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    Background:

    • Urban environments are dynamic, requiring frequent updates to 3D models.
    • Existing methods for 3D model updates are often inefficient and costly.
    • Detecting structural changes accurately is crucial for maintaining up-to-date urban digital twins.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To develop an automated method for detecting structural changes in urban environments using panoramic imagery.
    • To optimize the process of updating 3D city models by focusing on areas with detected changes.
    • To create an algorithm that distinguishes structural changes from appearance variations and irrelevant objects.

    Main Methods:

    • Utilizing panoramic images captured by a car driving through a city.
    • Designing an algorithm to specifically identify structural changes, ignoring appearance changes and dynamic objects (cars, people).
    • Addressing challenges like inaccurate input geometry, geo-location errors, and sparse imagery for large-scale applications.

    Main Results:

    • The proposed method effectively detects structural changes in urban environments.
    • The algorithm successfully ignores appearance changes and irrelevant dynamic objects.
    • Evaluations on both small-scale (dense, high-resolution) and large-scale (sparse, low-resolution) datasets demonstrated the method's efficacy.

    Conclusions:

    • The developed method offers a significant optimization for updating 3D urban models.
    • It provides a robust solution for change detection in dynamic urban landscapes, even with imperfect data.
    • The approach is scalable and suitable for real-world applications in urban planning and management.