Feature-preserving 3D Mesh Simplification for Urban Buildings

Minglei Li Liangliang Nan

Geometric Analysis and Geometric Topology Geometric Modeling and Processing mathscidoc:2106.15007

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 173, 2021.1
The goal of urban building mesh simplification is to generate a compact representation of a building from a given mesh. Local smoothness and sharp contours of urban buildings are important features for converting unstructured data into solid models, which should be preserved during the simplification. In this paper, we present a general method to filter and simplify 3D building mesh models, capable of preserving piecewise planar structures and sharp features. Given a building mesh model, a mesh filtering technique is firstly designed to yield piecewise planar regions and extract crease contours. The planar regions are used to constrain the simplification of the mesh. Mesh decimation is achieved through a series of edge collapse operations, which uses regional structural constraints and local geometric error metrics to handle planar and non-planar areas respectively. The proposed method preserves the mesh structure with meaningful levels of detail while reducing the number of faces. The effectiveness of this method is evaluated on various building models generated from different observation scales, and the performance is validated by extensive comparisons to state-of-the-art techniques.
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@inproceedings{minglei2021feature-preserving,
  title={Feature-preserving 3D Mesh Simplification for Urban Buildings},
  author={Minglei Li, and Liangliang Nan},
  url={http://archive.ymsc.tsinghua.edu.cn/pacm_paperurl/20210621153623602620849},
  booktitle={ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing},
  volume={173},
  year={2021},
}
Minglei Li, and Liangliang Nan. Feature-preserving 3D Mesh Simplification for Urban Buildings. 2021. Vol. 173. In ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. http://archive.ymsc.tsinghua.edu.cn/pacm_paperurl/20210621153623602620849.
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