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Articles | Volume IV-2/W4
https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-annals-IV-2-W4-401-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-annals-IV-2-W4-401-2017
14 Sep 2017
 | 14 Sep 2017

EXTRACTING TOPOLOGICAL RELATIONS BETWEEN INDOOR SPACES FROM POINT CLOUDS

H. Tran, K. Khoshelham, A. Kealy, and L. Díaz-Vilariño

Keywords: Indoor modelling, Point cloud, Indoor navigation, Shape grammar, Topology, Building Information Model (BIM)

Abstract. 3D models of indoor environments are essential for many application domains such as navigation guidance, emergency management and a range of indoor location-based services. The principal components defined in different BIM standards contain not only building elements, such as floors, walls and doors, but also navigable spaces and their topological relations, which are essential for path planning and navigation. We present an approach to automatically reconstruct topological relations between navigable spaces from point clouds. Three types of topological relations, namely containment, adjacency and connectivity of the spaces are modelled. The results of initial experiments demonstrate the potential of the method in supporting indoor navigation.