Out-Of-Core Topologically Constrained Simplification for City Modeling from Digital Surface Models

Keywords: Abstraction, City Model, DSM, Geometry Simplification, Visualization

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@ARTICLE{moeser-2009-topologically,
    author = {M{\"o}ser, Sebastian and Wahl, Roland and Klein, Reinhard},
     title = {Out-Of-Core Topologically Constrained Simplification for City Modeling from Digital Surface Models},
   journal = {International Archives of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences},
    volume = {XXXVIII-5/W1},
      year = {2009},
     month = feb,
  keywords = {Abstraction, City Model, DSM, Geometry Simplification, Visualization},
  abstract = {We present a framework for rapid reconstruction of building models from very large, high-detail
              digital surface models (DSM) of urban
              areas. Our method is based on a geometric mesh simplification approach augmented with shape
              constraints (Wahl et al., 2008). This
              approach allows to abstract the full-featured DSM in such a way that important structural elements
              are maintained irrespective of the
              approximation accuracy.
              In this paper we present two major extensions. Firstly, we deal with situations, where the original
              approach may generate artefacts due
              to incomplete or inconsistent structural information, mainly caused by vegetation close to the
              facades. We present refined topological
              constraints, which handle these problems and a filtering which neglects structural information that
              contradicts the mesh topology.
              Secondly, we extend the computational framework to be fully out-of-core capable and present a way to
              parallelize computations on
              multiple cores.
              We demonstrate the efficiency of our method by showing results for downtown Berlin a dataset
              containing more than 1 billion height
              samples processed in less than 30 hours.},
      issn = {1682-1777}
}