15 May 2020 Window detection employing a global regularity level set from oblique unmanned aerial vehicle images and point clouds
Yanwei Sun, Hao Li, Li Sun
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Abstract

Detailed building façade structures are significant parts of three-dimensional building models. A photogrammetric point cloud, generated from oblique unmanned aerial system imagery, is a type of data applied in building reconstruction. Its positive characteristics, alongside its challenging qualities, have provoked discussions related to our study. To obtain highly accurate window detection results, we propose a regular window detection method using a global regularity level set. Our method first detects the window boundaries from point clouds using a hole-based boundary extraction method. The minimum bounding rectangle of each boundary point cloud is then used specifically to represent the window. Next, façade partitioning is applied to subdivide the rectified façade images into a series of slices followed by cells. Each cell contains only one window rectangle after the processing. Finally, a global regularity level set algorithm is developed to optimize rectangular windows in horizontal and vertical slices using façade images. The proposed method was validated through a comparison with the slicing method on data from two façades. The accuracy of the window sizes in height and width was also discussed. The experiment results indicate that our method can obtain regular window locations and shapes from photogrammetric point clouds.

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Yanwei Sun, Hao Li, and Li Sun "Window detection employing a global regularity level set from oblique unmanned aerial vehicle images and point clouds," Journal of Applied Remote Sensing 14(2), 024513 (15 May 2020). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JRS.14.024513
Received: 2 November 2019; Accepted: 29 April 2020; Published: 15 May 2020
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KEYWORDS
Clouds

Lithium

Sun

3D modeling

Image segmentation

Unmanned aerial vehicles

3D image processing

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