Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, Volume. 61, Issue 24, 2415001(2024)

Photon-Counting Lidar Point Cloud Filtering Using a Backpropagation Neural Network

Shiao Yu1,3、*, Wei Kong2,3, Rujia Ma1,2,3, and Genghua Huang1,2,3
Author Affiliations
  • 1Hangzhou Institute for Advanced Study, UCAS, Hangzhou 310024, Zhejiang , China
  • 2Key Laboratory of Space Active Opto-Electronics Technology, Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200083, China
  • 3ChinaUniversity of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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    Figures & Tables(11)
    Point cloud data denoising BP neural network
    Evenly distributed simulated point cloud noise. (a) Simulated noise photons; (b) statistical histogram of noise photons
    Simulated point cloud signals with a Gaussian distribution. (a) Simulated signal photons; (b) statistical histogram of signal photons
    Distance-based point cloud data discrimination. (a) Signal photon; (b) noise photon
    Point cloud data discrimination based on point cloud density. (a) Signal photon; (b) noise photon
    Analysis of denoising results. (a) Simulated data (1 MHz/0.5); (b) signal extraction result (1 MHz/0.5); (c) simulated data (5 MHz/0.05); (d) signal extraction result (5 MHz/0.05)
    Denoising effect in a scene with high background noise. (a) Simulated noise photons; (b) simulated signal photons; (c) noise mixing with signal; (d) signal extraction result
    Denoising results of UAV-borne radar point cloud data. (a) 2D point cloud of the original data profile; (b) signal extraction result
    ICESat-2 surface data denoising results. (a) 2D point cloud of the original data profile; (b) signal extraction result
    • Table 1. Eigenvalue description

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      Table 1. Eigenvalue description

      FeatureDescription
      DBSCAN_circle_1Number of photon points in DBSCAN clustering radius RR =1 m)
      DBSCAN_circle_3Number of photon points in DBSCAN clustering radius RR =3 m)
      DBSCAN_circle_5Number of photon points in DBSCAN clustering radius RR =5 m)
      DBSCAN_circle_10Number of photon points in DBSCAN clustering radius RR =10 m)
      KNN_dist_10K of the photon point is the sum of the approaching distances (K =10)
      KNN_dist_20K of the photon point is the sum of the approaching distances (K =20)
      KNN_dist_50K of the photon point is the sum of the approaching distances (K =50)
      KNN_dist_100K of the photon point is the sum of the approaching distances (K =100)
    • Table 2. Comparison of algorithm accuracy in different scenarios

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      Table 2. Comparison of algorithm accuracy in different scenarios

      Noise rate /MHzpDBSCANKNNBP neural network
      RPFRPFRPF
      10.050.99580.74110.85080.99860.74110.85080.91400.91910.9166
      0.10.99690.87380.93271.00000.87380.93270.99010.96720.9329
      0.51.00000.96970.98471.00000.96970.98470.99940.99110.9952
      2.50.050.95170.67200.80080.99050.67200.80080.93750.81990.8747
      0.10.98550.83100.90720.99870.83100.90720.99330.91490.9525
      0.51.00000.96080.98001.00000.96080.98001.00000.97580.9877
      50.050.79050.40810.56940.94150.64760.78610.85510.62690.7235
      0.10.99430.77060.86810.99390.78740.86810.99860.73260.8452
      0.51.00000.94060.96951.00000.94060.96951.00000.95580.9773
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    Shiao Yu, Wei Kong, Rujia Ma, Genghua Huang. Photon-Counting Lidar Point Cloud Filtering Using a Backpropagation Neural Network[J]. Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, 2024, 61(24): 2415001

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    Paper Information

    Category: Machine Vision

    Received: Mar. 4, 2024

    Accepted: Apr. 25, 2024

    Published Online: Dec. 19, 2024

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    DOI:10.3788/LOP240793

    CSTR:32186.14.LOP240793

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