A semantic device adapted to images, to assist with the architectural design process.
Résumé :
Abstract:
A lot of research shown that designing an architectural solution requires introducing external references
other than those existing in the design problem. In our case we choose photographic images to illustrate
these references because an image illustrates the graphic part of an architectural concept. For this the
information transmitted by photographic image is often easier to interpret by the designer. To assist the
design process, we are working on the construction of a reference image database where the designer will
find various solutions to his design problem. We have therefore proposed a method for indexing this image
database. The following paper tackles the particular question of semantic meaning applied to architectural
works. More precisely, we present the results obtained through an experiment following the Chi-square
statistic rule, whose objective was to validate the weight associated with the architectural concepts
illustrated according to their visual features in images.