Automatic Room Segmentation from Unstructured 3D Data of Indoor Environments

Abstract

We present an automatic approach for the task of reconstructing a 2D floor plan from unstructured point clouds of building interiors. Our approach emphasizes accurate and robust detection of building structural elements, and unlike previous approaches does not require prior knowledge of scanning device poses. The reconstruction task is formulated as a multiclass labeling problem that we approach using energy minimization. We use intuitive priors to define the costs for the energy minimization problem, and rely on accurate wall and opening detection algorithms to ensure robustness. We provide detailed experimental evaluation results, both qualitative and quantitative, against state of the art methods and labeled ground truth data.