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1996 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'96)
SiteCity: A Semi-Automated Site Modelling System
San Francisco, Ca.
June 18-June 20
ISBN: 0-8186-7258-7
Yuan Hsieh, Digital Mapping Laboratory Carnegie Melloon University
This paper presents SiteCity, a semi-automated building extraction system integrating photogrammetry, geometric constraints and image understanding algorithms. Existing automated building extraction systems produce mixed results and it is clear that human intervention is required to correct mistakes from fully automated systems. SiteCity gives human operators the ability to construct and manipulate three dimensional building objects using multiple images. Image understanding algorithms are integrated into SiteCity to assist users. The automated processes in SiteCity use user-delineated roof boundaries as cues, and attempt to locate the floor of a building and match the building object in other images. In addition, photogrammetric cues are used to assist automated processes. These automated processes are described and their performance is evaluated, illustrating that automated processes in SiteCity produce comparable performance to that of human subjects.
Index Terms:
Semi-automated vision system, Three-dimensional building extraction, Building delineation, Photogrammetry, Geometric constraints, Distance transform, Hough transform, Performance evaluation.
Citation:
Yuan Hsieh, "SiteCity: A Semi-Automated Site Modelling System," cvpr, pp.499, 1996 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'96), 1996
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