Unsupervised window extraction from photogrammetric point clouds with thermal attributes

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Abstract

The automatic extraction of windows from photogrammetric data has achieved increasing attention in recent times. An unsupervised windows extraction approach from photogrammetric point clouds with thermal attributes is proposed in this study. First, point cloud segmentation is conducted by a popular workflow: Multiscale supervoxel generation is applied to the image-based 3D point cloud, followed by region growing and energy optimization using spatial positions and thermal attributes of the raw points. Afterwards, an object-based feature (window index) is extracted using the average thermal attribute and the size of the object. Next, thresholding is applied to extract initial window regions. Finally, several criterions are applied to further refine the extraction results. For practical validation, the approach is evaluated on an art nouveau building row façade located at Dresden, Germany.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)45-51
Number of pages7
JournalISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences
Volume4
Issue number2/W5
Publication statusPublished - 29 May 2019
Peer-reviewedYes

Workshop

Title4th ISPRS Geospatial Week
Abbreviated titleGSW 2019
Conference number4
Duration10 - 14 June 2019
Degree of recognitionInternational event
LocationUniversity of Twente
CityEnschede
CountryNetherlands

Keywords

Keywords

  • energy optimization, feature extraction, point cloud, segmentation, thermal attribute, Window extraction