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Title 3D Urban Building Reconstruction Through Neural Rendering And Uav Imagery
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Authors Cheolhwan K.; Youngmok K.; Wonjun C.; Eunkwan L.; Hong-Gyoo S.
Year 2023
Published Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography, 41, 5
DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.7848/ksgpc.2023.41.5.407
Abstract The growing emphasis on smart cities and digital twins has heightened the significance of 3D geospatial information. Creating 3D models for urban buildings is a crucial area of interest but is severely labor-intensive and time-consuming. So, research has been conducted to reconstruct 3D urban structures automatically, employing various sensors. While there have been various studies on creating 3D models using UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) images, increasing the overlap between images to secure matching points and using an exponentially increased number of images for computation was mainly confirmed. Additionally, even when a sufficient number of input images were available, there were limitations in fully reconstructing all facets of a building, leading to instances where data from other sensor-based sources was needed. Therefore, in this study, we utilized only UAV images to create a point cloud using a deep learning-based neural rendering model and supplemented the occluded areas in conventional methodologies. We examined how processing time and Gaussian standard deviation change while generating building models by reducing the number of input images, comparing with ground truth derived from photogrammetry. Creating the 3D model with deep learning just took 25.251 minutes, a significant improvement from the 84.284 minutes required by the traditional method. Furthermore, even with a reduction of over three-quarters in the number of input images, the Gaussian standard deviation only showed a marginal difference of 0.203 meters compared to the entire image set. It underscores the effectiveness of our approach in supplementing occluded areas, surpassing the limitations observed in existing methods. © 2023 Korean Society of Surveying. All rights reserved.
Author Keywords 3D Building Modeling; Deep Learning; Neural Radiance Field; Unmanned Aerial Vehicle


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