Acta Geodaetica et Cartographica Sinica ›› 2017, Vol. 46 ›› Issue (10): 1460-1469.doi: 10.11947/j.AGCS.2017.20170345

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Advances and Prospects of Information Extraction from Point Clouds

ZHANG Jixian1, LIN Xiangguo2, LIANG Xinlian3   

  1. 1. National Quality Inspection and Testing Center for Surveying and Mapping Products, Beijing 100830, China;
    2. Chinese Academy of Surveying and Mapping, Beijing 100830, China;
    3. Finnish Geospatial Research Institute, Kirkkonummi 02431, Finland
  • Received:2017-06-22 Revised:2017-09-07 Online:2017-10-20 Published:2017-10-26
  • Supported by:
    The National Natural Science Foundations of China (Nos. 41671440;41371405);The Foundation for Remote Sensing Young Talents by the National Remote Sensing Center of China

Abstract: Point cloud is one type of the widely used data sources in many communities such as photogrammetry, remote sensing, and computer vision etc. Moreover, information extraction is a necessary step in the process of point cloud processing, analysis and applications. As result, the scholars have proposed a great number of methods for point cloud information extraction. According to the three view points of primitive types, extracted features, and methods for feature selection and classification, this review paper summarizes the research status of point cloud information extraction. This paper also point out five main problems and six main trends in point cloud information extraction, especially introduces a new paradigm:fusion of multiple primitives for point cloud information extraction.

Key words: LiDAR point cloud, photogrammetric point cloud, filtering, classification, fusion of multiple primitives, information extraction

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