The automatic classification of 3-D point clouds is publicly known as a challenging task in a complex road environment. Specifically, each point is automatically classified into a unique category label, and then, the labels are used as clues for semantic analysis and scene recognition. Instead of heuristically extracting handcrafted features in traditional methods to classify all points, we put forward an end-to-end octree-based fully convolutional network (FCN) to classify 3-D point clouds in an urban road environment. There are four contributions in this paper. The first is that the integration and comprehensive uses of OctNet and FCN greatly decrease the computing time and memory demands compared with a dense 3-D convolutional neural network (CNN). The second is that the octree-based network is strengthened by means of modifying the cross-entropy loss function to solve the problems of an unbalanced category distribution. The third is that an Inception-ResNet block is united with our network, which enables our 3-D CNN to effectively learn how to classify scenes containing objects at multiple scales and improve classification accuracy. The last is that an open source data set (HuangshiRoad data set) with ten different classes is introduced for 3-D point cloud classification. Three representative data sets [Semantic3D, WHU_MLS (blocks I and II), and HuangshiRoad] with different covered areas and numbers of points and classes are selected to evaluate our proposed method. The experimental results show that the overall classification accuracy is appreciable, with 89.4% for Semantic3D, 82.9% for WHU_MLS block I, 91.4% for WHU_MLS block II, and 94% for HuangshiRoad. Our deep learning approach can efficiently classify 3-D dense point clouds in an urban road environment measured by a mobile laser scanning (MLS) system or static LiDAR.

A Novel Octree-Based 3-D Fully Convolutional Neural Network for Point Cloud Classification in Road Environment

Classification of 3D point cloud in urban scenes has been widely applied in the fields of automatic driving, map updating, and change detection. To develop the accurate and effective method for the...

Segmentation-based classification for 3D point clouds in the road environment

This paper describes a new method of measuring the position of everyday objects and a robot on the floor using distance and reflectance acquired by laser range finder (LRF). The information obtained by this method is important for a service robot working in a human daily life environment. Our method uses only one LRF together with a mirror installed on the wall. Moreover, since the area of sensing is limited to a LRF scanning plane parallel to the floor and just a few centimeters above the floor, the scanning covers the whole room with minimal invasion of privacy of a resident, and occlusion problem is mitigated by using mirror. We use the reflection intensity and position information obtained from the target surface. Although it is not possible to identify all objects by additionally using reflection values, it would be easier to identify unknown objects if we can eliminate easily identifiable objects by reflectance. In addition, we propose a method for measuring the robot's pose using the tag which has the encoded reflection pattern optically identified by the LRF. Our experimental results validate the effectiveness of the proposed method.

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Floor Sensing System Using Laser Reflectivity for Localizing Everyday Objects and Robot

Mobile laser scanning has many advantages compared to traditional survey technology. These characteristics make it possible to rapidly acquire large-area high-precision 3D spatial data for reconstruction of 3D model. In this paper, we focus on the classification and recognition of mobile laser scanning data. We present a method based on object feature extraction. The main workflow of this method is made up by extraction of geometric feature from scanning data,foundation of objects feature knowledge database, extraction of main feature by PCA (Principal Component Analysis) to match geometric features,multi-level classification according to object’s principal feature at last. This method has been applied to data points obtained by mobile laser scanning system; the experiment results show that the proposed classification method is promising.

Kun Yu

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Classification Method for Object Feature Extraction Based on Laser Scanning Data