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Articles | Volume II-3
https://doi.org/10.5194/isprsannals-II-3-119-2014
https://doi.org/10.5194/isprsannals-II-3-119-2014
07 Aug 2014
 | 07 Aug 2014

A flexible methodology for outdoor/indoor building reconstruction from occluded point clouds

M. Previtali, M. Scaioni, L. Barazzetti, and R. Brumana

Keywords: Façade modelling, Indoor Reconstruction, Terrestrial laser scanning, Pattern Recognition, Urban Scene Analysis

Abstract. Terrestrial Laser Scanning data are increasingly used in building survey not only in cultural heritage domain but also for as-built modelling of large and medium size civil structures. However, raw point clouds derived from laser scanning generally not directly ready for the generation of such models. A time-consuming manual modelling phase has to be taken into account. In addition the large presence of occlusion and clutter may turn out in low-quality building models when state-of-the-art automatic modelling procedures are applied. This paper presents an automated procedure to convert raw point clouds into semantically-enriched building models. The developed method mainly focuses on a geometrical complexity typical of modern buildings with clear prevalence of planar features A characteristic of this methodology is the possibility to work with outdoor and indoor building environments. In order to operate under severe occlusions and clutter a couple of completion algorithms were designed to generate a plausible and reliable model. Finally, some examples of the developed modelling procedure are presented and discussed.