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Articles | Volume XL-4/W5
https://doi.org/10.5194/isprsarchives-XL-4-W5-147-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/isprsarchives-XL-4-W5-147-2015
11 May 2015
 | 11 May 2015

A RESEARCH ON THE HIERARCHY AND COMPLETENESS OF ROOF TOPOLOGY FOR ROBUST BUILDING RECONSTRUCTION FROM AIRBORNE POINT CLOUD

B. Xu, W. S. Jiang, and Q. S. Zhu

Keywords: 3D Building Reconstruction, Point Cloud, Level of Details, Roof Topology Graph, Topology Completeness

Abstract. In this work, we concentrate on the hierarchy and completeness of roof topology, and the aim is to avoid or correct the errors in roof topology. The hierarchy of topology is expressed by the hierarchical roof topology graph (HRTG) in accord with the definition of CityGML LOD (level of details). We decompose the roof topology graph (RTG) with a progressive approach while maintain the integrality and consistency of the data set simultaneously. Common feathers like collinear ridges or boundaries are calculated integrally to maintain their completeness. The roof items will only detected locally to decrease the error caused by data spare or mutual interference. Finally, a topology completeness test is adopted to detect and correct errors in roof topology, which results in a complete and hierarchical building model. Experiments shows that our methods have obvious improvements to the RTG based reconstruction method, especially for sparse data or roof topology with ambiguous.