Deep Learning Guided Building Reconstruction from Satellite Imagery-derived Point Clouds

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2005.09223v1
• Date: Tue, 19 May 2020 05:38:06 GMT
• Title: Deep Learning Guided Building Reconstruction from Satellite Imagery-derived Point Clouds
• Authors: Bo Xu, Xu Zhang, Zhixin Li, Matt Leotta, Shih-Fu Chang, Jie Shan
• Abstract summary: We present a reliable and effective approach for building model reconstruction from the point clouds generated from satellite images. Specifically, a deep-learning approach is adopted to distinguish the shape of building roofs in complex and yet noisy scenes. As the first effort to address the public need of large scale city model generation, the development is deployed as open source software.
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• Abstract: 3D urban reconstruction of buildings from remotely sensed imagery has drawn significant attention during the past two decades. While aerial imagery and LiDAR provide higher resolution, satellite imagery is cheaper and more efficient to acquire for large scale need. However, the high, orbital altitude of satellite observation brings intrinsic challenges, like unpredictable atmospheric effect, multi view angles, significant radiometric differences due to the necessary multiple views, diverse land covers and urban structures in a scene, small base-height ratio or narrow field of view, all of which may degrade 3D reconstruction quality. To address these major challenges, we present a reliable and effective approach for building model reconstruction from the point clouds generated from multi-view satellite images. We utilize multiple types of primitive shapes to fit the input point cloud. Specifically, a deep-learning approach is adopted to distinguish the shape of building roofs in complex and yet noisy scenes. For points that belong to the same roof shape, a multi-cue, hierarchical RANSAC approach is proposed for efficient and reliable segmenting and reconstructing the building point cloud. Experimental results over four selected urban areas (0.34 to 2.04 sq km in size) demonstrate the proposed method can generate detailed roof structures under noisy data environments. The average successful rate for building shape recognition is 83.0%, while the overall completeness and correctness are over 70% with reference to ground truth created from airborne lidar. As the first effort to address the public need of large scale city model generation, the development is deployed as open source software.

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