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    Robust Segmentation for Large Volumes of Laser Scanning Three-Dimensional Point Cloud Data

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    Nurunnabi, Abdul
    Belton, David
    West, Geoff
    Date
    2016
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Nurunnabi, A. and Belton, D. and West, G. 2016. Robust Segmentation for Large Volumes of Laser Scanning Three-Dimensional Point Cloud Data. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 54 (8): pp. 4790-4805.
    Source Title
    IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
    DOI
    10.1109/TGRS.2016.2551546
    ISSN
    0196-2892
    School
    Department of Spatial Sciences
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/63211
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    This paper investigates the problems of outliers and/or noise in surface segmentation and proposes a statistically robust segmentation algorithm for laser scanning 3-D point cloud data. Principal component analysis (PCA)-based local saliency features, e.g., normal and curvature, have been frequently used in many ways for point cloud segmentation. However, PCA is sensitive to outliers; saliency features from PCA are nonrobust and inaccurate in the presence of outliers; consequently, segmentation results can be erroneous and unreliable. As a remedy, robust techniques, e.g., RANdom SAmple Consensus (RANSAC), and/or robust versions of PCA (RPCA) have been proposed. However, RANSAC is influenced by the well-known swamping effect, and RPCA methods are computationally intensive for point cloud processing. We propose a region growing based robust segmentation algorithm that uses a recently introduced maximum consistency with minimum distance based robust diagnostic PCA (RDPCA) approach to get robust saliency features. Experiments using synthetic and laser scanning data sets show that the RDPCA-based method has an intrinsic ability to deal with outlier-and/or noise-contaminated data. Results for a synthetic data set show that RDPCA is 105 times faster than RPCA and gives more accurate and robust results when compared with other segmentation methods. Compared with RANSAC and RPCA based methods, RDPCA takes almost the same time as RANSAC, but RANSAC results are markedly worse than RPCA and RDPCA results. Coupled with a segment merging algorithm, the proposed method is efficient for huge volumes of point cloud data consisting of complex objects surfaces from mobile, terrestrial, and aerial laser scanning systems.

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