Evidence-gated multimodal parsing and vectorization of architectural floor plans

Hongxuan Chen, Wenda Wang, Jiachen Lu, Qirui Shen, Zilong Huang +3

Architectural floor plans remain a high-friction barrier to archive digitization and early design-model preparation because heterogeneous graphics encode spatial semantics and editable geometry together. We introduce SALI-FP, an evidence-gated multimodal pipeline that converts a plan into reviewable semantic maps, objects, vectors, and relation records while constraining local revisions by image evidence. In a full production audit of 11,534 heterogeneous plans, SALI-FP produced structured outputs for every plan, including 752,510 valid polygon-bearing objects. The same output form has supported initial drawing digitization and design-model preparation in practical design work. Public-benchmark calibration is paired with a 30-case matched visual evidence set in Appendix F, where room-scale coverage, openings, oblique boundaries, and circulation continuity can be inspected directly. SALI-FP offers an engineering-oriented interpretation-to-geometry workflow for reviewed CAD/BIM preparation and existing-building information recovery.