Research on Incremental Geometrical Reconstruction Method of Building Structures Based on Point Clouds

Abstract

With the development of intelligent unmanned systems, it is important for indoor mobile mapping and structural perception to reconstruct building structures in a timely manner from sequential LiDAR point clouds. However, many existing reconstruction methods rely on complete or accumulated point clouds, making them less suitable for partial observations, occlusions, and continuous updates. This paper proposes an incremental geometric reconstruction framework for building structures based on LiDAR point clouds. The method combines temporal state inheritance and orthogonal projection to transform 3D point-cloud processing into 2D plane-based contour updating. A transmissive relationship-based hole detection strategy is introduced to preserve real openings such as doors and windows while completing partially unobserved regions. Simulation and real-world experiments show that the proposed method can recover major planar building structures. In the simulation scene, the proposed method achieves a CD-L1 of 0.088 m, a CD-L2 of 0.007 m2, and an F1-score of 0.901, with an average single-frame processing time of 1.02 s. The experimental results indicate that the proposed method provides a compact and interpretable plane-based structural representation for near-real-time incremental reconstruction of building structures from sequential LiDAR point clouds.