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Record W4407356289 · doi:10.1080/17538947.2025.2458682

Points2Model: a neural-guided 3D building wireframe reconstruction from airborne LiDAR point clouds

2025· article· en· W4407356289 on OpenAlexaff
Perpetual Hope Akwensi, Akshay Bharadwaj, Ruisheng Wang

Bibliographic record

VenueInternational Journal of Digital Earth · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEarth and Planetary Sciences
Topic3D Surveying and Cultural Heritage
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Calgary
FundersNational Key Research and Development Program of China
KeywordsLidarPoint cloudRemote sensingGeographyComputer visionComputer sciencePoint (geometry)Artificial intelligenceComputer graphics (images)CartographyMathematicsGeometry

Abstract

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3D building wireframe models offer a simple, flexible, yet effective means of digitally representing real-world buildings with numerous application benefits. However, generating them from airborne LiDAR point clouds (APCs) is challenging due to issues like façade/roof occlusions, point density variations and noise. To create accurate building wireframe models effectively in the face of these issues, we propose explicitly learning to fill in the areas of occlusion in the APC and implicitly learning to enhance the point resolution via up-sampling for effective primitive extraction. To generate wireframe models from the up-sampled points, we developed a corner-edge hypothesis and selection strategy, where optimal corner and edge candidates and their accurate assembly are determined via a set of constraints. Experiments conducted on data from the Building3D dataset demonstrate that our proposed pipeline can effectively reconstruct wireframe models from APCs despite its challenges. Ablations and comparison with other existing methods further show the need for point completion and up-sampling processes in surface reconstruction pipelines.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.019
Threshold uncertainty score0.038

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.002
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0030.002
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.003

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.016
GPT teacher head0.248
Teacher spread0.231 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designSimulation or modeling
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2025
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