Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, Volume. 61, Issue 18, 1815005(2024)

Airborne Laser Point-Cloud Filtering in Complex Mountainous Terrain Utilizing Deep Global Information Fusion

Jierui Cui1,3, Yunwei Pu1,2、*, Yan Xia3, and Yichen Liu3
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  • 1Faculty of Land and Resources Engineering, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650093, Yunnan, China
  • 2Computing Center, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650500, Yunnan, China
  • 3Yunnan Water Conservancy and Hydropower Survey and Design Institute, Kunming 650021, Yunnan, China
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    LiDAR exhibits high non-ground point ratios and uneven density distributions when obtaining point-cloud data in areas with steep terrains and dense vegetation coverage. Classical filtering algorithms cannot readily obtain accurate point-cloud filtering results. In point-cloud filtering using deep learning, issues such as insufficient information utilization and inadequate feature extraction persist. Therefore, this study proposes a point-cloud filtering network that integrates multidimensional features and global contextual information (MGINet). It establishes a framework for multidimensional feature extraction and global information fusion to enhance the accuracy of point-cloud filtering in complex mountainous regions. MGINet begins by designing a local cross-feature fusion module, which combines normal vectors with spatial geometric structures to extract high-dimensional diverse features, thereby preserving the local spatial structure features of the point cloud. Subsequently, a global-context aggregation module is introduced to capture global contextual information, thus enhancing the generality of the features through cross-coding. Finally, experimental testing on both public and actual datasets from complex mountainous areas shows that MGINet outperforms classical algorithms in terms of point-cloud filtering accuracy.

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    Jierui Cui, Yunwei Pu, Yan Xia, Yichen Liu. Airborne Laser Point-Cloud Filtering in Complex Mountainous Terrain Utilizing Deep Global Information Fusion[J]. Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, 2024, 61(18): 1815005

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    Paper Information

    Category: Machine Vision

    Received: Feb. 5, 2024

    Accepted: Mar. 7, 2024

    Published Online: Sep. 14, 2024

    The Author Email: Yunwei Pu (puyunwei@126.com)

    DOI:10.3788/LOP240669

    CSTR:32186.14.LOP240669

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