Remote Sensing, Vol. 13, Pages 4777: Urban Building Mesh Polygonization Based on 1-Ring Patch and Topology Optimization (Remote Sensing)

With the development of UAV and oblique photogrammetry technology, the multi-view stereo image has become an important data source for 3D urban reconstruction, and the surface meshes generated by it have become a common way to represent the building surface model due to their high geometric similarity and high shape representation ability. However, due to the problem of data quality and lack of building structure information in multi-view stereo image data sources, it is a huge challenge to generate simplified polygonal models from building surface meshes with high data redundancy and fuzzy structural boundaries, along with high time consumption, low accuracy, and poor robustness. In this paper, an improved mesh representation strategy based on 1-ring patches is proposed, and the topology validity is improved on this basis. Experimental results show that our method can reconstruct the concise, manifold, and watertight surface models of different buildings, and it can improve the processing efficiency, parameter adaptability, and model quality.