Title
Multi-Scale Local Context Embedding for LiDAR Point Cloud Classification
Abstract
The semantic interpretation using point clouds, especially regarding light detection and ranging (LiDAR) point cloud classification, has attracted a growing interest in the fields of photogrammetry, remote sensing, and computer vision. In this letter, we aim at tackling a general and typical feature learning problem in 3-D point cloud classification— <italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">how to represent geometric features by structurally considering a point and its surroundings in a more effective and discriminative fashion?</italic> Recently, enormous efforts have been made to design the geometric features, yet it is less investigated to fully explore the potentials of the features. For that, there have been many filter-based studies proposed by selecting a subset of the whole feature space for better representing the local geometry structure. However, such a hard-threshold selection strategy inevitably suffers from information loss. In addition, the construction of the geometric features is relatively sensitive to the size of the neighborhood. To this end, we propose to extract multi-scaled feature representations and locally embed them into a low-dimensional and robust subspace where a more compact representation with the intrinsic structure preservation of the data is expected to be obtained, thereby further yielding a better classification performance. In our case, we apply a popular manifold learning approach, that is, locality-preserving projections, for the task of learning low-dimensional embedding. Experimental results conducted on one LiDAR point cloud data set provided by the 2018 IEEE Data Fusion Contest demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method in comparison with several commonly used state-of-the-art baselines.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/LGRS.2019.2927779
IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters
Keywords
Field
DocType
Feature extraction,Three-dimensional displays,Laser radar,Task analysis,Training,Distance measurement,Geometry
Computer vision,Photogrammetry,Data mining,Feature vector,Subspace topology,Sensor fusion,Artificial intelligence,Nonlinear dimensionality reduction,Point cloud,Discriminative model,Mathematics,Feature learning
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
17
4
1545-598X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Rong Huang1386.09
Danfeng Hong218333.29
Yusheng Xu3357.56
Wei Yao416224.56
Uwe Stilla592.67