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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SCIENCE
Volume 29, Issue 10, Pages 1737-1756Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/13658816.2015.1041141
Keywords
navigation graph; geometry; algorithm; combinatorial map; indoor space; topology; semantics
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- US National Science Foundation [IIS-0916219]
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This article proposes a comprehensive approach to computing a navigation graph for an indoor space. It focuses on a single floor, but the work is easily extensible to multi-level spaces. The approach proceeds by using a formal model, based on the combinatorial map but enhanced with geometric and semantic information. The process is almost fully automatic, taking as input the building plans providing the geometric structure of the floors and semantics of the building, such as functions of interior spaces, portals, etc. One of the novel aspects in this work was the use of combinatorial maps and their duals to provide a compact formal description of the topology and connectivity of the indoor structure represented by a connected, embedded graph. While making use of existing libraries for the more routine computational geometry involved, the research develops several new algorithms, including one for computing the local kernel of a region. The process is evaluated by means of a case study using part of a university building.
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