Building3D: An Urban-Scale Dataset and Benchmarks for Learning Roof
  Structures from Point Clouds
Ruisheng Wang Shangfeng Huang Hongxin Yang
Urban modeling from LiDAR point clouds is an important topic in computer
vision, computer graphics, photogrammetry and remote sensing. 3D city models
have found a wide range of applications in smart cities, autonomous navigation,
urban planning and mapping etc. However, existing datasets for 3D modeling
mainly focus on common objects such as furniture or cars. Lack of building
datasets has become a major obstacle for applying deep learning technology to
specific domains such as urban modeling. In this paper, we present a
urban-scale dataset consisting of more than 160 thousands buildings along with
corresponding point clouds, mesh and wire-frame models, covering 16 cities in
Estonia about 998 Km2. We extensively evaluate performance of state-of-the-art
algorithms including handcrafted and deep feature based methods. Experimental
results indicate that Building3D has challenges of high intra-class variance,
data imbalance and large-scale noises. The Building3D is the first and largest
urban-scale building modeling benchmark, allowing a comparison of supervised
and self-supervised learning methods. We believe that our Building3D will
facilitate future research on urban modeling, aerial path planning, mesh
simplification, and semantic/part segmentation etc.