Automatic Extraction of Man-Made Objects from Aerial and Space Images

Edited by A. Gruen E.P. Baltsavias 0. Henricsson

1997 Birkhäuser Verlag Basel • Boston • Berlin

Table of Contents

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General Topics and Scene Reconstruction An Overview of DARPA's Research Program in Automatic Population of Geospatial Databases

T. M. Strat, D. Climenson 3 A Testbed for the Evaluation of Feature Extraction Techniques in a Time Constrained Environment

J. J. Pearson, L. A. Oddo 13 The Role of Artificial Intelligence in the Reconstruction of Man-Made Objects from Aerial Images

F.Ade 23 Scene Reconstruction Research - Towards an Automatic System

F. Stolle, A. Hanson, C. Jaynes, E. Riseman, H. Schultz 33 Semantic Modelling of Man-Made Objects by Production Nets

U. Stilla, E. Michaelsen 43 From Large-Scale DTM Extraction to Feature Extraction

J. Loodts 53

Building Detection and Reconstruction

3-D Building Reconstruction with ARUBA: A Qualitative and Quantitative Evaluation

O. Henricsson, E. Baltsavias 65 A System for Building Detection from Aerial Images

R. Nevada, C. hin, A. Huertas 77 On the Reconstruction of Urban House Roofs from Aerial Images

D. Frere, M. Hendrickx, J. Vandekerckhove, T. Moons, L. Van Gool 87 Image-Based Reconstruction of Informal Settlements

S. Mason, E. Baltsavias 97 A Model Driven Approach to Extract Buildings from Multi-View Aerial Imagery

L. Spreeuwers, K. Schutte, Z. Houkes 709 Automated Building Extraction from Digital Stereo Imagery

Z Shi, R. Shibasaki, S. Mural 119 Application of Semi-Automatic Building Acquisition

E. Gülch 129 On the Integration of Object Modeling and Image Modeling in Automated Building Extraction from Aerial Images

V. Steinhage 139 TOBAGO - A Topology Builder for the Automated Generation of Building Models

A. Gruen, H. Dan 149

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Crestlines Constribution to the Automatic Building Extraction Y. Lechervy, C. Louis, O. Monga 161

Recognizing Buildings in Aerial Images F. Jung, B. Jedynak, D. Geman 173

Above-Ground Objects in Urban Scenes from Medium Scale Aerial Imagery

O. Dissard, C. Baillard, H. Maitre, O. Jamet 183 Digital Surface Models for Building Extraction

U. Weidner 193 Extracting Artificial Surface Objects from Airborne Laser Scanner Data

C. Hug ' 203 Interpretation of Urban Surface Models using 2D Building Information

N. Haala, C. Brenner 213 Least Squares Matching for Three Dimensional Building Reconstruction

H. Wiman 223 Assessment of the Effects of Resolution on Automated DEM and Building Extraction ,

/ P. Muller, C. Ourzik, T. Kim, I. Dowman 233

Road Extraction

The Role of Grouping for Road Extraction C. Steger, H. Mayer, B. Radig 245

Artificial Intelligence in 3-D Feature Extraction J. C. Trinder, Y. Wang, A. Sowmya, M. Palhang 257

Updating Road Maps by Contextual Reasoning G. Vosselman, M. de Gunst 267

Fast Robust Tracking of Curvy Partially Occluded Roads in Clutter in Aerial Images

M. Barzohar, M. Cohen, I. Ziskind, D. B. Cooper 277 Linear Feature Extraction with 3-D LSB-Snakes

A. Gruen, H. Li 287 Context-Supported Road Extraction

A. Baumgartner, W. Eckstein, H. Mayer, C. Heipke, H. Ebner 299

Map/GIS-Based Methods

Three-Dimensional Description of Dense Urban Areas using Maps and Aerial Images

M. Roux, H. Maitre. 311 MOSES: A Structural Approach to Aerial Image Understanding

F. Quint 323 An Approach for the Extraction of Settlement Areas

K.-J. Schilling, T. Vögtle 333

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Extraction of Polygonal Features from Satellite Images for Automatic Registration: The ARCHANGEL Project

/. Dowman, R. Ruskone 343

Visualisation

A Set of Visualization Data Needs in Urban Environmental Planning & Design for Photogrammetric Data

J. Danahy 357 A Virtual Reality Model of a Major International Airport

W. Schickler 367 Managing Large 3D Urban Database Contents Supporting Phototexture and Levels of Detail

M. Gruber, M. Kofler, F. Leberl 377

List of Workshop Participants 387 Author Index 393

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