Main Publications
Vitruvio: Conditional Variational Autoencoder to Generate Building Meshes via Single Perspective Sketches
Alberto Tono, Heyaojing Huang, Ashwin Agrawal, Martin Fischer.
Website | Code | Blog post | Stanford CIFE | Video | Slides | Paper
@article{TONO2024105498,
title = {Vitruvio: Conditional variational autoencoder to generate building meshes via single perspective sketches},
journal = {Automation in Construction},
volume = {166},
pages = {105498},
year = {2024},
issn = {0926-5805},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.autcon.2024.105498},
url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0926580524002346},
author = {Alberto Tono and Heyaojing Huang and Ashwin Agrawal and Martin Fischer},
keywords = {Artificial intelligence, Neural-aided design, Deep generative design, Deep generative modeling, Conditional variational autoencoder, Sketch-based modeling},}
Publications
A. Tono, BIMHOX: The Evolutionary Information Gene, Autodesk University, Las Vegas, 2018
A. Zani, A. Tono, S. Schiavon, et al. Annual Radiation Discomfort: A new climate-based framework for modeling short-wave solar radiation in indoor spaces, IBPSA, Rome, 2019
A. Zani, A. Tono, S. Schiavon et al. , A Simulation-Based Design Analysis for the Assessment of Indoor Comfort Under the Effect of Solar Radiation, Simaud, Atlanta, 2019
A. Tono, A. Zani, H. Tono, "Encoded Memory: Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning in Architecture." Impact of Industry 4.0 on Architecture and Cultural Heritage, edited by Cecilia Maria Bolognesi and Cettina Santagati, IGI Global, 2020, pp. 283-305. https://doi-org.stanford.idm.oclc.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-1234-0.ch012 [Bibtex]
Revit 2020 for Architecture: No Experience Required, Wiley, 2020
A. Tono, M. S. Nigam, S. Fedorova, et al. , Limitations and Review of Geometric Deep Learning Algorithms for Monocular 3D Reconstruction in Architecture, 2020 doi.org/10.3280/oa-686.68 [Bibtex]
S. Fedorova, A. Tono, M. S. Nigam, et al. , Synthetic 3D Data Generation Pipeline for Geometric Deep Learning in Architecture, 2021 10.5194/isprs-archives-XLIII-B2-2021-337-2021 [Bibtex]
G. Nam, M. Khlifi, A. Rodriguez, A. Tono, L. Zhou, P. Guerrero 3D-LDM: Neural Implicit 3D Shape Generation with Latent Diffusion Models, 2022 [Bibtex]
A. Tono, H. Huang, A. Agrawal, M. Fischer, Vitruvio: Conditional Variational Autoencoder to Generate Building Meshes via Single Perspective Sketches, Automation in Construction, submitted in 2022, published in 2024. [Bibtext]
Presentations
Artificial Intelligence in Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC)
University of Illinois | September 2020 | CEE595 AI for Construction: Differentiable Architects
REAACH-ID Symposium | Italy | October 2020 | CompoNET: a geometric deep learning approach in Architecture: Picture2BIM | Github Repository
Google Research | Remote | March 2022 | Vitruvio: sketch to 3D
Autodesk Research | Remote | April 2022 | Vitruvio: sketch to 3D
SCIEN | Stanford, Palo Alto, California | December 2022 | Vitruvio: 3D Building Meshes via Single Perspective Sketches.
HAI | Stanford, Palo Alto, California | February 2023 | Vitruvio: 3D Building Meshes via Single Perspective Sketches.
Stanford University | General Qualifying Exam (GQE) | April 2023 | Sketch to BIM
Poster
Generative AI and Human-Centered AI in the AEC
CIFE Seed Proposal | Stanford, Palo Alto, California | April 2022 | Vitruvio: 3D Building Meshes via Single Perspective Sketches.
SCIEN | Stanford, Palo Alto, California | December 2022 | Vitruvio: 3D Building Meshes via Single Perspective Sketches.
Stanford Generative AI Workshop | Stanford, Palo Alto, California | April 2023 | MondriANN
CIFE Seed Proposal | Stanford, Palo Alto, California | April 2023 | MondriANN
Augmented Reality and Deep Learning in the Design Process
Alberto Tono presented this topic at:
Machine Learning Italia | Rome, Italy | September 2017 | Fuzzy Memory
The American Institute of Architects, AIA SF NEXT | San Francisco, USA | May 2018
San Francisco Computational Design Institute | San Francisco, USA | July 2018
BILT NA Digital Built Environment Institute | Saint Louis, USA | August 2018
ARCV at Google Launchpad | San Francisco, USA | September 2018
BILT EU Digital Built Environment Institute | Ljubljana, Slovenia | October 2018
Google Summit Dev Fest Levante | Bari, Italy | November 2018
Autodesk University | Bimhox and Open Source Panel | 2018
Deep Learning Italia | Rome, Italy | December 2018
AppShow | San Francisco, USA | January 2019 | Augmented Reality Application
BILT Academy Podcast | Virtual | December 2020 | AI in Design
BIMHOX: the evolutionary information genes
Featured at
University of California | Berkeley, USA |October 2018
Articles
Corriere Della Sera: Il Progettista BIM è Full-Digital, Paola Pierotti, pg. 14
Gazzettino: Dreamship
Ingenium: Alberto Tono
Bimportale: Alberto Tono
Autodesk: Alberto Tono and Computational Design Institute