PLoS ONE (Jan 2017)

Automatic structural scene digitalization.

  • Rui Tang,
  • Yuhan Wang,
  • Darren Cosker,
  • Wenbin Li

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0187513
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 11
p. e0187513

Abstract

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In this paper, we present an automatic system for the analysis and labeling of structural scenes, floor plan drawings in Computer-aided Design (CAD) format. The proposed system applies a fusion strategy to detect and recognize various components of CAD floor plans, such as walls, doors, windows and other ambiguous assets. Technically, a general rule-based filter parsing method is fist adopted to extract effective information from the original floor plan. Then, an image-processing based recovery method is employed to correct information extracted in the first step. Our proposed method is fully automatic and real-time. Such analysis system provides high accuracy and is also evaluated on a public website that, on average, archives more than ten thousands effective uses per day and reaches a relatively high satisfaction rate.