Optical Technique, Volume. 51, Issue 2, 240(2025)

Fusion of LiDAR point cloud and monocular vision for variable height target height measurement

DENG Longbao1, CHEN Maolin1,2,3、*, PAN Jianping1, and JI Cuicui1
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  • 1School of Smart City, Chongqing Jiaotong University, Chongqing 400074, China
  • 2Chongqing Key Laboratory of Spatio-temporal Information in Mountain Cities, Chongqing 400074, China
  • 3Technology Innovation Center for Spatio-temporal Information and Equipment of Intelligent City, Ministry of Natural Resources, Chongqing 401121, China
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    Traditional monocular vision altimetry methods generally have limitations in terms of the camera's setup orientation and lack sufficient research on the height measurement of off-ground objects. To address this issue, an innovative height measurement method is proposed. The proposed method integrates LiDAR point clouds and monocular vision technology, uses geometric imaging as its theoretical foundation, incorporates prior knowledge from the point cloud data of the measured target, and applies geometric transformations to measure the height of objects on arbitrary planes. Additionally, it can accurately monitor the height of objects over time. A Xiaomi smartphone (model Xiaomi 13) was used as the experimental device, and the heights of five prisms were adjusted and measured over three rounds of testing. The experimental results indicate that the maximum relative error for a single prism is 6.559%, with an average error of 4.064%. For other target objects in the experimental environment, the height measurement accuracy reaches 98.043%.

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    DENG Longbao, CHEN Maolin, PAN Jianping, JI Cuicui. Fusion of LiDAR point cloud and monocular vision for variable height target height measurement[J]. Optical Technique, 2025, 51(2): 240

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    Received: Jun. 25, 2024

    Accepted: Apr. 22, 2025

    Published Online: Apr. 22, 2025

    The Author Email: CHEN Maolin (maolinchen@cqjtu.edu.cn)

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