Pose Normalization of Indoor Mapping Datasets Partially Compliant with the Manhattan World Assumption
Due to their great potential for a variety of applications, digital building models are well established in all phases of building projects. Older stock buildings however frequently lack digital representations, and creating these manually is a tedious and time-consuming endeavor. For this reason, t...
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| description | Due to their great potential for a variety of applications, digital building models are well established in all phases of building projects. Older stock buildings however frequently lack digital representations, and creating these manually is a tedious and time-consuming endeavor. For this reason, the automated reconstruction of building models from indoor mapping data has arisen as an active field of research. In this context, many approaches rely on simplifying suppositions about the structure of buildings to be reconstructed such as, e.g., the well-known Manhattan World assumption. This however not only presupposes that a given building structure itself is compliant with this assumption, but also that the respective indoor mapping dataset is aligned with the coordinate axes. Indoor mapping systems, on the other hand, typically initialize the coordinate system arbitrarily by the sensor pose at the beginning of the mapping process. Thus, indoor mapping data need to be transformed from the local coordinate system, resulting from the mapping process, to a local coordinate system where the coordinate axes are aligned with the Manhattan World structure of the building. This necessary preprocessing step for many indoor reconstruction approaches is also frequently known as pose normalization. In this paper, we present a novel pose-normalization method for indoor mapping point clouds and triangle meshes that is robust against large portions of the indoor mapping geometries deviating from an ideal Manhattan World structure. In the case of building structures that contain multiple Manhattan World systems, the dominant Manhattan World structure supported by the largest fraction of geometries was determined and used for alignment. In a first step, a vertical alignment orienting a chosen axis to be orthogonal to horizontal floor and ceiling surfaces was conducted. Subsequently, a rotation around the resulting vertical axis was determined that aligned the dataset horizontally with the axes of the local coordinate system. The performance of the proposed method was evaluated quantitatively on several publicly available indoor mapping datasets of different complexity. The achieved results clearly revealed that our method is able to consistently produce correct poses for the considered datasets for different input rotations with high accuracy. The implementation of our method along with the code for reproducing the evaluation is made available to the public. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-677d3af5096a4d1fbab23f46c91cecc22023-11-23T02:56:00ZengMDPI AGRemote Sensing2072-42922021-11-011323476510.3390/rs13234765Pose Normalization of Indoor Mapping Datasets Partially Compliant with the Manhattan World AssumptionPatrick Hübner0Martin Weinmann1Sven Wursthorn2Stefan Hinz3Institute of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, 66185 Karlsruhe, GermanyInstitute of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, 66185 Karlsruhe, GermanyInstitute of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, 66185 Karlsruhe, GermanyInstitute of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, 66185 Karlsruhe, GermanyDue to their great potential for a variety of applications, digital building models are well established in all phases of building projects. Older stock buildings however frequently lack digital representations, and creating these manually is a tedious and time-consuming endeavor. For this reason, the automated reconstruction of building models from indoor mapping data has arisen as an active field of research. In this context, many approaches rely on simplifying suppositions about the structure of buildings to be reconstructed such as, e.g., the well-known Manhattan World assumption. This however not only presupposes that a given building structure itself is compliant with this assumption, but also that the respective indoor mapping dataset is aligned with the coordinate axes. Indoor mapping systems, on the other hand, typically initialize the coordinate system arbitrarily by the sensor pose at the beginning of the mapping process. Thus, indoor mapping data need to be transformed from the local coordinate system, resulting from the mapping process, to a local coordinate system where the coordinate axes are aligned with the Manhattan World structure of the building. This necessary preprocessing step for many indoor reconstruction approaches is also frequently known as pose normalization. In this paper, we present a novel pose-normalization method for indoor mapping point clouds and triangle meshes that is robust against large portions of the indoor mapping geometries deviating from an ideal Manhattan World structure. In the case of building structures that contain multiple Manhattan World systems, the dominant Manhattan World structure supported by the largest fraction of geometries was determined and used for alignment. In a first step, a vertical alignment orienting a chosen axis to be orthogonal to horizontal floor and ceiling surfaces was conducted. Subsequently, a rotation around the resulting vertical axis was determined that aligned the dataset horizontally with the axes of the local coordinate system. The performance of the proposed method was evaluated quantitatively on several publicly available indoor mapping datasets of different complexity. The achieved results clearly revealed that our method is able to consistently produce correct poses for the considered datasets for different input rotations with high accuracy. The implementation of our method along with the code for reproducing the evaluation is made available to the public.https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/13/23/4765pose normalizationManhattan Worldindoor mappingpoint cloudtriangle mesh |
| spellingShingle | Patrick Hübner Martin Weinmann Sven Wursthorn Stefan Hinz Pose Normalization of Indoor Mapping Datasets Partially Compliant with the Manhattan World Assumption Remote Sensing pose normalization Manhattan World indoor mapping point cloud triangle mesh |
| title | Pose Normalization of Indoor Mapping Datasets Partially Compliant with the Manhattan World Assumption |
| title_full | Pose Normalization of Indoor Mapping Datasets Partially Compliant with the Manhattan World Assumption |
| title_fullStr | Pose Normalization of Indoor Mapping Datasets Partially Compliant with the Manhattan World Assumption |
| title_full_unstemmed | Pose Normalization of Indoor Mapping Datasets Partially Compliant with the Manhattan World Assumption |
| title_short | Pose Normalization of Indoor Mapping Datasets Partially Compliant with the Manhattan World Assumption |
| title_sort | pose normalization of indoor mapping datasets partially compliant with the manhattan world assumption |
| topic | pose normalization Manhattan World indoor mapping point cloud triangle mesh |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/13/23/4765 |
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