Reconstruction of Indoor Navigation Elements for Point Cloud of Buildings with Occlusions and Openings by Wall Segment Restoration from Indoor Context Labeling

• Published in: Remote sensing (Basel, Switzerland) Vol. 14; no. 17; p. 4275
• Main Authors: Liu, Guangzu, Wei, Shuangfeng, Zhong, Shaobo, Huang, Shuai, Zhong, Ruofei
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 01.09.2022
• Subjects: Architectural elements; Buildings; Data collection; Doors; Flooring; Hypotheses; Indoor environments; Indoor navigation; indoor navigation elements; Labeling; Lasers; Localization; Measurement techniques; Methods; Object recognition; openings; point cloud; Reconstruction; Rescue operations; Restoration; room segmentation; Scanners; Segmentation; Segments; Semantics; Three dimensional models; wall segment restoration
• ISSN: 2072-4292; 2072-4292
• DOI: 10.3390/rs14174275

Indoor 3D reconstruction and navigation element extraction with point cloud data has become a research focus in recent years, which has important application in community refinement management, emergency rescue and evacuation, etc. Aiming at the problem that the complete wall surfaces cannot be obtained in the indoor space affected by the occluded objects and the existing methods of navigation element extraction are over-segmented or under-segmented, we propose a method to automatically reconstruct indoor navigation elements from unstructured 3D point cloud of buildings with occlusions and openings. First, the outline and occupancy information provided by the horizontal projection of the point cloud was used to guide the wall segment restoration. Second, we simulate the scanning process of a laser scanner for segmentation. Third, we use projection statistical graphs and given rules to identify missing wall surfaces and “hidden doors”. The method is tested on several building datasets with complex structures. The results show that the method can detect and reconstruct indoor navigation elements without viewpoint information. The means of deviation in the reconstructed models is between 0–5 cm, and the completeness and correction are greater than 80%. However, the proposed method also has some limitations for the extraction of “thick doors” with a large number of occluded, non-planar components.