Semi-Supervised Representative Region Texture Extraction of Façade
This work addresses a gap in facade modeling for background regions, offering a semi-supervised solution that reduces data requirements and is applicable to repetitive images beyond facades.
The paper tackles the problem of extracting representative region textures from facade images to enhance 3D facade modeling, achieving significant performance improvement over random cropping methods.
Researches of analysis and parsing around façades to enrich the 3D feature of façade models by semantic information raised some attention in the community, whose main idea is to generate higher resolution components with similar shapes and textures to increase the overall resolution at the expense of reconstruction accuracy. While this approach works well for components like windows and doors, there is no solution for façade background at present. In this paper, we introduce the concept of representative region texture, which can be used in the above modeling approach by tiling the representative texture around the façade region, and propose a semi-supervised way to do representative region texture extraction from a façade image. Our method does not require any additional labelled data to train as long as the semantic information is given, while a traditional end-to-end model requires plenty of data to increase its performance. Our method can extract texture from any repetitive images, not just façade, which is not capable in an end-to-end model as it relies on the distribution of training set. Clustering with weighted distance is introduced to further increase the robustness to noise or an imprecise segmentation, and make the extracted texture have a higher resolution and more suitable for tiling. We verify our method on various façade images, and the result shows our method has a significant performance improvement compared to only a random crop on façade. We also demonstrate some application scenarios and proposed a façade modeling workflow with the representative region texture, which has a better visual resolution for a regular façade.