Point2Building: Reconstructing Buildings from Airborne LiDAR Point Clouds

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Main Authors: Liu, Yujia, Obukhov, Anton, Wegner, Jan Dirk, Schindler, Konrad
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Published: 2024
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author Liu, Yujia
Obukhov, Anton
Wegner, Jan Dirk
Schindler, Konrad
author_facet Liu, Yujia
Obukhov, Anton
Wegner, Jan Dirk
Schindler, Konrad
contents We present a learning-based approach to reconstruct buildings as 3D polygonal meshes from airborne LiDAR point clouds. What makes 3D building reconstruction from airborne LiDAR hard is the large diversity of building designs and especially roof shapes, the low and varying point density across the scene, and the often incomplete coverage of building facades due to occlusions by vegetation or to the viewing angle of the sensor. To cope with the diversity of shapes and inhomogeneous and incomplete object coverage, we introduce a generative model that directly predicts 3D polygonal meshes from input point clouds. Our autoregressive model, called Point2Building, iteratively builds up the mesh by generating sequences of vertices and faces. This approach enables our model to adapt flexibly to diverse geometries and building structures. Unlike many existing methods that rely heavily on pre-processing steps like exhaustive plane detection, our model learns directly from the point cloud data, thereby reducing error propagation and increasing the fidelity of the reconstruction. We experimentally validate our method on a collection of airborne LiDAR data of Zurich, Berlin and Tallinn. Our method shows good generalization to diverse urban styles.
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spellingShingle Point2Building: Reconstructing Buildings from Airborne LiDAR Point Clouds
Liu, Yujia
Obukhov, Anton
Wegner, Jan Dirk
Schindler, Konrad
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
We present a learning-based approach to reconstruct buildings as 3D polygonal meshes from airborne LiDAR point clouds. What makes 3D building reconstruction from airborne LiDAR hard is the large diversity of building designs and especially roof shapes, the low and varying point density across the scene, and the often incomplete coverage of building facades due to occlusions by vegetation or to the viewing angle of the sensor. To cope with the diversity of shapes and inhomogeneous and incomplete object coverage, we introduce a generative model that directly predicts 3D polygonal meshes from input point clouds. Our autoregressive model, called Point2Building, iteratively builds up the mesh by generating sequences of vertices and faces. This approach enables our model to adapt flexibly to diverse geometries and building structures. Unlike many existing methods that rely heavily on pre-processing steps like exhaustive plane detection, our model learns directly from the point cloud data, thereby reducing error propagation and increasing the fidelity of the reconstruction. We experimentally validate our method on a collection of airborne LiDAR data of Zurich, Berlin and Tallinn. Our method shows good generalization to diverse urban styles.
title Point2Building: Reconstructing Buildings from Airborne LiDAR Point Clouds
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.02136