Acta Optica Sinica, Volume. 38, Issue 10, 1028001(2018)

Large-Scale Scattered Point-Cloud Denoising Based on VG-DBSCAN Algorithm

Kai Zhao1、*, Youchun Xu2、*, Yongle Li2, and Rendong Wang1
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  • 1 Army Military Transportation University, Tianjin 300161, China
  • 2 Institute of Military Transportation, Tianjin 300161, China
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    Non-uniform 3D light detection and ranging (LiDAR) point-cloud data with outlier noises are not conducive to interframe point-cloud-matching in urban environments. Thus, an outlier noise filtering algorithm for large-scale scattered LiDAR point-cloud in urban environments is proposed. This algorithm improves the traditional density-based spatial clustering of applications with noise (DBSCAN) algorithm by applying voxel-grid partitioning to the three-dimensional point-cloud to create a set of grid cells, which greatly reduces the search scope of each object's neighborhood in the data-space range. The improved algorithm can quickly find each cluster, which separates the target point-cloud from the outliers, thus eliminating the outlier noise in the point-cloud. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm can process point-cloud data in real-time, ensure three-dimensional geometric features of point-cloud, effectively recognize and filter out outlier noise, reduce the scale of point-cloud, and speed up the subsequent processing efficiency of the point-cloud.Using this algorithm, the accuracy of matching between the frames is doubled, and the matching time is only one-third of the time before denoising.

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    Kai Zhao, Youchun Xu, Yongle Li, Rendong Wang. Large-Scale Scattered Point-Cloud Denoising Based on VG-DBSCAN Algorithm[J]. Acta Optica Sinica, 2018, 38(10): 1028001

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    Category: Remote Sensing and Sensors

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    Published Online: May. 9, 2019

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    DOI:10.3788/AOS201838.1028001

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