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Articles | Volume XLII-4/W8
https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-4-W8-101-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-4-W8-101-2018
11 Jul 2018
 | 11 Jul 2018

INDOOR SPATIAL DATA CONSTRUCTION FROM TRIANGLE MESH

D. Kim, A. Bolat, and K.-J. Li

Keywords: TriangleMesh, Mesh Simplification, Solid, Indoor Space, Indoor Data, IndoorGML

Abstract. The 3D triangle mesh is widely used to represent indoor space. One of widely used methods of generating 3D triangle mesh data of indoor space is the construction from the point cloud collected using LIDAR. However, there are many problems in using generated triangle mesh data as a geometric representation of the indoor space. First, the number of triangles forming the triangle mesh is very large, which results in a bottleneck of the performance for storage and management. Second, no consideration on the properties of indoor space has been done by the previous work on mesh simplification for indoor geometric representation. Third, there is no research to construct indoor spatial standard data from triangle mesh data. For resolving these problems, we propose the a method for generating triangular mesh data for indoor geometric representation based in the observations mentioned above. First this method removes unnecessary objects and reduces the number of surfaces from the original fine-grained triangular mesh data using the properties of indoor space. Second, it also produces indoor geometric data in IndoorGML – an OGC standard for indoor spatial data model. In experimental studies, we present a case study of indoor triangle mesh data from real world and compare results with raw data.