# Building Facade Parsing R-CNN

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.05912 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2205.05912/

## Key facts

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- First posted on arXiv 12 May 2022.

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## Abstract (arXiv)

Building facade parsing, which predicts pixel-level labels for building facades, has applications in computer vision perception for autonomous vehicle (AV) driving. However, instead of a frontal view, an on-board camera of an AV captures a deformed view of the facade of the buildings on both sides of the road the AV is travelling on, due to the camera perspective. We propose Facade R-CNN, which includes a transconv module, generalized bounding box detection, and convex regularization, to perform parsing of deformed facade views. Experiments demonstrate that Facade R-CNN achieves better performance than the current state-of-the-art facade parsing models, which are primarily developed for frontal views. We also publish a new building facade parsing dataset derived from the Oxford RobotCar dataset, which we call the Oxford RobotCar Facade dataset. This dataset contains 500 street-view images from the Oxford RobotCar dataset augmented with accurate annotations of building facade objects. The published dataset is available at https://github.com/sijieaaa/Oxford-RobotCar-Facade