Inverse-Procedural Methods for Urban Models

Przemyslaw Musialski, Michael Wimmer
Inverse-Procedural Methods for Urban Models
In Proc. of 1st Eurographics Workshop on Urban Data Modelling and Visualisation, pages 31-32. 2013.
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Procedural modeling is an elegant and fast way to generate huge complex and realistically looking urban sites. Due to its generative nature it can also be referred to as forward-procedural modeling. Its major drawback is the usually quite complicated way of control. To overcome this difficulty a novel modeling paradigm has been introduced: it is commonly referred to as inverse procedural modeling, and its goal is to generate compact procedural descriptions of existing models---in the best case in an automatic manner as possible. These compact procedural representations can be used as a source for the synthesis of identical or similar objects, applied in various simulations and other studies of urban environments. We believe that this technology is still a widely unexplored ground and that it will prove itself as a very important tool in the reconstruction process. In this paper we sketch how inverse procedural modeling can be applied in the urban modeling field.

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@inproceedings{Musialski-2013-ipmum,
  title =      "Inverse-Procedural Methods for Urban Models",
  author =     "Przemyslaw Musialski and Michael Wimmer",
  year =       "2013",
  abstract =   "Procedural modeling is an elegant and fast way to generate
               huge complex and realistically looking urban sites. Due to
               its generative nature it can also be referred to as
               forward-procedural modeling. Its major drawback  is the
               usually quite complicated way of control. To overcome this
               difficulty a novel modeling paradigm has been introduced: it
               is commonly referred to as inverse procedural modeling, and
               its goal is to generate compact procedural descriptions of
               existing models---in the best case in an automatic manner as
               possible. These compact procedural representations can be
               used as a source for the synthesis of identical or similar
               objects, applied in various simulations and other studies of
               urban environments. We believe that this technology is still
               a widely unexplored ground and that it will prove itself as
               a very important tool in the reconstruction process. In this
               paper we sketch  how inverse procedural modeling can be
               applied in the urban modeling field.",
  pages =      "31--32",
  booktitle =  "Proc. of 1st Eurographics Workshop on Urban Data Modelling
               and Visualisation",
  editor =     "V. Tourre and G. Besuievsky",
  publisher =  "Eurographics Association",
  location =   "Girona, Spain",
  keywords =   "inverse procedural modeling, urban reconstruction, urban
               modeling",
  URL =        "http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/research/publications/2013/Musialski-2013-ipmum/",
}