Facade Reconstruction of Destroyed Buildings Using Historical Photographs

ABSTRACT A methodology for the metric reconstruction of the planar surface of facades of destroyed buildings using historical single-view photographs has been presented in this work. The methodology is based on using a-priori object properties like linearity, parallelism, perpendicularity, symmetry etc. in addition to information extracted from the photographs. The methodology involves the determination of line segments and vanishing points and, if necessary, intrinsic camera calibration. The methodology may be a useful tool for tasks like documentation of historical architecture, surveying, and restoration. Reconstruction examples and results of facades of destroyed buildings are presented and error estimation results are given.