Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, Volume. 60, Issue 2, 0211001(2023)

Combined Filtering Algorithm for Extracting Bridge Point Cloud

Fan Gu1, Changlun Zhang1、*, Zhiguang Guo2, Hengyou Wang1, Qiang He1, and Tong An1
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  • 1Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Future Urban Design, Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Beijing 100044, China
  • 2China Construction Civil Engineering Co., Ltd., Beijing 100071, China
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    The point cloud data in the civil bridge construction scene includes a large number of vegetation, ground, and bridge construction point clouds. The extraction integrity of bridge buildings is still an issue for the existing filtering algorithms. This study proposes a bridge point cloud extraction algorithm based on combined filtering. First, the proposed algorithm applies the dispersion method to coarsely filter the vegetation by the feature of dispersion of vegetation point cloud distribution. Second, the radius filtering algorithm is improved to finely filter the residual vegetation point clouds based on the idea of radius filtering and making full use of color and elevation features. Finally, the ground point cloud is filtered using the normal filtering method. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm for extracting bridge point clouds has a 99.3% integrity rate and 0.73% error rate. When compared to existing filtering algorithms, the proposed algorithm extracts the bridge point cloud more completely and accurately.

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    Fan Gu, Changlun Zhang, Zhiguang Guo, Hengyou Wang, Qiang He, Tong An. Combined Filtering Algorithm for Extracting Bridge Point Cloud[J]. Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, 2023, 60(2): 0211001

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    Paper Information

    Category: Imaging Systems

    Received: Oct. 11, 2021

    Accepted: Nov. 16, 2021

    Published Online: Feb. 7, 2023

    The Author Email: Zhang Changlun (zclun@bucea.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/LOP212709

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