RegionGraph: Region-Aware Graph-Based Building Reconstruction from Satellite Imagery

Structural reconstruction helps infer the spatial relationships and object layouts in a scene, which is an essential computer vision task for understanding visual content. However, it remains challenging due to the high complexity of scene structural topologies in real-world environments. To address this challenge, this paper proposes RegionGraph, a novel method for structural reconstruction of buildings from a satellite image. It utilizes a layout region graph construction and graph contraction approach, introducing a primitive (layout region) estimation network named ConPNet for detecting and estimating different structural primitives. By combining structural extraction and rendering synthesis processes, RegionGraph constructs a graph structure with layout regions as nodes and adjacency relationships as edges, and transforms the graph optimization process into a node-merging-based graph contraction problem to obtain the final structural representation. The experiments demonstrated that RegionGraph achieves a 4% improvement in average F1 scores across three types of primitives and exhibits higher regional completeness and structural coherency in the reconstructed structure.