A 3D Feature for Building Segmentation based on Shape-from-Shading

Dimitrios Konstantinidis, Vasileios Argyriou, Tania Stathaki, Nikos Grammalidis

2015

Abstract

An important cue that can assist towards an accurate building detection and segmentation is 3D information. Because of their height, buildings can easily be distinguished from the ground and small objects, allowing for their successful segmentation. Unfortunately, 3D knowledge is not always available, but there are ways to infer 3D information from 2D images. Shape-from-shading techniques extract height and surface normal information from a single 2D image by taking into consideration knowledge about illumination, reflectance and shape. In this paper, a novel feature is proposed that can describe the 3D information of reconstructed images based on a shape-from-shading technique in order to successfully acquire building boundaries. The results are promising and show that such a 3D feature can significantly assist in a correct building boundary detection and segmentation.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Konstantinidis D., Argyriou V., Stathaki T. and Grammalidis N. (2015). A 3D Feature for Building Segmentation based on Shape-from-Shading . In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 2: MMS-ER3D, (VISIGRAPP 2015) ISBN 978-989-758-090-1, pages 595-602. DOI: 10.5220/0005456305950602

in Bibtex Style

@conference{mms-er3d15,
author={Dimitrios Konstantinidis and Vasileios Argyriou and Tania Stathaki and Nikos Grammalidis},
title={A 3D Feature for Building Segmentation based on Shape-from-Shading},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 2: MMS-ER3D, (VISIGRAPP 2015)},
year={2015},
pages={595-602},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005456305950602},
isbn={978-989-758-090-1},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 2: MMS-ER3D, (VISIGRAPP 2015)
TI - A 3D Feature for Building Segmentation based on Shape-from-Shading
SN - 978-989-758-090-1
AU - Konstantinidis D.
AU - Argyriou V.
AU - Stathaki T.
AU - Grammalidis N.
PY - 2015
SP - 595
EP - 602
DO - 10.5220/0005456305950602