Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, Volume. 62, Issue 14, 1428001(2025)

Roof Plane Segmentation from LiDAR Point Clouds Using Multi-Scale Voxels and Graph Cuts

Gang Li1, Liang Zhang2、*, Ke Liu3, Lu Gao3, and Shitao Xiang3
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  • 1State Key Laboratory of Geo-Information Engineering, Xi'an Research Institute of Surveying and Mapping, Xi'an 710054, Shaanxi , China
  • 2Faculty of Resources and Environmental Science, Hubei University, Wuhan 430062, Hubei , China
  • 3School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Wuhan Polytechnic University, Wuhan 430048, Hubei , China
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    Segmenting roof planes from airborne LiDAR point cloud data is essential for three-dimensional (3D) building reconstruction. However, the presence of discrete point clouds and complex roof structures present significant challenges to effective roof plane segmentation. To address this, a roof plane segmentation method that leverages multi-scale voxels and graph cuts is proposed. First, an octree voxelizes the original point cloud, generating multi-scale voxels based on geometric features to precisely characterize the data. Next, a bottom-up hierarchical clustering algorithm progressively merges these multi-scale voxels to obtain initial segmentation results. Finally, graph cuts refine the initial segmentation results and address boundary aliasing. The proposed method demonstrates superior performance, achieving roof plane segmentation accuracy of over 92.6% compared to four other methods. The proposed method accurately enables the generation of accurate roof planes for 3D building reconstruction.

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    Gang Li, Liang Zhang, Ke Liu, Lu Gao, Shitao Xiang. Roof Plane Segmentation from LiDAR Point Clouds Using Multi-Scale Voxels and Graph Cuts[J]. Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, 2025, 62(14): 1428001

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    Paper Information

    Category: Remote Sensing and Sensors

    Received: Dec. 19, 2024

    Accepted: Feb. 5, 2025

    Published Online: Jul. 16, 2025

    The Author Email: Liang Zhang (1471325210@qq.com)

    DOI:10.3788/LOP242451

    CSTR:32186.14.LOP242451

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