.

Benchmarking computer vision models for automated construction waste sorting. Resources, Conservation & Recycling.

Harnessing Geographic Information System and street view imagery for thermal gradient distribution auditing. Urban Climate.

Building decay in Hong Kong: Assessing and mapping building condition index using ChatGPT and airborne point clouds. The 6th International Conference on Civil and Building Engineering Informatics (ICCBEI2025).

System and method for BIM family model retrieval based on building's 3D point cloud features. 基於建築三維點雲特徵的 BIM 族模型搜尋系統與方法.

A novel Building Section Skeleton for compact 3D reconstruction from point clouds: A study of high-density urban scenes. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing.

4D point cloud-based spatial-temporal semantic registration for monitoring mobile crane construction activities. Automation in Construction.

CIM-WV: A 2D semantic segmentation dataset of rich window view contents in high-rise, high-density Hong Kong based on photorealistic city information models. Urban Informatics. Data+Model: 10.25442/hku.24647487

Co-existence of airborne SARS-CoV-2 infection and non-infection in three connected zones of a restaurant. Journal of Hazardous Materials.

Role of Urban Underground-Space development in achieving carbon neutrality: A national-level analysis in China. Engineering.

Digital technologies for construction sustainability: Status quo, challenges, and future prospects. npj Materials Sustainability.

MIVES multi-criteria framework to sustainability index of design for manufacture and assembly. Journal of Civil Engineering and Management.

Remote sensing of 4D point cloud (4DPC) for digital twin construction: A time-dynamic, occlusion-minimized data source exploiting low-cost LiDAR sensors. The 29th International Symposium on Advancement of Construction Management and Real Estate (CRIOCM2024).

The opportunities and challenges of multimodal GenAI in the construction industry: A brief review. The 29th International Symposium on Advancement of Construction Management and Real Estate (CRIOCM2024).

A scan-to-BIM automation paradigm for digital transformation in the AEC industry. The 29th International Symposium on Advancement of Construction Management and Real Estate (CRIOCM2024).

BSS-Indoor: Volumetric wall reconstruction using Building Section Skeleton. The 29th International Symposium on Advancement of Construction Management and Real Estate (CRIOCM2024).

Multi-objective optimization for parametric bamboo-metal mixed scaffolding design in Hong Kong. The 29th International Symposium on Advancement of Construction Management and Real Estate (CRIOCM2024).

A lossy 4D point cloud (4DPC) data compression method for LiDAR surveillance streaming in construction management. The 29th International Symposium on Advancement of Construction Management and Real Estate (CRIOCM2024).

Digital twinning hoisting process of high-rise MiC components based on 4D point cloud and BIM models. The 29th International Symposium on Advancement of Construction Management and Real Estate (CRIOCM2024).

Towards detailed building typology by urban-scale 3D building decomposition. The 1st International Workshop on Remote Sensing Intelligent Mapping (RSIM2024).

Automated indoor pedestrian networks reconstruction from as-built floorplan drawings using LLM and YOLO. The 1st International Workshop on Remote Sensing Intelligent Mapping (RSIM2024).

Real-time modular construction hoisting monitoring method and device based on 4D lidar point cloud and image fusion. 基於 4D 激光雷達點雲和圖像融合的實時模塊建築施工吊裝監控方法和裝置

4D point cloud and tension information-based monitoring device and method for arch rib rotation construction. 基於 4D 點雲和拉力傳感器的鋼拱橋拱肋轉動施工預警和糾偏系統及其方法

Optimization System and Method for multiple Web GPU service configuration based on large foundation model. 基於大模型的多 GPU 網絡服務配置優化方法及優化系統.

A blockchain 3.0 paradigm for digital twins in construction project management. Automation in Construction.

Automatic BIM detailing using deep features of 3D views. Automation in Construction.

Bi-objective analytics of 3D visual-physical nature exposures in high-rise high-density cities. Landscape and Urban Planning.

Integrating automated machine learning and interpretability analysis in architecture, engineering and construction industry: A case of identifying failure modes of reinforced concrete shear walls. Computers in Industry.

Pushing the boundaries of Modular-integrated Construction: A symmetric skeleton grammar-based multi-objective optimization of passive design for energy savings and daylight autonomy. Energy and Buildings.

Building feature-based machine learning regression to quantify urban material stocks: A Hong Kong study. Journal of Industrial Ecology. 🏆

Surface or skeleton? Automatic hierarchical clustering of 3D point clouds of bronze frog drums for heritage digital twins. ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences. (CIPA 2023)

Invigorating AEC education using Minecraft: A case of LiDAR surveying and virtual learning. Proceedings of the 2023 European Conference on Computing in Construction and the 40th International CIB W78 Conference. (EC3+W78 2023)

Towards fully automatic Scan-to-BIM: A prototype method integrating deep neural networks and architectonic grammar. Proceedings of the 2023 European Conference on Computing in Construction and the 40th International CIB W78 Conference (EC3+W78 2023).

4D Point Cloud (4DPC)-driven real-time monitoring of construction mobile cranes. Proceedings of the 2023 European Conference on Computing in Construction and the 40th International CIB W78 Conference (EC3+W78 2023).

A blockchain-based token economic model for incentivizing ESG in the construction industry. Proceedings of the 2023 European Conference on Computing in Construction and the 40th International CIB W78 Conference (EC3+W78 2023).

Efficient assessment of window views in high-rise, high-density urban areas using 3D color City Information Models. Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Computational Urban Planning and Urban Management (CUPUM 2023).

HRHD-HK: A Benchmark Dataset of High-Rise and High-Density Urban Scenes for 3D Semantic Segmentation of Photogrammetric Point Clouds. Proceedings of 2023 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing Challenges and Workshops (ICIP 2023).

Decoding the past: A Genetic Algorithm-based method for extract decorative patterns in Digital Twin Heritages. The 28th International Symposium on Advancement of Construction Management and Real Estate (CRIOCM2023).
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Automated Machine Learning in the smart construction era: Significance and accessibility for industrial classification and regression tasks. The 28th International Symposium on Advancement of Construction Management and Real Estate (CRIOCM2023).

Emerging trends of ESG in the construction sector: A promising pathway to sustainable and responsible development. The 28th International Symposium on Advancement of Construction Management and Real Estate (CRIOCM2023).

Addressing BIM versioning challenges: A blockchain-ready IFC schema extension for semantic change management. The 28th International Symposium on Advancement of Construction Management and Real Estate (CRIOCM2023).

Carbon tracking in the building sector: A ‘cabbage’ framework. Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Construction Applications of Virtual Reality (ConVR2023).

A value stream mapping approach to the identification of lean management opportunities for off-site construction production: A case of reinforced concrete slabs. Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Construction Applications of Virtual Reality (ConVR2023).

Zero-Knowledge Proof for trusted construction management: A preliminary study of adaptive blockchain BIM identity authentication. Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Construction Applications of Virtual Reality (ConVR2023).

E-Inspection System for Offsite Construction Manufacturing and Transport.

Digital Twin-based Quality Control System and Method for Construction Components. 基於數字孿生的建築部件品質控制系統及方法

Web System and Method for Structural Maintenance and Monitoring of Modular-Integrated Construction. 結合web的功能模塊化建築結構維運監管系統及方法.

A room with a view: Automatic assessment of window views for high-rise high-density areas using City Information Models and deep transfer learning. Landscape and Urban Planning.

Role of the built environment in the recovery from Covid-19: Evidence from a GIS-based natural experiment on the city blocks in Wuhan, China. Frontiers in Built Environment.

As-built building information modeling: joint effort of 3D reconstruction and semantic enrichment. Research Companion to Building Information Modeling.

Impact of institutional distance on environmental and social practices in host countries: evidence from international construction companies. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management.

Probable cross-corridor transmission of SARS-CoV-2 due to cross airflows and its control. Building and Environment.

Blockchain technology for projects: a multi-criteria decision matrix. Project Management Journal.

Blockchain-Enabled IoT-BIM Platform for supply chain management in modular construction. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management. 🔥

Using blockchain to improve information sharing accuracy in the onsite assembly of modular construction. Journal of Management in Engineering. 🏆 🏛️ Policy: Asian Development Bank (2024)

A blockchain-based model with an incentive mechanism for cross-border logistics supervision and data sharing in modular construction. Journal of Cleaner Production.

Ontology-based mapping approach for automatic work packaging in modular construction. Automation in Construction.

Estimating construction waste volumes in truck loads using monocular vision. Resources, Conservation and Recycling.

Using computer vision to recognize composition of construction waste mixtures: a semantic segmentation approach. Resources, Conservation and Recycling.

Linking permissioned blockchain to Internet of Things (IoT)-BIM platform for off-site production management in modular construction. Computers in Industry.

When permissioned blockchain meets IoT oracles: An on-chain quality assurance system for off-shore modular construction manufacture. Proceedings of the 1st IEEE Global Emerging Technoloies "GET" Blockchain Forum.

Interactive BIM-based VR: A case study of doors. The 19th International Conference on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering (ICCCBE) 2022.

Applications of 4D Point Clouds (4DPC) in Digital Twin Construction: A SWOT analysis. Proceedings of the 27th International Symposium on Advancement of Construction Management and Real Estate.

Precise urban green volume-enabled building and environment simulation: Sub meter voxel modeling of airborne and handheld three dimensional scans of urban trees. Proceedings of the 27th International Symposium on Advancement of Construction Management and Real Estate.

System and Methods for Quantifying and calculating Window View Openness Indexes. US patent: 63/269,891. CN: 119234216A. PCT: CN2023/077947. HK: HK 62025107938.5. WIPO: 2023/179296

Indoor 3D Barrier-Free Mapping Based on Lidar Point Cloud and BIM Clash Simulation. 基于 LiDAR 點雲和 BIM 碰撞模擬的室內三維無障礙地圖生成方法.

A Cultural Relics Traceability System for Museums. 一種博物館文物可追溯方法及系統.

An Analytics System for Museum Touring Based on BIM and Surveillance Videos. 一種基于 BIM 和視頻監控的博物館參觀分析的方法及系統.

Semantic enrichment of Building and City Information Models: a ten-year review. Advanced Engineering Informatics.

RegARD: Symmetry-based coarse registration of smartphone’s colorful point clouds with CAD drawings for low-cost Digital Twin Buildings. Remote Sensing.

Big data-driven pedestrian analytics: unsupervised clustering and relational query based on Tencent Street View photographs. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information.

Two-layer adaptive blockchain-based supervision model for off-site modular housing production. Computers in Industry.

Handling missing data for construction waste management: machine learning based on aggregated waste generation behaviors. Resources, Conservation & Recycling.

Exploring smart construction objects as blockchain oracles in construction supply chain management. Automation in Construction.

Blockchain technology for governmental supervision of construction work: learning from digital currency electronic payment systems. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management.

Revisiting the effects of prefabrication on construction waste minimization: a quantitative study using bigger data. Resources, Conservation & Recycling.

Federated transfer learning enabled smart work packaging for preserving personal image information of construction worker. Automation in Construction.

Optimization of multiple-crane service schedules in overlapping areas through consideration of transportation efficiency and operational safety. Automation in Construction.

“Looking beneath the surface”: A visual-physical feature hybrid approach for unattended gauging of construction waste composition. Journal of Environmental Management.

Investigating the bulk density of construction waste: A big data-driven approach. Resources, Conservation & Recycling. 🏛️ Policy: EU Joint Research Centre (2024)

Estimation of construction waste composition based on bulk density: a big data-probability (BD-P) model. Journal of Environmental Management.

Estimating construction waste generation in the Greater Bay Area, China using machine learning. Waste Management.

A blockchain- and IoT-based smart product-service system for the sustainability of prefabricated housing construction. Journal of Cleaner Production. 🔥 🏛️ Policy: Government of Finland (2023)

The renaissance of Augmented Reality in construction: history, present status and future directions. Smart and Sustainable Built Environment.

FloorPP-Net: Reconstructing Floor Plans using Point Pillars for Scan-to-BIM. arXiv. 🏆
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Understanding illegal waste dumping behaviours with multi-source big data: visualized evidences from Hong Kong. Proceedings of the 24th International Symposium on Advancement of Construction Management and Real Estate (CRIOCM2019), Springer.

Comparison of BIM collaboration paradigms for digital twin readiness: Centralized files, decentralized clouds, and distributed blockchains. Proceedings of the 38th International Conference of CIB W78.

CIM-enabled quantitative view assessment in architectural design and space planning. Proceedings of the 38th International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction (ISARC2021).

A Review of As-Built BIM Using LiDAR Point Clouds [基於LiDAR點雲的竣工BIM建模文獻綜述]. The 7th National BIM Academic Conference of China.

A study on protocols of cross-chain data synchronization for permission blockchain for construction management. Proceedings of the 26th International Symposium on Advancement of Construction Management and Real Estate

Latent Dirichlet Allocation-based approach for automatically mapping components to tasks in modular construction. Proceedings of the 26th International Symposium on Advancement of Construction Management and Real Estate, 🏆 Merit Paper Award

Prefabrication in Hong Kong’s High-Rise Residential Construction: Evolution and Effect on Waste Minimization. Proceedings of the 26th International Symposium on Advancement of Construction Management and Real Estate

Cloud asset-enabled integrated blockchain platform for prefabricated construction management. Proceedings of the 26th International Symposium on Advancement of Construction Management and Real Estate, Springer, in press. 🏆 Outstanding Paper Award

Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on construction industry: a comparison between Hong Kong and Singapore. Proceedings of the 26th International Symposium on Advancement of Construction Management and Real Estate, 🏆 Merit Paper Award

Smart contract: Is it really smart in construction?. Proceedings of the 26th International Symposium on Advancement of Construction Management and Real Estate

A generic framework for BIM component naming. Proceedings of the 26th International Symposium on Advancement of Construction Management and Real Estate

A 3D Quality Inspection Equipment for Prefabricated Construction Products. 一種裝配式建築產部品三維質量檢測裝置. CN Patent 202120404023.4.

Quick story: A semantic differential transaction approach to minimizing information redundancy for BIM and blockchain integration. Automation in Construction.

Quick story: From LiDAR point cloud towards digital twin city: Clustering city objects based on Gestalt principles. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 🏆Featured Article (of Vol. 167).

Pervasive sensing technologies for facility management: A critical review. Facilities.

Embodied energy in service industry in global cities: A study of six Asian cities. Land Use Policy.

Is the private sector more efficient? Big data analytics of construction waste management sectoral efficiency. Resources, Conservation and Recycling.

Automated mapping from IFC data model to relational database model (IFC数据模型至关系型数据库模型的自动映射). Journal of Tsinghua University (Science and Technology).

An anatomy of waste generation flows in construction projects using passive bigger data. Waste Management.

Construction-oriented Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DfMA) guidelines. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management.

Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DfMA) in construction: The old and the new. Architectural Engineering and Design Management.

Mapping the knowledge domain of stakeholder perspective studies in construction projects: A bibliometric approach. International Journal of Project Management.

Estimating construction waste generation in residential buildings: A fuzzy set theory approach in the Brazilian Amazon. Journal of Cleaner Production.

Digital twinning construction objects: Lessons learned from pose estimation methods. The Joint Conference ICCCBE and CIB W78 2020.

Indoor-outdoor navigation without beacons: Compensating smartphone AR positioning errors with 3D pedestrian network. ASCE Construction Research Congress 2020.

Classification of photo-realistic 3D window views in a high-density city: The case of Hong Kong. Proceedings of the 25th International Symposium on Advancement of Construction Management and Real Estate (CRIOCM2020), Springer, in press. 🏆 Outstanding Paper Award.

Modular construction: design considerations and opportunities. Proceedings of the 25th International Symposium on Advancement of Construction Management and Real Estate (CRIOCM2020), Springer, in press. 🏆 Outstanding Paper Award.

Prospect of architectonic grammar reconstruction from dense 3D point clouds: Historical building information modeling (HBIM) of Guangdong cultural heritages. Proceedings of the 25th International Symposium on Advancement of Construction Management and Real Estate (CRIOCM2020), Springer, in press. 🏆 Merit Paper Award.

Construction inspection information management with consortium blockchain. Proceedings of the 25th International Symposium on Advancement of Construction Management and Real Estate (CRIOCM2020), Springer, in press. 🏆 Merit Paper Award.

Understanding construction waste recycling in Hong Kong: SWOT analysis of the government’s prevailing initiatives. Proceedings of the 25th International Symposium on Advancement of Construction Management and Real Estate (CRIOCM2020), Springer, in press. 🏆 Merit Paper Award.

A review of BIM data exchange method in BIM collaboration. Proceedings of the 25th International Symposium on Advancement of Construction Management and Real Estate (CRIOCM2020), Springer, in press.