Acta Geodaetica et Cartographica Sinica ›› 2024, Vol. 53 ›› Issue (8): 1624-1633.doi: 10.11947/j.AGCS.2024.20230198

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Integrated graph convolution and multi-scale features for the overhead catenary system point cloud semantic segmentation

Tao XU1(), Yuanwei YANG1(), Xianjun GAO1,2, Zhiwei WANG3, Yue PAN3, Shaohua LI1, Lei XU4, Yanjun WANG5,6, Bo LIU2, Jing YU7, Fengmin WU7, Haoyu SUN1   

  1. 1.School of Geosciences, Yangtze University, Wuhan 430100, China
    2.Key Laboratory of Mine Environmental Monitoring and Improving around Poyang Lake of Ministry of Natural Resources, East China University of Technology, Nanchang 330013, China
    3.Region Surveying and Mapping Geographic Information Center, Hohhot 010050, China
    4.China Railway Design Corporation, Tianjin 300308, China
    5.National-local Joint Engineering Laboratory of Geo-spatial Information Technology, Hunan University of Science and Technology, Xiangtan 411201, China
    6.Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Geo-Information Engineering in Surveying, and Remote Sensing, Hunan University of Science and Technology, Xiangtan 411201, China
    7.Chongqing Geomatics and Remote Sensing Center, Chongqing 401147, China
  • Received:2023-06-08 Published:2024-09-25
  • Contact: Yuanwei YANG E-mail:2021720578@yangtze.edu.cn;2021720578@yangtze.edu.cn;yyw_08@yangtzeu.edu.cn
  • About author:XU Tao (1998—), male, postgraduate, majors in the semantic segmentation of 3D point cloud data. E-mail: 2021720578@yangtze.edu.cn
  • Supported by:
    The Open Fund of National Engineering Laboratory for Digital Construction and Evaluation Technology of Urban Rail Transit(2023ZH01);Tianjin Science and Technology Plan Project(23YFYSHZ00190);The Natural Science Foundation of Chongqing Province(CSTB2022NSCQ-MSX1484);Open Fund of Key Laboratory of Mine Environmental Monitoring and Improving around Poyang Lake, Ministry of Natural Resources(MEMI-2021-2022-08);The Open Fund of Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Geo-Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Hunan University of Science and Technology(E22205);Hunan Provincial Natural Science Foundation Project Department Union Fund(2024JJ8327);Jiangxi Provincial Natural Science Foundation(20232ACB204032);Yangtze University College Student Innovation Project(Yz2023013)

Abstract:

Accurately segmenting the catenary is essential for extracting its components and detecting geometric parameters. In fact, the catenary scene is complex, with significant differences in size between internal components. There are many components with similar and connected semantic information, which makes it difficult for existing deep learning methods to accurately complete catenary point cloud semantic segmentation tasks. To address this issue, this paper proposes a neural network named GDM-Net that leverages graph convolution and multi-level features. GDM-Net includes a graph-based local feature extractor that enhances local feature extraction of the catenary point cloud, a double efficient channel attention module that considers the extraction of global and salient features of the catenary point cloud, and a refinement module of multi-scale feature fusion that improves segmentation accuracy by extracting and fusing multi-scale information of the catenary. The proposed network significantly improves the point cloud segmentation ability of catenary components, particularly at the intersection. Based on qualitative and quantitative analysis of the overhead catenary system dataset, the method is verified to achieve the highest accuracy among five other point cloud deep learning methods. The OA, mIoU, and F1 accuracy indices reach 96.73%, 91.06%, and 95.28%, respectively. Qualitative comparisons demonstrate that the proposed network effectively reduces the misclassification problem of component links and improves the integrity of catenary component segmentation.

Key words: LiDAR, overhead catenary system, graph convolution, attention mechanism, multi-scale feature fusion, point cloud semantic segmentation

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