Automatic Creation of Massive Virtual Cities

  • Authors:
  • Charalambos Poullis;Suya You

  • Affiliations:
  • CGIT/IMSC University of Southern California e-mail: charalambos@poullis.org;CGIT/IMSC University of Southern California e-mail: suyay@graphics.usc.edu

  • Venue:
  • VR '09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE Virtual Reality Conference
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

This research effort focuses on the historically-difficult problem of creating large-scale (city size) scene models from sensor data, including rapid extraction and modeling of geometry models. The solution to this problem is sought in the development of a novel modeling system with a fully automatic technique for the extraction of polygonal 3D models from LiDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) data. The result is an accurate 3D model representation of the real-world as shown in Figure 1. We present and evaluate experimental results of our approach for the automatic reconstruction of large U. S. cities.