Using Artificial Intelligence for Better City Planning
To support the eThekwini municipality in automating their building mapping process, the UNITAC team developed BEAM, a software that uses Machine Learning to radically accelerate the spatial recognition of buildings and keep track of changes in the built-up area or density. BEAM (Building & Establishment Automated Mapper) is an open source and easy-to-use tool that allows the user to quickly detect and visualise rooftops in a specific area by simply uploading aerial images of a given location.