Title
Merge-Swap Optimization Framework for Supervoxel Generation from Three-Dimensional Point Clouds.
Abstract
Surpervoxels are becoming increasingly popular in many point cloud processing applications. However, few methods have been devised specifically for generating compact supervoxels from unstructured three-dimensional (3D) point clouds. In this study, we aimed to generate high quality over-segmentation of point clouds. We propose a merge-swap optimization framework that solves any supervoxel generation problem formulated in energy minimization. In particular, we tailored an energy function that explicitly encourages regular and compact supervoxels with adaptive size control considering local geometric information of point clouds. We also provide two acceleration techniques to reduce the computational overhead. The performance of the proposed merge-swap optimization approach is superior to that of previous work in terms of thorough optimization, computational efficiency, and practical applicability to incorporating control of other properties of supervoxels. The experiments show that our approach produces supervoxels with better segmentation quality than two state-of-the-art methods on three public datasets.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.3390/rs12030473
REMOTE SENSING
Keywords
Field
DocType
supervoxel generation,point clouds,energy minimization,merging and swapping
Computer vision,Computer graphics (images),Artificial intelligence,Swap (finance),Geology,Point cloud,Merge (version control)
Journal
Volume
Issue
Citations 
12
3
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yanyang Xiao100.34
Zhonggui Chen2746.16
Zhengtao Lin300.34
Juan Cao4387.92
Yongjie Zhang529334.45
Yangbin Lin610.75
Cheng Wang721832.63