Title
On the segmentation of 3D LIDAR point clouds.
Abstract
This paper presents a set of segmentation methods for various types of 3D point clouds. Segmentation of dense 3D data (e. g. Riegl scans) is optimised via a simple yet efficient voxelisation of the space. Prior ground extraction is empirically shown to significantly improve segmentation performance. Segmentation of sparse 3D data (e. g. Velodyne scans) is addressed using ground models of non-constant resolution either providing a continuous probabilistic surface or a terrain mesh built from the structure of a range image, both representations providing close to real-time performance. All the algorithms are tested on several hand labeled data sets using two novel metrics for segmentation evaluation.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1109/ICRA.2011.5979818
ICRA
Keywords
Field
DocType
image resolution,image segmentation,mesh generation,optical radar,probability,radar imaging,3D LIDAR point cloud segmentation,continuous probabilistic surface,ground extraction,nonconstant resolution,segmentation evaluation,sparse 3D data segmentation,terrain mesh
Data modeling,Computer vision,Scale-space segmentation,Segmentation,Segmentation-based object categorization,Image segmentation,Artificial intelligence,Probabilistic logic,Engineering,Point cloud,Image resolution
Conference
Volume
Issue
ISSN
2011
1
1050-4729
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
108
4.40
15
Authors
7
Search Limit
100108
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Bertrand Douillard128620.50
James Patrick Underwood244239.37
Noah Kuntz31135.20
Vsevolod Vlaskine41316.19
Alastair James Quadros51486.91
Peter Morton61255.57
Alon Frenkel71084.40