GIScience Colloquium talk on Automatic Reconstruction of Buildings by Andreas Wichmann

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Automatic Reconstruction of Buildings with Complex Roof Shapes

Andreas Wichmann
Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformation Science, Technische Universität Berlin

Time and date: Mon, October 23, 2:15 pm
Venue: INF 348, Room 015, Department of Geography, Heidelberg University

Digital 3D city models are of crucial importance in many applications such as urban and regional planning and enable in the environmental field precise analyses and simulations of pollutant, flood, and noise propagation. Their manual reconstruction provides good results, but is usually very time-consuming and expensive. In order to overcome this issue, the development of automatic reconstruction approaches for the time-efficient and cost-effective generation of 3D building models has become of great interest in recent years. In this talk, a fully automatic building reconstruction approach will be presented which uses building points of an aerial LiDAR data set. The approach is characterized by a strong integration of building knowledge, which is automatically derived during the reconstruction through the application of a graph grammar. It utilizes half-space modeling techniques for the construction of 3D building models to ensure their topological correctness. The resulting building models feature many details and provide in addition to the geometric information also semantic information if required. Thus, they are well suited for different applications. The talk will conclude with a brief overview of related research activities of the speaker.