Synthetic Homes: A Multimodal Generative AI Pipeline for Residential Building Data Generation under Data Scarcity

Researchers developed a multimodal generative AI pipeline that creates synthetic residential building datasets from publicly available county records and images, addressing critical data scarcity challenges in building energy modeling. The system achieves over 65% overlap with national reference data, enabling scalable energy research and urban simulations without relying on expensive or privacy-restricted datasets.