Hyperspectral lidar point cloud segmentation based on geometric and spectral information

作者：Biwu Chen, Shuo Shi, Jia Yue Sun, Wei Gong, Jian Yang, Lin Du, Kuanghui Guo, Binhui Wang, Bowen Chen · 发表于：Optics Express · 年份：2019 · DOI：10.1364/oe.27.024043 · 被引用次数：52 · 研究领域：Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications、Remote Sensing in Agriculture、3D Surveying and Cultural Heritage

Light detection and ranging (lidar) can record a 3D environment as point clouds, which are unstructured and difficult to process efficiently. Point cloud segmentation is an effective technology to solve this problem and plays a significant role in various applications, such as forestry management and 3D building reconstruction. The spectral information from images could improve the segmentation result, but suffers from the varying illumination conditions and the registration problem. New hyperspectral lidar sensor systems can solve these problems, with the capacity to obtain spectral and geometric information simultaneously. The former segmentation on hyperspectral lidar were mainly based on spectral information. The geometric segmentation method widely used by single wavelength lidar was not employed for hyperspectral lidar yet. This study aims to fill this gap by proposing a hyperspectral lidar segmentation method with three stages. First, Connected-Component Labeling (CCL) using the geometric information is employed for base segmentation. Second, the output components of the first stage are split by the spectral difference using Density-Based Spatial Clustering of Applications with Noise (DBSCAN). Third, the components of the second stage are merged based on the spectral similarity using Spectral Angle Match (SAM). Two indoor experimental scenes were setup for validation. We compared the performance of our mothed with that of the 3D and intensity feature based method. The ...