Modeling and Representations of Large-Scale 3D Scenes

Abstract

Modeling large urban and historical scenes, both indoors and outdoors, has many applications, such as mapping, surveillance, transportation, development planning, archeology, and architecture. Research on large-scale 3D scene modeling has recently attracted increased attention of both academia and industry, resulting in major research projects. In addition to aerial imagery, both closer-range airborne and ground video/lidar sensors are used for achieving rapid, accurate and realistic modeling. Also critical for modeling large-scale 3D man-made urban or historical scenes is the choice of representations to accurately and properly represent fine structures, textureless regions, sharp depth changes, and occlusions. This IJCV special issue on Modeling and Representations of Large-Scale 3D Scenes is devoted to the latest research results in this interesting and challenging area. After a rigorous IJCV peer-review process, eight papers in four categories are selected: