Data processing algorithms for generating textured 3D building facade meshes from laser scans and camera images

C Frueh, S Jain, A Zakhor - International Journal of Computer Vision, 2005 - Springer
In this paper, we develop a set of data processing algorithms for generating textured facade
meshes of cities from a series of vertical 2D surface scans and camera images, obtained by …

3d urban scene modeling integrating recognition and reconstruction

N Cornelis, B Leibe, K Cornelis, L Van Gool - International Journal of …, 2008 - Springer
Supplying realistically textured 3D city models at ground level promises to be useful for pre-
visualizing upcoming traffic situations in car navigation systems. Because this pre …

Structural approach for building reconstruction from a single DSM

F Lafarge, X Descombes, J Zerubia… - … on pattern analysis …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluation of automatic building detection approaches combining high resolution images and LiDAR data

T Hermosilla, LA Ruiz, JA Recio, J Estornell - Remote Sensing, 2011 - mdpi.com
In this paper, two main approaches for automatic building detection and localization using
high spatial resolution imagery and LiDAR data are compared and evaluated: thresholding …

Building reconstruction using manhattan-world grammars

CA Vanegas, DG Aliaga… - 2010 IEEE Computer …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a passive computer vision method that exploits existing mapping and navigation
databases in order to automatically create 3D building models. Our method defines a …

Constructing 3D city models by merging ground-based and airborne views

C Frueh, A Zakhor - 2003 IEEE Computer Society Conference …, 2003 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we present a fast approach to automated generation of textured 3D city models
with both high details at ground level, and complete coverage for bird's-eye view. A close …

A hierarchical and contextual model for aerial image parsing

J Porway, Q Wang, SC Zhu - International journal of computer vision, 2010 - Springer
In this paper we present a hierarchical and contextual model for aerial image understanding.
Our model organizes objects (cars, roofs, roads, trees, parking lots) in aerial scenes into …

Automatic rooftop extraction in nadir aerial imagery of suburban regions using corners and variational level set evolution

M Cote, P Saeedi - IEEE transactions on geoscience and …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Building profile extraction from aerial imagery constitutes a key element in numerous
geospatial applications. Rooftop detection has been addressed through a variety of …

From google street view to 3d city models

A Torii, M Havlena, T Pajdla - 2009 IEEE 12th international …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a structure-from-motion (SfM) pipeline for visual 3D modeling of a large city area
using 360° field of view Google Street View images. The core of the pipeline combines the …

Interactive example-based urban layout synthesis

DG Aliaga, CA Vanegas, B Benes - ACM transactions on graphics (TOG), 2008 - dl.acm.org
We present an interactive system for synthesizing urban layouts by example. Our method
simultaneously performs both a structure-based synthesis and an image-based synthesis to …