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Hi Niko,

Thank you for using the SimCenter Forum, and apologies that this message escaped our attention until today.

A quick look at the error shows that the ImHandler has difficulty extracting the scale for the retrieved image for this particular building. I will need to look deeper into this issue to identify the potential causes.

I will get back to you with an update once this issue is resolved.

Hi Pooya,

Thank you for your kind words.

The video for the recorded session should be up shortly. I will follow up with the link once it is live.

Hi Sejin,

Thank you for your message. You can find a sample Jupyter notebook implementation of ImageSegmenter for facade segmentation at https://github.com/NHERI-SimCenter/BRAILS/blob/master/notebooks/BRAILS_FacadeSegmentation.ipynb.

The examples for FacadeParser are coming up soon.

Thank you for your message.

Colab, by default, runs on CPU. To attain the training times shown in the Crack Segmentation example, GPU acceleration must be enabled for your Colab environment.

To enable GPU acceleration,
1) choose Runtime on the menu bar,
2) select Change Runtime Type,
3) set Hardware Accelerator to GPU.

I hope this helps!

Thank you for using the SimCenter forum. The symptoms you described are fairly typical of the case where Google API Key is valid, but the APIs required for the current version of BRAILS are not enabled for API Key's use.

Utilizing all capabilities of the current version of BRAILS requires three APIs: 1) Street View Static API, 2) Maps Static API, and 3) Geocoding API. You will need to enable all of these APIs for the API Key you created.

The easiest way to enable these APIs is:
1) Go to https://console.cloud.google.com/
2) Select the project for which the API key was created (please see the attached image for the location of this button)
3) Locate the search bar on the top of the page (please see the attached image), enter "APIs and Services", then click the result under Products and Pages.
4) At the APIs and Services page, click on the Enable APIs and Services button, then find and select the three APIs listed above.

These steps should address the API Key issue.

One last thing, BRAILS, by default, searches your folder of images before it downloads the images required for your region. Given in your case, some of the images for your region were already erroneously downloaded, you may still run into image input issues after performing the above changes. To prevent this from happening, please 1) either manually delete the previously downloaded images your folder of images, or 2) call CityBuilder such that reDownloadImgs flag is enabled, i.e., CityBuilder(..........,reDownloadImgs = True).

I hope this helps!