Supervised automatic roof modeling

An automated method performed by at least one processor running computer executable instructions stored on at least one non-transitory computer readable medium, comprising:

• generating at least one hypothesis model of the roof by:
• classifying a first component and a second component of a roof with data points being part of, or extracted from at least one image, the first component and the second component having a ridge, at least one eave parallel to the ridge and a rectangular base, the ridge of the first component being a first ridge, and the ridge of the second component being a second ridge;
• determining type of configuration of the first ridge and the second ridge using common-crest component parameters;
• identifying evidence of a soft constraint and a hard constraint via the data points and associating the evidence with the first component and the second component;
• determining an overlapping relationship between the first component and the second component;
• transforming the hypothesis model into a three-dimensional model using an iterative optimization process;
• analyzing the three-dimensional model for edges representing outer boundaries of the roof;
• and,
• generating a roof report of the roof.

An automated computerized system, comprising:

• a computer system executing image display and analysis software reading:
• at least one image depicting an object of interest;
• supervisory feedback of at least one hard constraint or at least one soft constraint related to the object of interest in the image;
• and
• wherein the image display and analysis software executed by the computer system determines at least one hypothesis model having multiple components and information indicative of an overlapping relationship between the components, the components formed of a ridge, at least one eave, and a rectangular base, and the image display and analysis software performs at least one iterative optimization process on the hypothesis model such that the hypothesis model satisfies all of the at least one hard constraint or the at least one soft constraint, and wherein the hypothesis model is provided in a form of a list of the components including absolute locations and relative parameters of the components and rendered to form a scene model, the scene model parameterized to absolute components, and wherein the image display and analysis software executed by the computer system forms a three-dimensional model from the scene model, the three dimensional model capable of importation into a CAD program without additional supervisory feedback to the three-dimensional model.