3D Rough Reconstruction of Buildings from Streetscape by Synergetic Stereo Matching

In this paper, a method to roughly reconstruct buildings in 3D space from a streetscape is proposed. The 3D reconstruction is based on a binocular stereo method called synergetic stereo matching. The proposed method is organized into three processes: extraction of buildings regions in each streetscape image, measurements of 3D distances for feature points in the buildings, and representation of a building by a matchbox model. The effectiveness of the proposed method was verified by experiments using actual streetscape images.