Unsupervised facade segmentation using repetitive patterns

  • Authors:
  • Andreas Wendel;Michael Donoser;Horst Bischof

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute for Computer Graphics and Vision, Graz University of Technology;Institute for Computer Graphics and Vision, Graz University of Technology;Institute for Computer Graphics and Vision, Graz University of Technology

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 32nd DAGM conference on Pattern recognition
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

We introduce a novel approach for separating and segmenting individual facades from streetside images. Our algorithm incorporates prior knowledge about arbitrarily shaped repetitive regions which are detected using intensity profile descriptors and a voting-based matcher. In the experiments we compare our approach to extended state-of-the-art matching approaches using more than 600 challenging streetside images, including different building styles and various occlusions. Our algorithm outperforms these approaches and allows to correctly separate 94% of the facades. Pixel-wise comparison to our ground-truth yields a segmentation accuracy of 85%. According to these results our work is an important contribution to fully automatic building reconstruction.