Automatic Method for Building Indoor Boundary Models from Dense Point Clouds Collected by Laser Scanners

• Main Authors: Enrique Valero, Antonio Adán, Carlos Cerrada
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2012-11-01
• Series: Sensors
• Subjects: 3D modeling; B-rep models; laser scanners; 3D data processing
• Online Access: http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/12/12/16099

In this paper we present a method that automatically yields Boundary Representation Models (B-rep) for indoors after processing dense point clouds collected by laser scanners from key locations through an existing facility. Our objective is particularly focused on providing single models which contain the shape, location and relationship of primitive structural elements of inhabited scenarios such as walls, ceilings and floors. We propose a discretization of the space in order to accurately segment the 3D data and generate complete B-rep models of indoors in which faces, edges and vertices are coherently connected. The approach has been tested in real scenarios with data coming from laser scanners yielding promising results. We have deeply evaluated the results by analyzing how reliably these elements can be detected and how accurately they are modeled.