3D models of indoor environments are essential for many application domains such as navigation guidance, emergency management and a range of indoor location-based services. The principal components defined in different BIM standards contain not only building elements, such as floors, walls and doors, but also navigable spaces and their topological relations, which are essential for path planning and navigation. We present an approach to automatically reconstruct topological relations between navigable spaces from point clouds. Three types of topological relations, namely containment, adjacency and connectivity of the spaces are modelled. The results of initial experiments demonstrate the potential of the method in supporting indoor navigation.
The same method is applied in REF to automatically extract topological relations between indoor spaces for indoor navigation.
EXTRACTING TOPOLOGICAL RELATIONS BETWEEN INDOOR SPACES FROM POINT CLOUDS
ISPRS Annals of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences
ISPRS Annals of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences
Computer Science