ABSTRACT:We focus on a region-based point clustering to extract a polygon from a massive point cloud. In the region-based clustering, RANSAC is a suitable approach for estimating surfaces. However, local workspace selection is required to improve a performance in a surface estimation from a massive point cloud. Moreover, the conventional RANSAC is hard to determine whether a point lies inside or outside a surface. In this paper, we propose a method for panoramic rendering-based polygon extraction from indoor mobile LiDAR data. Our aim was to improve region-based point cloud clustering in modeling after point cloud registration. First, we propose a point cloud clustering methodology for polygon extraction on a panoramic range image generated with point-based rendering from a massive point cloud. Next, we describe an experiment that was conducted to verify our methodology with an indoor mobile mapping system in an indoor environment. This experiment was wall-surface extraction using a rendered point cloud from some viewpoints over a wide indoor area. Finally, we confirmed that our proposed methodology could achieve polygon extraction through point cloud clustering from a complex indoor environment.
Human inspection of defects of concrete tunnel lining is usually slow, laborious, and disruptive to traffic. This necessitates automated alternatives using sensors and computer-aided processing. The conventional image-matching methods only use the cost value of the pixel being processed based on similarity metric to estimate an image-matching location. To improve the image-matching efficiency, this paper proposes an image-matching method that relies on the curvatures of the cost curve at candidate matching points. This is followed by applying a median filter to mitigate the matching errors. Moreover, experimental results for an actual tunnel demonstrate that the curvature measurement can select the matching points accurately. The authors have developed an image-stitching software to create a high-resolution panorama of the tunnel lining surface for assisting in defect inspection.
ABSTRACT:In this paper, we propose a method for panoramic point-cloud rendering-based polygon extraction from indoor mobile LiDAR data. Our aim was to improve region-based point-cloud clustering in modeling after point-cloud registration. First, we propose a pointcloud clustering methodology for polygon extraction on a panoramic range image generated with point-based rendering from a massive point cloud. Next, we describe an experiment that was conducted to verify our methodology with an indoor mobile mapping system in an indoor environment. This experiment was wall-surface extraction using a rendered point-cloud from 64 viewpoints over a wide indoor area. Finally, we confirmed that our proposed methodology could achieve polygon extraction through point-cloud clustering from a complex indoor environment.
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