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Articles | Volume XL-1/W5
https://doi.org/10.5194/isprsarchives-XL-1-W5-43-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/isprsarchives-XL-1-W5-43-2015
10 Dec 2015
 | 10 Dec 2015

AN IMAGE-BASED TECHNIQUE FOR 3D BUILDING RECONSTRUCTION USING MULTI-VIEW UAV IMAGES

F. Alidoost and H. Arefi

Keywords: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), Modelling, 3D reconstruction, Mesh, Semi Global Matching (SGM)

Abstract. Nowadays, with the development of the urban areas, the automatic reconstruction of the buildings, as an important objects of the city complex structures, became a challenging topic in computer vision and photogrammetric researches. In this paper, the capability of multi-view Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) images is examined to provide a 3D model of complex building façades using an efficient image-based modelling workflow. The main steps of this work include: pose estimation, point cloud generation, and 3D modelling. After improving the initial values of interior and exterior parameters at first step, an efficient image matching technique such as Semi Global Matching (SGM) is applied on UAV images and a dense point cloud is generated. Then, a mesh model of points is calculated using Delaunay 2.5D triangulation and refined to obtain an accurate model of building. Finally, a texture is assigned to mesh in order to create a realistic 3D model. The resulting model has provided enough details of building based on visual assessment.