7. Release Notes

7.1. Major Version 3

Warning

The major version number was increased from 2 to 3 as changes were made to input and output formats of BRAILS. This means old examples will not be loaded in this version of the tool.

Version 3.1.1 (Current)

Release date: February 2024

Highlights

  1. Enabled rapidtools feature to extract building-level imagery from NHERI RAPID aerial and street-level image data

  2. Added the capability to pull National Structure Inventory as baseline building inventory

  3. Updated TranspInventoryGenerator for more stable API queries

  4. Updated FacadeParser for more effective memory utilization

Version 3.1.0

Release date: December 2023

Highlights

  1. Enabled Transportation inventory generation for roadways, bridges, tunnels, and railroads,

  2. Revised FacadeParser to calculate dimensions from depth maps (as opposed to ray tracing from camera coordinates) for more robust dimension predictions,

  3. Added FEMA USA Structures as an additional building footprint source.

Version 3.0.0

Release date: September 2022

Highlights

  1. Added new modules for predicting building height, building window area, first-floor height, existence of chimneys, and existence of garages, roof cover type, roof eave height, roof pitch,

  2. Streamlined location inputs by resolving the input through Nominatim API,

  3. Enabled on-the-fly footprint parsing from Microsoft Footprint Database and OpenStreetMaps,

  4. Added the capability to remove neighboring buildings from street-level and satellite imagery,

  5. Enabled inventory output creation in a CSV format compatible with R2D,

  6. Added pipelines for generalized image classification and semantic segmentation models.