Eurographics 2008 - Short Papers
2008
pp. 91-94

Efficient Visualization of Architectural Models from a Structure and Motion Pipeline

Michela Farenzena, Andrea Fusiello, and Riccardo Gherardi

State of the art three dimensional reconstruction pipelines can nowadays produce models up to several million polygons without any human intervention from a set of digital images or video. Such models are able to stretch the rendering capabilities of current hardware. We propose to augment a typical structure from motion pipeline with two additional steps, automatic fitting of high-level solid primitives and relief maps extraction, thus recovering both the overall structure of a building and its fine geometry. This not only gives birth to a more tractable and semantic model of the imaged scene, but allows for efficient and compelling rendering. We substantiate our claims showing a complete example of the described system.

Categories and Subject Descriptors (according to ACM CCS): I.4.8 [Computer Vision]: Scene Analysis; I.3.5 [Computer Graphics]: Object Representations

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