Obtaining structural descriptions of building façades
Author(s) -
Petar Vračar,
Igor Konko,
Marko Robnik–Šikonja
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
computer science and information systems
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.244
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 2406-1018
pISSN - 1820-0214
DOI - 10.2298/csis150222062v
Subject(s) - computer science , window (computing) , cover (algebra) , grammar , image (mathematics) , space (punctuation) , artificial intelligence , pattern recognition (psychology) , algorithm , operating system , mechanical engineering , linguistics , philosophy , engineering
We describe a method for learning and recognizing windows as basic structural elements of facades and organizing them into interpretable models of building facades. The method segments an input image into a hierarchical structure of window candidates. The candidates are used to create a likelihood map of window locations that is explained by a structural facade model based on a formal grammar. We use a look-ahead greedy search method in the grammar derivation space to select the (sub)optimal facade model. Empirical evaluation results reveal that, on average, the generated facade model covers 45% of the actual windows present in the input image. On the other hand, 56% of the modeled windows actually cover facade windows present in the input image.
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