SCHOOL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
The School of Computer Science at the University of Windsor is pleased to present…
MSc Thesis Proposal by:
Sumit Khairnar
Date: Wednesday, April 24th, 2019
Time: 10: 00 am – 12:00 pm
Location: 3105, Lambton Tower
Abstract:
Along with the ever increasing popularity of virtual reality technology in recent years, 3D city models have been used in different applications, such as urban planning, disaster management, tourism, entertainment, and video games. Currently, those models are mainly reconstructed from access-restricted data sources such as LiDAR point clouds, airborne images, satellite images, and UAV (unmanned air vehicle) images with a focus on structural illustration of buildings’ contours and layouts. To help making 3D models closer to their counterparts in reality, this thesis research proposes a new approach for the automatic reconstruction of building models from open resources. In this approach, building shapes are first reconstructed by using the structural and geographic information retrievable from the open repository of OpenStreetMap (OSM). Images available from street view of Google maps are then used to extract information of the exterior appearance of buildings for texture mapping onto their boundaries. In addition to related work and details of the proposed algorithms, the presentation will also discuss about this work in relation to the on-going project of a much bigger system for self-driving vehicles.
Thesis Committee:
Internal Reader: Dr. Imran Ahmad
External Reader: Dr. Myron Hlynka
Advisor: Dr. Xiaobu Yuan
5113 Lambton Tower, 401 Sunset Ave, Windsor ON, N9B 3P4 (519) 253-3000 Ext. 3716 csgradinfo@uwindsor.ca