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Accurate 3D data from indoor environments play a crucial role in construction, indoor navigation, real estate management, and many more applications. Mobile scanning systems, including simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) and mobile devices equipped with LIDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) and modern techniques like Matterport, provide efficient means to create virtual models of measured objects (and even generate point clouds). However, it is essential to note that the quality of these methods often needs...

Due to usage, handling, and improper storage, measuring tapes undergo changes in their condition over time. For this reason, regular inspection is necessary to ensure the desired quality of results, aiming to verify the accuracy of the tape and its usability in practice. During the calibration of measuring tapes, the position of the scale divisions on the tape is evaluated using a device known as a horizontal comparator. This device consists of a linear base on which a carriage with evaluating equipment, in our ca...

Today, point clouds are becoming an increasingly common digital representation of realworld objects. However, the raw point clouds obtained by terrestrial laser scanning (or other methods, e. g., photogrammetry or low-cost sensors) are often noisy with many outliers. Thus, it is necessary to remove the noise and outliers from the point clouds before further processing while preserving the elements of the measured objects in high detail. Moreover, in the case of model creation from point clouds using basic geometri...

BIM (Building Information Modeling) allows the use of a virtual building model throughout the whole life cycle of the building. It is a parametric object-oriented 3D data model of a building, which contains information about structures, elements, and their parameters. The combination of the BIM model with detailed data on the as-built geometry of the building enables an effective geometry check of the structural elements, which leads to in-time intervention in the building process if needed. The requirement of eff...

Building Information Modeling (BIM) is an intelligent 3D model-based process that gives Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) professionals the insight and tools to more efficiently plan, design, construct, and manage buildings and infrastructure. The main vision of BIM is to create true, reliable information of the buildings that are complementary and easily replaceable and made them available to different participants of the construction process. The basic condition for fulfilling this vision is the ...