Overview

RoofVIP v1.0.0.0 is the original Munich release. It combines 20 cm very-high-resolution RGB orthophotos with manually created roof annotations intended for geometry-aware building-roof research.

Data content

Tiled aerial image patches centered on individual buildings.
RGB imagery derived from DOP20 RGB data.
Manual roof annotations following LoD2-oriented roof-plane geometry.
Polygon annotations stored in NumPy (.npy) format.
Stable RoofVIP building identifiers for correspondence with compatible extensions.

Intended research use

The release is designed to support roof segmentation, vectorization, structured geometry learning, and roof reconstruction experiments.

Source imagery

The source imagery is provided by the Bavarian Surveying Administration (Bayerische Vermessungsverwaltung) through Bavarian Open Geodata.

Contributors

Chaikal Amrullah, Daniel Panangian, Guneet Mutreja, Youssef Abdelhedi, and Ksenia Bittner — German Aerospace Center (DLR).

Known issues and changes

This section will record release-specific corrections or limitations without silently changing the historical release definition.

Citation

When using RoofVIP v1.0.0.0, please cite the associated publication:

Amrullah, C., Panangian, D., Mutreja, G., Abdelhedi, Y., and Bittner, K.: RoofVIP Benchmark Dataset: 2D Roof Planar Polygons and Very High-Resolution Digital Orthophotos Pairs for Building Roof Reconstruction, ISPRS Ann. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., XI-2-2026, 207–216, 2026. https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-annals-XI-2-2026-207-2026

The archived dataset release is available from Zenodo. See the citation guide for release-level citation guidance.