2020/11/30 by Qing Zhu, Qisen Shang, Han Hu +2 · 14 citations
Computer Science · Earth and Planetary Sciences · Engineering · Environmental Science · #3D Surveying and Cultural Heritage #Computer graphics (images) #Computer science #Computer vision #Photogrammetry #Polygon mesh #Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications #Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization #cs.CV
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2021.02.010
published in ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing 175, 56-70 (Elsevier BV)
arxiv created 2021/02/10 · arxiv updated 2021/03/12 · openalex publication_date 2021/03/12 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
Photogrammetric mesh models obtained from aerial oblique images have been widely used for urban reconstruction. However, the photogrammetric meshes also suffer from severe texture problems, especially on the road areas due to occlusion. This paper proposes a structure-aware completion approach to improve the quality of meshes by removing undesired vehicles on the road seamlessly. Specifically, the discontinuous texture atlas is first integrated to a continuous screen space through rendering by the graphics pipeline; the rendering also records necessary mapping for deintegration to the original texture atlas after editing. Vehicle regions are masked by a standard object detection approach, e.g. Faster RCNN. Then, the masked regions are completed guided by the linear structures and regularities in the road region, which is implemented based on Patch Match. Finally, the completed rendered image is deintegrated to the original texture atlas and the triangles for the vehicles are also flattened for improved meshes. Experimental evaluations and analyses are conducted against three datasets, which are captured with different sensors and ground sample distances. The results reveal that the proposed method can quite realistic meshes after removing the vehicles. The structure-aware completion approach for road regions outperforms popular image completion methods and ablation study further confirms the effectiveness of the linear guidance. It should be noted that the proposed method is also capable to handle tiled mesh models for large-scale scenes. Dataset and code are available at vrlab.org.cn/~hanhu/projects/mesh.