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3.2 3D Reconstruction of House
The extraction scheme of housing boundary mention above is based on the analysis of single image. House could be
reconstructed in object space through extracting the corresponding house boundaries in the left and right image. But, the
paper adopts the scheme based on the least squares matching with geometrical constraints in object space (Zhang, 2000).
Based on the least squares matching of straight-line template, the scheme introduces the geometrical constraints in
object space, which not only ensures the accuracy of the house reconstruction but also improves the reliability with the
features of good noise resistance.
4. Restoration of the visible surface texture of the house
4.1 Determination of Visibility of Wall Surface
Because the aerial image is central projection, the roof of the house is generally visible. But for the walls, some of them
are visible, called visible walls. Some are shadowed, called invisible walls. The texture of the former can be extracted
form the image while not of the latter. Therefore, it's necessary to determine the visibility of the walls to extract their
texture (Figure 6).
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Figure 6. Determination of Visibility of Wall Surface
The corner points on each surface of the house (roof or wall) should be numbered in certain order, to ensure that the
normal of each surface points to the outside of the house according to right-hand rule. Figure 6 (a) indicates that both
normal F of the front wall and normal R of the right wall point to the outside of the house. When these wall points are
projected into the image, the numbers of them should keep unchanged (Figure 6(b)). Now, the normal R of the
projection face of right wall surface on image is upward, towards the projection center, and thus it is visible. The
projection normal F of the front wall on image is downward, away form the projection center, and thus it is invisible.
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