Learning to Construct 3D Building Wireframes from 3D Line Clouds

Yicheng Luo, Jing Ren, Xuefei Zhe, Di Kang, Yajing Xu, Peter Wonka, Linchao Bao

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Abstract

Line clouds, though under-investigated in the previous work, potentially encode more compact structural information of buildings than point clouds extracted from multi-view images. In this work, we propose the first network to process line clouds for building wireframe abstraction. The network takes a line cloud as input, i.e., a nonstructural and unordered set of 3D line segments extracted from multi-view images, and outputs a 3D wireframe of the underlying building, which consists of a sparse set of 3D junctions connected by line segments. We observe that a line patch, i.e., a group of neighboring line segments, encodes sufficient contour information to predict the existence and even the 3D position of a potential junction, as well as the likelihood of connectivity between two query junctions. We therefore introduce a two-layer Line-Patch Transformer to extract junctions and connectivities from sampled line patches to form a 3D building wireframe model. We also introduce a synthetic dataset of multi-view images with ground-truth 3D wireframe. We extensively justify that our reconstructed 3D wireframe models significantly improve upon multiple baseline building reconstruction methods.The code and data can be found at https://github.com/Luo1Cheng/LC2WF.

Original languageEnglish (US)
StatePublished - 2022
Event33rd British Machine Vision Conference Proceedings, BMVC 2022 - London, United Kingdom
Duration: Nov 21 2022Nov 24 2022

Conference

Conference33rd British Machine Vision Conference Proceedings, BMVC 2022
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityLondon
Period11/21/2211/24/22

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

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