Interactive Coherence-Based Façade Modeling

Information

• Publication Type: Journal Paper with Conference Talk
• Workgroup(s)/Project(s):
  • Photo-Guide: Image-Based City Exploration
• Date: May 2012
• Journal: Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of EUROGRAPHICS 2012)
• Volume: 31
• Number: 2
• Location: Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy
• Lecturer: Przemyslaw Musialski
• Event: Eurographics 2012
• Conference date: 13. May 2012 – 18. May 2012
• Pages: 661 – 670
• Keywords: facade modeling, urban modeling, facade reconstruction, image-based modeling

Abstract

We propose a novel interactive framework for modeling building façades from images. Our method is based on the notion of coherence-based editing which allows exploiting partial symmetries across the façade at any level of detail. The proposed workflow mixes manual interaction with automatic splitting and grouping operations based on unsupervised cluster analysis. In contrast to previous work, our approach leads to detailed 3d geometric models with up to several thousand regions per façade. We compare our modeling scheme to others and evaluate our approach in a user study with an experienced user and several novice users.

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Weblinks

• http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-8659.2012.03045.x/abstract

BibTeX

@article{musialski-2012-icb,
  title =      "Interactive Coherence-Based Fa\c{c}ade Modeling",
  author =     "Przemyslaw Musialski and Michael Wimmer and Peter Wonka",
  year =       "2012",
  abstract =   "We propose a novel interactive framework for modeling
               building fa\c{c}ades from images. Our method is based on the
               notion of coherence-based editing which allows exploiting
               partial symmetries across the fa\c{c}ade at any level of
               detail. The proposed workflow mixes manual interaction with
               automatic splitting and grouping operations based on
               unsupervised cluster analysis. In contrast to previous work,
               our approach leads to detailed 3d geometric models with up
               to several thousand regions per fa\c{c}ade. We compare our
               modeling scheme to others and evaluate our approach in a
               user study with an experienced user and several novice
               users.",
  month =      may,
  journal =    "Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of EUROGRAPHICS 2012)",
  volume =     "31",
  number =     "2",
  pages =      "661--670",
  keywords =   "facade modeling, urban modeling, facade reconstruction,
               image-based modeling",
  URL =        "https://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/research/publications/2012/musialski-2012-icb/",
}