In recent years, digital twins and semantic 3D city models have become increasingly
important for urban analysis, simulation, and planning. Among the available
standards, CityGML 3.0 offers a detailed and flexible framework for representing buildings,
including their interior spaces. Despite this, generating semantically structured
indoor models in an automated way remains difficult, especially when working with
heterogeneous data sources such as georeferenced point clouds and 2D CAD floor plans.
Many existing methods rely either on concentrating mainly on geometric reconstruction
or heavily on manual editing, which limits their scalability and practical usability.
In order to create and enhance CityGML 3.0 indoor models, this thesis suggests an
automated workflow that combines point cloud data with CAD-based floor layouts. The
fundamental idea is to combine height information taken from 3D point cloud data with
reliable boundary information from 2D floor layouts. This method allows for the more
constant reconstruction of structural elements such walls, floors, ceilings, and openings.
Coordinate alignment, vertical dimension derivation, spatial relationship detection, and
the creation of hierarchical and topological structures necessary for the CityGML indoor
model are all addressed by the created processing pipeline.
The workflow focuses primarily on generating the building’s outer shell at Level
of Detail 2 (LoD2) and indoor building blocks at Level of Detail 1 (LoD1). Also,
exploring how this approach could be extended toward more detailed room-level representations
at LoD1. Automated feature extraction, semantic enrichment, and the correct
representation of spatial relationships among building elements are key to this approach.
The overall goal of the suggested method is to facilitate the creation of indoor
models for digital twin applications that are more scalable and repeatable. The findings
show that a workable method for creating semantically structured, standards-compliant
CityGML indoor models while greatly lowering the requirement for manual modeling
procedures is to integrate 2D CAD geometry with 3D point cloud data.
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In recent years, digital twins and semantic 3D city models have become increasingly
important for urban analysis, simulation, and planning. Among the available
standards, CityGML 3.0 offers a detailed and flexible framework for representing buildings,
including their interior spaces. Despite this, generating semantically structured
indoor models in an automated way remains difficult, especially when working with
heterogeneous data sources such as georeferenced point clouds and 2D CAD floor...
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