• Opto-Electronic Engineering
  • Vol. 45, Issue 12, 180266 (2018)
Zhao Kai1, Xu Youchun2, and Wang Rendong1
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    DOI: 10.12086/oee.2018.180266 Cite this Article
    Zhao Kai, Xu Youchun, Wang Rendong. A preprocessing method of 3D point clouds registration in urban environments[J]. Opto-Electronic Engineering, 2018, 45(12): 180266 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    Aiming at the problem that 3D LiDAR point cloud has high data density, outlier noise, and scattered distribution in urban environment, which is not conducive to the matching between point clouds in the later stage, a pre-processing method for large-scale LiDAR point cloud frame matching in urban environments is proposed. First, the point cloud data is transformed into a Mean Elevation Map, and the ground point segmentation processing is performed on the point cloud using the height gradient between the grids; then, the DBSCAN clustering algorithm is improved by the three-dimensional voxel grid division method, and the improved VG-DBSCAN is used to cluster point clouds and separate the target point cloud from the outliers after clustering, thereby, which eliminates outlier noises in the point cloud. Finally, the Voxel Grid filter is used to down sample the point cloud. The experimental results show that the proposed method can perform real-time preprocessing on point cloud data, and the average time is 132.1 ms. After pre-processing, the accuracy of point cloud frame matching is increased by 2 times, and the average time consumption is only 1/6 before pre-processing.
    Zhao Kai, Xu Youchun, Wang Rendong. A preprocessing method of 3D point clouds registration in urban environments[J]. Opto-Electronic Engineering, 2018, 45(12): 180266
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