• Laser & Optoelectronics Progress
  • Vol. 59, Issue 22, 2228003 (2022)
Jianqi Miao, Hongtao Wang*, and Puguang Tian
Author Affiliations
  • School of Surveying and Land Information Engineering, Henan Polytechnic University, Jiaozuo 454000, Henan, China
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    DOI: 10.3788/LOP202259.2228003 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Jianqi Miao, Hongtao Wang, Puguang Tian. Airborne Light Detection and Ranging Point Cloud Classification via Graph Convolution and PointNet Integration[J]. Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, 2022, 59(22): 2228003 Copy Citation Text show less
    Flow chart of point cloud classification
    Fig. 1. Flow chart of point cloud classification
    Flowchart of local feature extraction. (a) Edge feature extraction; (b) depth feature extraction; (c) local feature extraction
    Fig. 2. Flowchart of local feature extraction. (a) Edge feature extraction; (b) depth feature extraction; (c) local feature extraction
    Training data and test data from Vaihingen dataset.(a) Training data; (b) test data
    Fig. 3. Training data and test data from Vaihingen dataset.(a) Training data; (b) test data
    Cassification results without graph convolution. (a) Classification results of different features; (b) right and wrong classification comparision
    Fig. 4. Cassification results without graph convolution. (a) Classification results of different features; (b) right and wrong classification comparision
    Cassification results with graph convolution. (a) Classification results of different features; (b) right and wrong classification comparision
    Fig. 5. Cassification results with graph convolution. (a) Classification results of different features; (b) right and wrong classification comparision
    MethodF1 scoreOA
    TreeLow_vegImp_surCarShrubRoof
    PointNet60.1475.1686.4249.1638.5178.774.38
    PointNet + EdgeConv64.4877.3488.2956.4238.9283.0977.04
    Table 1. Classification results of original PointNet and added graph models
    DataF1 scoreOA
    TreeLow_vegImp_surCarShrubRoof
    Original data64.4877.3488.2956.4238.9283.0977.04
    Fused data80.8878.2388.3167.4343.795.7683.96
    Table 2. Influence of shallow features on classification results
    MethodF1 scoreOA
    TreeLow_vegImp_surCarShrubRoof
    RF64.4877.3488.2956.4238.9283.0974.96
    PointNet60.1475.1686.4262.1438.9278.774.38
    Proposed method80.8878.2388.3167.4343.795.7683.96
    Table 3. Comparison results of different classification methods
    MethodF1 score
    TreeLow_vegImp_surCarShrubRoof
    Wang et al1779.575.985.95442.794.1
    UM77.97989.147.740.992
    NANJ1877.177.790.951.793.6
    Proposed method80.8878.2388.3167.4343.795.76
    Table 4. Comparison results of different classification methods
    Jianqi Miao, Hongtao Wang, Puguang Tian. Airborne Light Detection and Ranging Point Cloud Classification via Graph Convolution and PointNet Integration[J]. Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, 2022, 59(22): 2228003
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