Semantic decomposition and reconstruction of residential scenes from LiDAR data

  • Authors:
  • Hui Lin;Jizhou Gao;Yu Zhou;Guiliang Lu;Mao Ye;Chenxi Zhang;Ligang Liu;Ruigang Yang

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Kentucky;University of Kentucky;Nanjing University;Nanjing University;University of Kentucky;University of Kentucky;University of Science and Technology of China;University of Kentucky

  • Venue:
  • ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) - SIGGRAPH 2013 Conference Proceedings
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

We present a complete system to semantically decompose and reconstruct 3D models from point clouds. Different than previous urban modeling approaches, our system is designed for residential scenes, which consist of mainly low-rise buildings that do not exhibit the regularity and repetitiveness as high-rise buildings in downtown areas. Our system first automatically labels the input into distinctive categories using supervised learning techniques. Based on the semantic labels, objects in different categories are reconstructed with domain-specific knowledge. In particular, we present a novel building modeling scheme that aims to decompose and fit the building point cloud into basic blocks that are block-wise symmetric and convex. This building representation and its reconstruction algorithm are flexible, efficient, and robust to missing data. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our system on various datasets and compare our building modeling scheme with other state-of-the-art reconstruction algorithms to show its advantage in terms of both quality and speed.