Acta Geodaetica et Cartographica Sinica ›› 2019, Vol. 48 ›› Issue (12): 1575-1585.doi: 10.11947/j.AGCS.2019.20190465

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Progress and perspective of point cloud intelligence

YANG Bisheng1,2, DONG Zhen1,2   

  1. 1. State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China;
    2. Engineering Research Center for Spatio-temporal Data Smart Acquisition and Application, Ministry of Education of China, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China
  • Received:2019-11-07 Revised:2019-11-19 Published:2019-12-24
  • Supported by:
    The National Natural Science Foundation of China for Distinguished Young Scholars (No. 41725005);The Key Project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 41531177);The Yangtze River Scholar Distinguished Professor Program

Abstract: With the rapid development of the reality capture, such as laser scanning and oblique photogrammetry, point cloud has become the third important data source following vector maps and imagery, and also plays an increasingly important role in scientific research and engineering in the fields of earth science, spatial cognition, and smart city, and so on. However, how to acquire valid and accurate three-dimensional geospatial information from point clouds has become the scientific frontier and the urgent demand in the field of surveying and mapping as well as the geoscience applications. To address the challenges mentioned above, point cloud intelligence came into being. This paper summarizes the state-of-the art of point cloud intelligence in acquisition equipment, the intelligent processing, scientific research and the major engineering applications, focusing on its three important areas:the theoretical methods, the key techniques of intelligent processing and the major engineering applications. Finally, the promising development tendency of the point cloud intelligence is summarized.

Key words: point cloud big data, point cloud intelligence, semantic labeling, structured modelling, deep learning, ubiquitous point cloud

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