Abstract
Abstract. Obtaining building instance models directly through photogrammetry and other means results in high polygon counts and structural detail levels. Therefore, it is an important challenge to preserve the features of instant building models and generate lightweight building models from them. In this paper, we propose an improved lightweight reconstruction method for 3D building models based on planar primitives extraction, topology correction, and optimal planes selection. Improvements due to our method arise from three aspects: (1) After plane segmentation based on a simple region growing method, a second plane segmentation is performed on the building model based on the similarity of normal vectors. (2) According to the building structural characteristics, the initial plane segmentation is checked to generate new plane regions within the necessary connection regions. (3) The intersection of candidate planes is improved by enlarging the region of candidate faces, and the topological connection is improved. Furthermore, the topological relations of all planar primitives that have been optimized are recorded in an undirected graph. Finally, a watertight and manifold lightweight model is extracted from the faces of a candidate set by energy minimization. Experiments on different data sets show that the improved method is more reasonable in plane segmentation, and has superior performance in algorithm robustness and necessary structure recovery of buildings. Even when dealing with imperfect data, a watertight model is still obtained.
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