A framework for street view texture refinement of LoD2 building model using roughly posed terrestrial photos

UAV-based oblique photogrammetric 3D reconstruction is widely utilized for large-scale urban modeling, and shop signs on the reconstructed models serve as vital elements for visualization and various urban research. However, the texture quality, particularly at street level, is often influenced by l...

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Main Authors: Yunlong Zheng, Xianfeng Huang, Liang Ge, Mao Ye, Wenxuan Liu, Fan Zhang, Hanyu Xiang, Zepeng Hou
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Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2025-08-01
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Online Access:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/17538947.2025.2483381
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Xianfeng Huang
Liang Ge
Mao Ye
Wenxuan Liu
Fan Zhang
Hanyu Xiang
Zepeng Hou
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Xianfeng Huang
Liang Ge
Mao Ye
Wenxuan Liu
Fan Zhang
Hanyu Xiang
Zepeng Hou
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description UAV-based oblique photogrammetric 3D reconstruction is widely utilized for large-scale urban modeling, and shop signs on the reconstructed models serve as vital elements for visualization and various urban research. However, the texture quality, particularly at street level, is often influenced by low resolution and occlusion, resulting in blurred and illegible shop signs. This paper proposes a framework to refine street view shop sign textures on LoD2 building models generated by oblique photogrammetry. Using building models and roughly posed terrestrial photos as input, the framework employs ray-mesh intersection for coarse image-to-model alignment, and then applies a multi-scale point-area fused image matching strategy for precise texture refinement. While designed with a specific POS device, it can adapt to systems providing pose data of similar or even lower accuracy. Both visual and statistical results demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach in enhancing texture quality and overall visual fidelity. The dataset used in this research is available at this URL.
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spelling doaj-art-81a8077c9b3c40ac866b2ac26f23242a2025-08-25T11:31:40ZengTaylor & Francis GroupInternational Journal of Digital Earth1753-89471753-89552025-08-0118110.1080/17538947.2025.2483381A framework for street view texture refinement of LoD2 building model using roughly posed terrestrial photosYunlong Zheng0Xianfeng Huang1Liang Ge2Mao Ye3Wenxuan Liu4Fan Zhang5Hanyu Xiang6Zepeng Hou7State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, Wuhan, People’s Republic of ChinaState Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, Wuhan, People’s Republic of ChinaTianjin Institute of Surveying and Mapping Company Limited, Tianjin, People’s Republic of ChinaState Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, Wuhan, People’s Republic of ChinaWuhan Daspatial Technology Co., Ltd., Wuhan, People’s Republic of ChinaState Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, Wuhan, People’s Republic of ChinaState Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, Wuhan, People’s Republic of ChinaState Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, Wuhan, People’s Republic of ChinaUAV-based oblique photogrammetric 3D reconstruction is widely utilized for large-scale urban modeling, and shop signs on the reconstructed models serve as vital elements for visualization and various urban research. However, the texture quality, particularly at street level, is often influenced by low resolution and occlusion, resulting in blurred and illegible shop signs. This paper proposes a framework to refine street view shop sign textures on LoD2 building models generated by oblique photogrammetry. Using building models and roughly posed terrestrial photos as input, the framework employs ray-mesh intersection for coarse image-to-model alignment, and then applies a multi-scale point-area fused image matching strategy for precise texture refinement. While designed with a specific POS device, it can adapt to systems providing pose data of similar or even lower accuracy. Both visual and statistical results demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach in enhancing texture quality and overall visual fidelity. The dataset used in this research is available at this URL.https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/17538947.2025.24833813D city modelingUAV-based oblique photogrammetrymodel texture refinementray-mesh intersectionimage matchingaerial-ground integration
spellingShingle Yunlong Zheng
Xianfeng Huang
Liang Ge
Mao Ye
Wenxuan Liu
Fan Zhang
Hanyu Xiang
Zepeng Hou
A framework for street view texture refinement of LoD2 building model using roughly posed terrestrial photos
International Journal of Digital Earth
3D city modeling
UAV-based oblique photogrammetry
model texture refinement
ray-mesh intersection
image matching
aerial-ground integration
title A framework for street view texture refinement of LoD2 building model using roughly posed terrestrial photos
title_full A framework for street view texture refinement of LoD2 building model using roughly posed terrestrial photos
title_fullStr A framework for street view texture refinement of LoD2 building model using roughly posed terrestrial photos
title_full_unstemmed A framework for street view texture refinement of LoD2 building model using roughly posed terrestrial photos
title_short A framework for street view texture refinement of LoD2 building model using roughly posed terrestrial photos
title_sort framework for street view texture refinement of lod2 building model using roughly posed terrestrial photos
topic 3D city modeling
UAV-based oblique photogrammetry
model texture refinement
ray-mesh intersection
image matching
aerial-ground integration
url https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/17538947.2025.2483381
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