Structural Approach for Building Reconstruction from a Single DSM

  • Authors:
  • Florent Lafarge;Xavier Descombes;Josiane Zerubia;Marc Pierrot-Deseilligny

  • Affiliations:
  • Ariana Research Group, INRIA and Matis Laboratory, French Mapping Agency, Sophia Antipolis;Ariana Research Group, INRIA, Sophia Antipolis;Ariana Research Group, INRIA, Sophia Antipolis;French Mapping Agency (IGN), Saint-Mandé

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

We present a new approach for building reconstruction from a single Digital Surface Model (DSM). It treats buildings as an assemblage of simple urban structures extracted from a library of 3D parametric blocks (like a LEGO set). First, the 2D-supports of the urban structures are extracted either interactively or automatically. Then, 3D-blocks are placed on the 2D-supports using a Gibbs model which controls both the block assemblage and the fitting to data. A Bayesian decision finds the optimal configuration of 3D--blocks using a Markov Chain Monte Carlo sampler associated with original proposition kernels. This method has been validated on multiple data set in a wide-resolution interval such as 0.7 m satellite and 0.1 m aerial DSMs, and provides 3D representations on complex buildings and dense urban areas with various levels of detail.