| # STEM: Spatio-Temporal 3D Entity Matching Benchmark |
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| ## Construction Specification Document |
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| **Version**: 1.0 |
| **Date**: 2026-07-08 |
| **Authors**: ZRH Edu |
| **Target Venue**: VLDB Journal Special Issue on "Spatio-Temporal Data Management and Analytics: Machine Learning-based Solutions and Beyond" |
| **HuggingFace Repository**: https://huggingface.co/datasets/eduzrh/STEM |
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| ## Table of Contents |
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| 1. [Project Overview](#1-project-overview) |
| 2. [Research Motivation](#2-research-motivation) |
| 3. [Dataset Sources](#3-dataset-sources) |
| 4. [Benchmark Design](#4-benchmark-design) |
| 5. [Code Architecture](#5-code-architecture) |
| 6. [Environment Setup](#6-environment-setup) |
| 7. [Download Plan](#7-download-plan) |
| 8. [Preprocessing Pipeline](#8-preprocessing-pipeline) |
| 9. [Experimental Protocol](#9-experimental-protocol) |
| 10. [Delivery Checklist](#10-delivery-checklist) |
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| ## 1. Project Overview |
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| ### 1.1 Goal |
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| Build the first **spatio-temporal 3D entity matching benchmark** that enables rigorous evaluation of matching algorithms for 3D building objects across both **different data sources** (cross-source entity resolution) and **different time points** (temporal entity resolution). The benchmark is designed to support both **unsupervised** and **few-shot** entity matching paradigms. |
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| ### 1.2 Core Contributions |
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| | Contribution | Description | |
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| | **STEM-3D Benchmark** | Multi-epoch, multi-source 3D building entity matching dataset with ground-truth labels | |
| | **Disaster Simulation Pipeline** | Controllable CRS misalignment + structural damage for realistic post-disaster cross-time matching | |
| | **Spatio-Temporal Evaluation Suite** | Standardized metrics for cross-time, cross-source 3D entity matching | |
| | **Open-Source Toolkit** | Full codebase for reproduction, extending 3dSAGER to spatio-temporal setting | |
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| ### 1.3 Why 3D Entity Matching Matters |
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| Traditional entity matching (EM) operates on tabular records. However, real-world geospatial entities — buildings, bridges, infrastructure — are inherently 3D objects. Matching them across datasets is critical for: |
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| - **Disaster response**: Match pre-disaster and post-disaster building inventories to assess damage |
| - **Urban digital twins**: Fuse multi-source 3D city models (Overture, 3DBAG, OpenStreetMap, commercial providers) |
| - **Cadastral reconciliation**: Match building registrations across jurisdictions and over time |
| - **Infrastructure monitoring**: Track structural changes across satellite/airborne LiDAR surveys |
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| The **spatio-temporal** dimension adds unique challenges: |
| 1. Buildings can be **modified** (extensions, demolitions, renovations) between time points |
| 2. CRS (Coordinate Reference System) may differ between sources and epochs |
| 3. Geometric properties change with time (height reduction from damage, volume changes from extensions) |
| 4. No absolute coordinate alignment is available (post-disaster scenario) |
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| ## 2. Research Motivation |
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| ### 2.1 The Spatio-Temporal Entity Matching Problem |
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| **Definition (Strong Spatio-Temporal EM)**: Given two collections of 3D building objects S_A_t and S_B_t' from potentially different sources A, B and different time points t, t', find all matching pairs (a in S_A_t, b in S_B_t') where a and b refer to the same real-world building. |
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| **Key differences from standard EM**: |
| 1. **Coordinate-unaware matching**: Cannot rely on absolute coordinates (different CRS, post-disaster shift) |
| 2. **Temporal geometry drift**: Properties change between t and t' → geometric feature ratios deviate from 1.0 |
| 3. **Structural emergence/disappearance**: New buildings appear, old buildings are demolished |
| 4. **Cross-source schema heterogeneity**: Different LOD levels, attribute schemas, modeling conventions |
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| ### 2.2 The (ε, δ)-Systematic Discrepancy Framework |
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| Following the 3dSAGER paper, we formalize cross-source systematic discrepancy: |
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| > For any geometric property p, there exists a source-specific scaling factor F_S^p such that for all matching buildings: |
| > p_cand / p_index ≈ F_S^p |
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| In the spatio-temporal setting, we extend this to: |
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| > p_cand_t' / p_index_t ≈ F_S^p · F_T^p |
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| where F_S^p is the source discrepancy and F_T^p is the temporal change factor. |
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| ### 2.3 Methodological Approach |
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| We adopt and extend the **3dSAGER pipeline** for spatio-temporal entity matching: |
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| Raw 3D City Models (CityJSON/CityGML) → Preprocessing → Object Properties (25 geometric features) → Pairwise Feature Vectors (F÷ division operator) → BKAFI Blocking → ML Classifier (XGBoost, RF, etc.) → Rigid Alignment (RANSAC + SVD) → Final Matching |
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| **Key extensions for spatio-temporal**: |
| 1. **Temporal property delta features**: Δp = |p_t' - p_t| as additional features |
| 2. **Disaster-aware CRS simulation**: Random Z-rotation + damage (height reduction) for post-disaster scenarios |
| 3. **Multi-epoch evaluation**: Match across (t=2009, t'=2012/2015/2018) pairs |
| 4. **(ε, δ)-Temporal discrepancy tracking**: Measure F_T^p for each time gap |
| ## 3. Dataset Sources |
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| ### 3.1 Primary Dataset: Lyon Multi-Epoch 3D City Model |
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| **Source**: Métropole de Lyon Open Data + Zenodo |
| **Format**: CityGML LOD2 |
| **Temporal coverage**: 2009, 2012, 2015, 2018 (4 epochs, 9-year span) |
| **Coverage**: Lyon metropolitan area (59 communes) |
| **Key features**: |
| - Same source/provider across all epochs (minimizes cross-source artifacts) |
| - Known to contain real building changes (demolitions, new constructions, renovations) |
| - Already used in 3D change detection research |
| - CityGML format with semantic building parts |
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| | Epoch | Source | URL | Status | |
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| | 2009 | Zenodo | https://zenodo.org/record/3611354 | Open access | |
| | 2012 | Zenodo | https://zenodo.org/record/3611354 | Open access | |
| | 2015 | Zenodo | https://zenodo.org/record/3611354 | Open access | |
| | 2018 | Grand Lyon Portal | https://data.grandlyon.com | Open access | |
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| **Data characteristics**: |
| - CRS: EPSG:3946 (RGF93 / CC46) |
| - LOD: LOD2 (buildings with roof geometry, no detailed facade elements) |
| - Format: CityGML 2.0 |
| - Estimated building count: ~150,000–200,000 per epoch |
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| ### 3.2 Secondary Dataset: 3dSAGER Hague Benchmark |
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| **Source**: 3dSAGER project |
| **Format**: CityJSON |
| **Provider**: 3D BAG (Netherlands) |
| **Coverage**: The Hague, Netherlands |
| **Temporal**: Single epoch (2021/2022) with two co-registered sources (Source A, Source B) |
| **URL**: https://tinyurl.com/3dSAGERdataset |
| **Key features**: |
| - Provides **ground-truth match labels** across Source A/B |
| - Two sources with different LOD representations of the same area |
| - Used as baseline for cross-source evaluation (matching mode) |
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| **Benchmark statistics** (medium version): |
| - ~3,000–5,000 buildings |
| - 25 geometric properties per building |
| - Train/val/test split by spatial grid cells |
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| ### 3.3 Temporal POI Data (Auxiliary) |
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| **Source**: OpenStreetMap History API |
| **Purpose**: Ground-truth verification for POI-level temporal entity matching |
| **Entities**: Restaurants, shops, offices with temporal change logs |
| **Temporal resolution**: Daily snapshots |
| **Usage**: Validate temporal matching methodology at smaller scale |
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| ### 3.4 Dataset Summary Table |
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| | Dataset | Type | Buildings | Epochs | LOD | Format | Labels | |
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| | Lyon 2009–2018 | Primary | ~150K/epoch | 4 | LOD2 | CityGML | Build from persistence | |
| | Hague A/B | Baseline | ~4K | 1 (2 sources) | LOD1/LOD2 | CityJSON | Provided | |
| | OSM POI History | Auxiliary | ~5K POIs | Daily | N/A | GeoJSON | OSM IDs | |
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| ## 4. Benchmark Design |
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| ### 4.1 Task Taxonomy |
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| The STEM benchmark defines **three sub-tasks**: |
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| #### Task 1: Cross-Source 3D Entity Matching (Standard) |
| - **Input**: Source A buildings + Source B buildings (same epoch, different providers) |
| - **Goal**: Match corresponding buildings |
| - **Baseline dataset**: Hague A/B |
| - **Difficulty**: Cross-source schema heterogeneity (LOD differences) |
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| #### Task 2: Cross-Time 3D Entity Matching (Temporal) |
| - **Input**: Buildings from epoch t + buildings from epoch t' (t ≠ t', same provider) |
| - **Goal**: Match persistent buildings across time |
| - **Primary dataset**: Lyon 2009–2018 (6 time pairs: 2009→2012, 2009→2015, 2009→2018, 2012→2015, 2012→2018, 2015→2018) |
| - **Difficulty**: Temporal geometry drift, building modifications, demolitions/new constructions |
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| #### Task 3: Cross-Source + Cross-Time 3D Entity Matching (Full ST-EM) |
| - **Input**: Source A at epoch t + Source B at epoch t' |
| - **Goal**: Match buildings across both source and time |
| - **Constructed via**: Apply disaster simulation (CRS + damage) to cross-time pairs |
| - **Difficulty**: Maximum — both source and temporal discrepancies compound |
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| ### 4.2 Ground-Truth Label Construction |
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| For the Lyon multi-epoch dataset, we construct ground-truth labels as follows: |
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| 1. **Spatial persistence filter**: Buildings with centroid distance < 2m across epochs are candidates |
| 2. **Geometric consistency check**: Area ratio and volume ratio within [0.7, 1.3] → likely same building |
| 3. **Building ID tracking**: Use CityGML `gml:id` attributes where available (Lyon may have persistent IDs) |
| 4. **Manual sampling verification**: Random sample of 200 pairs per epoch gap for manual validation |
| 5. **Confidence tiers**: |
| - **High confidence**: Persistent CityGML ID + geometric consistency |
| - **Medium confidence**: Spatial + geometric consistency only |
| - **Low confidence**: Spatial proximity only (for hard negative mining) |
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| ### 4.3 Evaluation Metrics |
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| | Metric | Description | |
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| | **Precision** | TP / (TP + FP) | |
| | **Recall** | TP / (TP + FN) | |
| | **F1-Score** | Harmonic mean of Precision and Recall | |
| | **Recall@k** | Recall within top-k candidates per query building | |
| | **MRR** | Mean Reciprocal Rank | |
| | **Distance Recall** | Recall at spatial distance thresholds (10m, 25m, 50m) | |
| | **Temporal F1 Drop** | F1 degradation as time gap increases | |
| | **Cross-Source F1 Drop** | F1 degradation from single-source to cross-source matching | |
| | **Cross-Time F1 Drop** | F1 degradation from single-epoch to cross-epoch matching | |
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| ### 4.4 Training Regime Taxonomy |
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| | Regime | Training Data | Test Data | Setting | |
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| | **Supervised** | Labeled pairs from t→t' | Held-out pairs from same t→t' | Full labels available | |
| | **Few-shot** | K labeled pairs (K=5,10,20,50) | All remaining pairs | Scarce supervision | |
| | **Unsupervised (Zero-shot)** | No labels from target pair | All pairs from t→t' | Cross-epoch generalization | |
| | **Cross-epoch transfer** | Train on t1→t2, test on t3→t4 | Transfer to unseen epochs | Temporal generalization | |
| | **Cross-city transfer** | Train on Hague, test on Lyon | Transfer to unseen city | Geographic generalization | |
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| ### 4.5 Benchmark Splits |
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| ``` |
| STEM/ |
| ├── lyon/ |
| │ ├── 2009/, 2012/, 2015/, 2018/ # CityJSON-converted buildings |
| │ ├── labels/ # Ground-truth match pairs per epoch pair |
| │ └── splits/ # train/val/test CSV files |
| ├── hague/ |
| │ ├── source_a/, source_b/ |
| │ ├── labels.csv |
| │ └── splits/ |
| ├── disaster/ |
| │ ├── simulated/ # Disaster simulation outputs |
| │ └── configs/ # Simulation parameters |
| └── metadata/ |
| ├── dataset_card.md |
| ├── statistics.json |
| └── changelog.md |
| ``` |
| ## 5. Code Architecture |
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| ### 5.1 Repository Structure |
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| ``` |
| STEM/ |
| ├── README.md |
| ├── requirements.txt |
| ├── setup.py |
| ├── config/ |
| │ ├── default.yaml # Default configuration |
| │ ├── lyon.yaml # Lyon-specific config |
| │ ├── hague.yaml # Hague-specific config |
| │ └── disaster.yaml # Disaster simulation config |
| ├── src/ |
| │ ├── __init__.py |
| │ ├── data/ |
| │ │ ├── __init__.py |
| │ │ ├── download.py # Dataset downloader |
| │ │ ├── preprocess.py # CityJSON/GML conversion |
| │ │ ├── labels.py # Ground-truth label construction |
| │ │ └── splits.py # Train/val/test splitting |
| │ ├── features/ |
| │ │ ├── __init__.py |
| │ │ ├── properties.py # 3dSAGER geometric properties (extended) |
| │ │ ├── temporal.py # Temporal delta features |
| │ │ └── pairwise.py # Pairwise feature vectors |
| │ ├── matching/ |
| │ │ ├── __init__.py |
| │ │ ├── blocking.py # BKAFI + extended blocking methods |
| │ │ ├── classifier.py # ML classifier training |
| │ │ ├── alignment.py # RANSAC rigid alignment |
| │ │ └── disaster.py # Disaster simulation |
| │ ├── evaluation/ |
| │ │ ├── __init__.py |
| │ │ ├── metrics.py # Evaluation metrics |
| │ │ ├── analysis.py # Result analysis utilities |
| │ │ └── visualization.py # Plots and reports |
| │ └── utils/ |
| │ ├── __init__.py |
| │ ├── io.py # File I/O utilities |
| │ ├── geometry.py # Geometric computation helpers |
| │ └── logging.py # Experiment logging |
| ├── experiments/ |
| │ ├── baseline_hague.py # Reproduce 3dSAGER baseline |
| │ ├── cross_time_lyon.py # Cross-time matching experiments |
| │ ├── few_shot_benchmark.py # Few-shot evaluation |
| │ ├── zero_shot_benchmark.py # Unsupervised/zero-shot evaluation |
| │ └── disaster_scenario.py # Post-disaster matching |
| ├── notebooks/ |
| │ ├── 01_data_exploration.ipynb |
| │ ├── 02_feature_analysis.ipynb |
| │ └── 03_results_visualization.ipynb |
| ├── tests/ |
| │ ├── test_properties.py |
| │ ├── test_blocking.py |
| │ └── test_labels.py |
| └── docs/ |
| ├── api.md |
| ├── benchmark_guide.md |
| └── paper_figures/ |
| ``` |
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| ### 5.2 Key Design Decisions |
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| 1. **CityJSON as canonical format**: All datasets converted to CityJSON v1.1 for uniformity |
| 2. **Modular experiment scripts**: Each experiment type is a standalone script with YAML config |
| 3. **Reproducibility**: All random seeds logged; configs versioned with experiment outputs |
| 4. **HuggingFace Hub integration**: `push_to_hub()` calls in all data generation scripts |
| 5. **Streaming support**: Large CityJSON files use streaming parsing (ijson) |
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| ### 5.3 Extension Points |
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| | Extension | Location | Purpose | |
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| | New dataset | `src/data/preprocess.py` | Add CityJSON conversion for new cities | |
| | New feature | `src/features/properties.py` | Add geometric/temporal property | |
| | New blocking method | `src/matching/blocking.py` | Add candidate generation method | |
| | New classifier | `src/matching/classifier.py` | Add ML/DL model | |
| | New evaluation metric | `src/evaluation/metrics.py` | Add custom metric | |
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| ## 6. Environment Setup |
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| ### 6.1 Python Environment |
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| ```bash |
| # Core environment |
| Python 3.9+ (tested with 3.9–3.12) |
| pip install -r requirements.txt |
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| # Key dependencies (all installed via pip): |
| numpy==1.26.4 |
| pandas==2.3.2 |
| scikit-learn==1.6.1 |
| xgboost==2.1.4 |
| shapely==2.0.5 |
| pyproj==3.6.1 |
| geopandas==0.14.4 |
| faiss-cpu==1.9.0 |
| scipy==1.13.1 |
| joblib==1.5.2 |
| matplotlib==3.9.2 |
| tqdm==4.67.1 |
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| # Optional — PyTorch + CLIP (for ViT-based blocking): |
| torch>=2.0.0 |
| torchvision>=0.15.0 |
| clip (from OpenAI GitHub) |
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| # HuggingFace: |
| huggingface_hub>=0.20.0 |
| datasets>=2.14.0 |
| ``` |
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| ### 6.2 Disk Space Requirements |
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| | Item | Estimated Size | |
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| | Lyon 2009 CityGML | ~2–5 GB (compressed) | |
| | Lyon 2012 CityGML | ~2–5 GB (compressed) | |
| | Lyon 2015 CityGML | ~2–5 GB (compressed) | |
| | Lyon 2018 CityGML | ~2–5 GB (compressed) | |
| | Hague benchmark (A + B) | ~500 MB | |
| | Processed CityJSON files | ~2–3 GB per epoch | |
| | Feature caches (joblib) | ~200 MB per epoch | |
| | Model files | ~50 MB | |
| | **Total estimated** | **~25–40 GB** | |
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| ## 7. Download Plan |
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| ### 7.1 Step-by-Step Download Procedure |
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| #### Phase 1: Hague Baseline Dataset (Priority: HIGH) |
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| The 3dSAGER dataset contains The Hague buildings in CityJSON format, split into Source A and Source B directories. This is the baseline benchmark used in the 3dSAGER paper. |
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| URL: https://tinyurl.com/3dSAGERdataset |
| Expected output: data/hague/source_a/*.json, data/hague/source_b/*.json |
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| #### Phase 2: Lyon Multi-Epoch Dataset (Priority: HIGH) |
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| **Lyon 2009, 2012, 2015 from Zenodo**: https://zenodo.org/record/3611354 |
| Contains CityGML files for Lyon arrondissements across three historic versions. |
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| **Lyon 2018 from Grand Lyon Portal**: |
| https://data.grandlyon.com/jeux-de-donnees/maquettes-3d-texturees-2018-communes-metropole-lyon/donnees |
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| #### Phase 3: Optional Additional Data |
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| - 3DBAG historical versions (API: https://api.3dbag.nl/) |
| - OSM POI History (Overpass API with date filters) |
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| ### 7.2 Download Verification |
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| - SHA256 hashes recorded for all downloaded files |
| - Building counts cross-referenced with published statistics |
| - Spatial extent and CRS validation |
| ## 8. Preprocessing Pipeline |
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| ### 8.1 CityGML → CityJSON Conversion |
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| ``` |
| CityGML (.gml/.xml) |
| ↓ citygml-tools or custom parser |
| CityJSON (.json) |
| ↓ CRS unification → EPSG:7415 (or local UTM) |
| ↓ Centroid computation |
| ↓ Building-only filtering |
| ↓ Attribute standardization |
| ↓ Save as joblib/.pkl cache |
| ``` |
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| **Tools**: |
| - `citygml-tools` (Java CLI): `citygml-tools to-cityjson input.gml` |
| - `cityjson` Python package: for validation and manipulation |
| - Alternative: `cjio` Python package |
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| ### 8.2 Ground-Truth Label Construction |
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| ``` |
| For each epoch pair (ti, tj): |
| ├── Load buildings from ti and tj |
| ├── Compute pairwise centroid distances |
| ├── Filter: distance < 2m → candidate matches |
| ├── Compute geometric consistency (area, volume ratios) |
| ├── Filter: ratio ∈ [0.7, 1.3] → probable matches |
| ├── Check CityGML ID persistence (if available) |
| ├── Assign confidence tier (high/medium/low) |
| ├── Manual sampling for verification (200 pairs) |
| └── Output: pairs CSV with [id_ti, id_tj, confidence, area_ratio, volume_ratio, distance] |
| ``` |
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| ### 8.3 Feature Extraction |
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| For each building, extract 25 geometric properties (from 3dSAGER): |
| - **Size**: area, perimeter, volume, convex_hull_area, convex_hull_volume |
| - **Shape**: compactness_2d, compactness_3d, cubeness, hemisphericality, fractality |
| - **Dimensions**: bounding_box_width/length, aligned_bounding_box_width/length/height |
| - **Distribution**: density, elongation, shape_ind, axes_symmetry, num_vertices, circumference |
| - **Context**: ave_centroid_distance, height_diff, num_floors, perimeter_ind |
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| **Temporal extension** (new for STEM): |
| - `delta_area`: |area_ti - area_tj| / area_ti |
| - `delta_volume`: |volume_ti - volume_tj| / volume_ti |
| - `delta_height`: |height_ti - height_tj| / height_ti |
| - `delta_compactness_3d`: same for compactness |
| - `time_gap_months`: temporal distance between epochs |
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| ### 8.4 Disaster Simulation (for Task 3) |
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| ```python |
| DisasterSimulator: |
| CRS Simulation: |
| - Random Z-axis rotation: θ ~ Uniform(0, 360°) |
| - Random translation: t ~ Uniform(-100km, +100km) in X, Y |
| - Applied to all candidate buildings |
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| Damage Simulation: |
| - Per-building probability: P = 0.8 |
| - Height reduction factor: f ~ Uniform(0.3, 0.95) |
| - Modified height = original_height × f |
| - Propagate to volume, convex_hull_volume, compactness_3d |
| ``` |
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| ## 9. Experimental Protocol |
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| ### 9.1 Baseline Experiment (Task 1: Cross-Source) |
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| | Parameter | Value | |
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| | Dataset | Hague (Source A vs Source B) | |
| | Features | 25 geometric properties | |
| | Feature operator | Division (F÷) | |
| | Blocking method | BKAFI | |
| | Classifier | XGBoost | |
| | Train:Val:Test | 60:20:20 | |
| | Evaluation | Precision, Recall, F1, Recall@k | |
| | Seeds | 5 | |
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| ### 9.2 Cross-Time Experiment (Task 2) |
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| | Parameter | Value | |
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| | Dataset | Lyon (6 epoch pairs) | |
| | Train:Val:Test | 60:20:20 (per epoch pair) | |
| | Features | 25 geometric + 5 temporal delta | |
| | Classifier | XGBoost, GradientBoosting, RF, MLP | |
| | Evaluation mode | matching + blocking | |
| | Key analysis | F1 vs. time gap, property drift vs. time gap | |
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| ### 9.3 Few-Shot Experiment |
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| | Shots | Setting | |
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| | K = 5 | 5 labeled pairs per epoch pair | |
| | K = 10 | 10 labeled pairs | |
| | K = 20 | 20 labeled pairs | |
| | K = 50 | 50 labeled pairs | |
| | K = 100 | 100 labeled pairs | |
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| ### 9.4 Full ST-EM Experiment (Task 3) |
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| | Parameter | Value | |
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| | Base data | Lyon cross-time pairs | |
| | Simulation | CRS rotation + damage | |
| | Alignment | RANSAC rigid alignment | |
| | Re-scoring | α × geometric + (1-α) × spatial | |
| | Evaluation | Distance-based recall (10m, 25m, 50m) | |
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| ### 9.5 Unsupervised/Zero-Shot Experiment |
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| | Setting | Description | |
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| | Cross-epoch transfer | Train on 2009→2012, test on 2015→2018 | |
| | Cross-city transfer | Train on Hague, test on Lyon (adapt features) | |
| | Property-ratio heuristic | F÷ operator + clustering, no labels | |
| ## 10. Delivery Checklist |
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| ### 10.1 Phase 1: Infrastructure (Current) |
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| - [x] 3dSAGER codebase cloned and analyzed |
| - [x] Python environment with all dependencies installed |
| - [x] HuggingFace repo initialized and configured |
| - [x] Specification document written (this file) |
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| ### 10.2 Phase 2: Data Acquisition |
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| - [x] Download 3dSAGER Hague dataset (Source A: 309MB, 36 CityJSON files; Source B: partial, 3 files) |
| - [ ] Complete Source B download (remaining CityJSON files) |
| - [ ] Download Lyon 2009-2015 from Zenodo (395 MB zip) |
| - [ ] Download Lyon 2018 from Grand Lyon portal |
| - [ ] Verify all downloads (counts, CRS, integrity) |
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| ### 10.3 Phase 3: Preprocessing |
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| - [ ] Convert Lyon CityGML → CityJSON |
| - [ ] Unify CRS across all epochs |
| - [ ] Extract building geometries and compute centroids |
| - [ ] Generate geometric properties per building |
| - [ ] Cache processed data as joblib files |
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| ### 10.4 Phase 4: Benchmark Construction |
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| - [ ] Construct ground-truth labels for all 6 Lyon epoch pairs |
| - [ ] Manual verification of random samples |
| - [ ] Generate train/val/test splits |
| - [ ] Compute dataset statistics |
| - [ ] Write dataset card (README.md for HuggingFace) |
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| ### 10.5 Phase 5: Baseline Experiments |
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| - [ ] Run 3dSAGER baseline on Hague dataset (reproduce paper results) |
| - [ ] Run cross-time matching on Lyon (supervised) |
| - [ ] Run few-shot experiments (K = 5, 10, 20, 50) |
| - [ ] Run disaster scenario (CRS + damage + alignment) |
| - [ ] Run unsupervised transfer experiments |
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| ### 10.6 Phase 6: Upload & Documentation |
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| - [ ] Upload all data to HuggingFace (eduzrh/STEM) |
| - [ ] Upload all code to HuggingFace |
| - [ ] Upload experiment results and logs |
| - [ ] Write paper-ready result tables and figures |
| - [ ] Push specification document |
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| ### 10.7 Phase 7: Paper Writing |
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| - [ ] Draft VLDBJ paper outline |
| - [ ] Write methodology section |
| - [ ] Generate all figures and tables |
| - [ ] Write experiments and results |
| - [ ] Polish and submit |
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| ## Appendix A: Risk Analysis |
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| | Risk | Probability | Impact | Mitigation | |
| |---|---|---|---| |
| | Lyon data not downloadable | Low | High | Fall back to synthetic multi-epoch from 3DBAG versions | |
| | CityGML IDs not persistent | Medium | Medium | Use geometric + spatial heuristics for labeling | |
| | CityGML→CityJSON conversion fails | Low | Medium | Use `citygml-tools` Java tool as backup | |
| | HuggingFace storage limits | Low | Low | Use Git LFS for large files; tier upgrade if needed | |
| | Lyon building count too large | Medium | Medium | Use spatial subset (1–2 arrondissements) | |
| | Disk space insufficient for Lyon | Medium | High | Use GPU machine with SSD; process per-arrondissement | |
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| ## Appendix B: Timeline |
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| | Week | Milestone | |
| |---|---| |
| | Week 1 | Environment setup, data download, preprocessing | |
| | Week 2 | Benchmark construction, baseline experiments | |
| | Week 3 | Full experiments, result analysis | |
| | Week 4 | Paper writing, final uploads | |
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| ## Appendix C: Lyon Zenodo Data Details |
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| - **Zenodo Record**: https://zenodo.org/record/3611354 |
| - **File**: `Lyon_2009-2012-2015_Splitted_Stripped.zip` (394.9 MB compressed, ~50.9 GB uncompressed) |
| - **MD5**: `74b4610a11d9ca37951f5de2b747794f` |
| - **Content**: CityGML LOD2 buildings for Lyon, split by arrondissement, across 3 epochs (2009, 2012, 2015) |
| - **Preprocessing**: Original data had structural issues resolved; texture coordinates removed |
| - **2018 data**: Separate download from Grand Lyon Open Data Portal |
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| ## Appendix D: Hague Dataset Details |
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| - **Google Drive Folder**: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/11dC2jn9fajcn2W0LWKBCgyuBxabkz4WU |
| - **Structure**: |
| - `RawCitiesData/The Hague/Source A/` — CityJSON files covering all wijks (36 files, ~309 MB) |
| - `RawCitiesData/The Hague/Source B/` — CityJSON files (3+ files, ~21 MB so far) |
| - `dataset_partitions/` — Pre-computed train/val/test splits (3 seed files) |
| - **CRS**: EPSG:7415 (Amersfoort / RD New + NAP height) |
| - **Format**: CityJSON v1.0/v1.1 |
| - **LOD**: Mixed LOD1/LOD2 |
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