Chinese Journal of Lasers, Volume. 49, Issue 9, 0910003(2022)

Fusion Method of LiDAR Point Cloud and Dense Matching Point Cloud

Li Yan, Dawei Ren, Hong Xie*, and Pengcheng Wei
Author Affiliations
  • School of Geodesy and Geomatics, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, Hubei, China
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    Flowchart of proposed method
    Illustration of point cloud segmentation based on graph-cuts model. (a) Aligned result of two heterologous point clouds; (b) segmentation results
    Illustrations of guided point cloud filtering with blended point clouds. (a)(b) Terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) point cloud used only; (c)(d) proposed method
    TLS point cloud and dense matching point cloud of a laboratory building. (a) TLS point cloud; (b) dense matching point cloud; (c) aligned result of two different point clouds; (d) point cloud of area A1; (e) point cloud of area A2;(f) point cloud of area C; (g) point cloud of area B1; (h) point cloud of area B2; (i) point cloud of area D
    Fusing results of two cross-source point clouds by using proposed method. (a) Dense matching point cloud processed by using proposed segmentation method; (b) dense matching point cloud segmented and smoothed by using proposed method; (c) segmented dense matching point cloud and TLS point cloud; (d) final dense matching point cloud and TLS point cloud processed by proposed method
    Comparison between facade LiDAR point cloud and dense matching point cloud of a laboratory building. (a) Aligned result of LiDAR point cloud and dense matching point cloud; (b) blended point clouds after segmentation; (c) comparison between original dense matching point cloud and smoothed point cloud based on progressive migration method; (d) comparison between original dense matching point cloud and smoothed point cloud based on proposed method; (e) smoothed dense matching point cloud based on progressive migration method; (f) smoothed dense matching point cloud based on proposed method; (g) blended point clouds with overlapped area; (h) comparison between original dense matching point cloud and smoothed point cloud based on progressive migration method; (i) comparison between original dense matching point cloud and smoothed point cloud based on proposed method; (j) comparison between two smoothed dense matching point clouds based on proposed method and progressive migration method
    • Table 1. Detailed description of three datasets

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      Table 1. Detailed description of three datasets

      DatasetTypes of point cloudQuantity of point cloud /106Quantity of TLS stationsQuantity of photosMethod of photo-graphingMethod of MVS reconstructionDistance between the points /m
      Laboratory buildingTLS35.4580.01
      Dense matching31.6478Aerial oblique photographySmart 3D0.017
      CourthouseTLS59.14190.006
      Dense matching27.051106Groud-viewCOLMAP0.013
      BarnTLS12.7490.004
      Dense matching5.42179Groud-viewCOLMAP0.02
    • Table 2. Parameters used in experiment

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      Table 2. Parameters used in experiment

      ParameterValue
      Point neighbourhood for normals and KNN graph10
      Blending distance control /m0.1
      Blending colour control6
      Blending smoothness2
      Point neighbourhood for guided point cloud filter50
      Filtering quality control0.1
      Radius parameter for filtering /m0.3
    • Table 3. Quantitative evaluation of smoothing effect of dense matching point cloud on TanksandTemples benchmark at evaluation threshold of 10 cm

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      Table 3. Quantitative evaluation of smoothing effect of dense matching point cloud on TanksandTemples benchmark at evaluation threshold of 10 cm

      MethodEvaluation for CourthouseEvaluation for Barn
      Accuracy /%Completeness /%Time /sAccuracy /%Completeness /%Time /s
      COLMAP67.4175.3745.9997.65
      Ours without guided filter65.7975.0141.2988.03
      Method in Ref.[6]67.5177.9617145.6789.5980
      Method in Ref.[17]70.1179.8281753.5490.96173
      Ours71.1780.2599253.6691.02195
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    Paper Information

    Received: Sep. 17, 2021

    Accepted: Oct. 25, 2021

    Published Online: Apr. 22, 2022

    The Author Email: Hong Xie (hxie@sgg.whu.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/CJL202249.0910003

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