Shape Your Ground: Refining Road Surfaces Beyond Planar Representations

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2504.16103v1
• Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2025 21:20:44 GMT
• Title: Shape Your Ground: Refining Road Surfaces Beyond Planar Representations
• Authors: Oussema Dhaouadi, Johannes Meier, Jacques Kaiser, Daniel Cremers,
• Abstract summary: Road surface reconstruction from aerial images is fundamental for autonomous driving, urban planning, and virtual simulation.<n>Existing reconstruction methods often produce artifacts and inconsistencies that limit usability.<n>We introduce FlexRoad, the first framework to address road surface smoothing by fitting Non-Uniform Rational B-Splines (NURBS) surfaces to 3D road points obtained from photogrammetric reconstructions or geodata providers.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Road surface reconstruction from aerial images is fundamental for autonomous driving, urban planning, and virtual simulation, where smoothness, compactness, and accuracy are critical quality factors. Existing reconstruction methods often produce artifacts and inconsistencies that limit usability, while downstream tasks have a tendency to represent roads as planes for simplicity but at the cost of accuracy. We introduce FlexRoad, the first framework to directly address road surface smoothing by fitting Non-Uniform Rational B-Splines (NURBS) surfaces to 3D road points obtained from photogrammetric reconstructions or geodata providers. Our method at its core utilizes the Elevation-Constrained Spatial Road Clustering (ECSRC) algorithm for robust anomaly correction, significantly reducing surface roughness and fitting errors. To facilitate quantitative comparison between road surface reconstruction methods, we present GeoRoad Dataset (GeRoD), a diverse collection of road surface and terrain profiles derived from openly accessible geodata. Experiments on GeRoD and the photogrammetry-based DeepScenario Open 3D Dataset (DSC3D) demonstrate that FlexRoad considerably surpasses commonly used road surface representations across various metrics while being insensitive to various input sources, terrains, and noise types. By performing ablation studies, we identify the key role of each component towards high-quality reconstruction performance, making FlexRoad a generic method for realistic road surface modeling.

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