Simplification of 3D City Models Based on K-Means Clustering

Abstract

With the development of smart cities, 3D city models have expanded from simple visualization to more applications. However, the data volume of 3D city models is also increasing at the same time, which brings great pressure to data storage and visualization. Therefore, it is necessary to simplify 3D models. In this paper, a three-step simplification method is proposed. Firstly, the geometric features of the building are used to extract the walls and roof of the building separately, and then the ground plan and the single-layer roof are extracted by the K-Means clustering algorithm. Finally, the ground plan is raised to intersect with the roof polygon to form a simplified three-dimensional city model. In this paper, experiments are carried out on a certain number of 3D city models of CityGML format. The compression ratio of model data is 92.08%, the simplification result shows better than others.