Title :
Automatic Room Detection and Room Labeling from Architectural Floor Plans
Author :
Ahmed, Sheraz ; Liwicki, Marcus ; Weber, Markus ; Dengel, Andreas
Author_Institution :
Knowledge Manage. Dept., German Res. Center for AI (DFKI), Kaiserslautern, Germany
Abstract :
This paper presents an automatic system for analyzing and labeling architectural floor plans. In order to detect the locations of the rooms, the proposed systems extracts both, structural and semantic information from given floor plans. Furthermore, OCR is applied on the text layer to retrieve the meaningful room labeling. Finally, a novel post-processing is proposed to split rooms into several sub-regions if several semantic rooms share the same physical room. Our fully automatic system is evaluated on a publicly available dataset of architectural floor plans. In our experiments, we could clearly outperform other state-of-the-art approaches for room detection.
Keywords :
architectural CAD; floors; image retrieval; optical character recognition; planning; structural engineering computing; text analysis; OCR; architectural floor plans; automatic room detection; physical room; publicly available dataset; room labeling; semantic information extraction; semantic rooms; structural information extraction; text layer; Accuracy; Buildings; Graphics; Image segmentation; Labeling; Semantics; Text analysis; architecture; floor plan analysis; room detection; structure analysis; symbol spotting; wall detection;
Conference_Titel :
Document Analysis Systems (DAS), 2012 10th IAPR International Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Gold Cost, QLD
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-0868-7
DOI :
10.1109/DAS.2012.22