Realistic Façade Texturing of Digital Building Models

The market related to 3D geospatial information is drastically increasing especially in the current internet or mobile environments. Many famous companies, such as Google and Microsoft, are already providing lots of 3D geospatial information in such environments. One of the interesting 3D geospatial information is 3D building information. However, most of the 3D building models produced by such companies are through the manual procedures. In this regards, this paper suggests a more automated framework for the realistic façade texturing of 3D building models. Linear features such as wire-frame of a building are used for georeferencing of terrestrial images taken around the buildings in question. Afterwards, the texturing process is applied to the building models while considering occlusions and lens distortions. Conclusively, the results are shown in more realistic way through the proposed framework.