DIAGNOSTIC-ROBUST STATISTICAL ANALYSIS FOR LOCAL SURFACE FITTING IN 3D POINT CLOUD DATA

This paper investigates the problem of local surface reconstruction and best fitting for planar surfaces from unorganized 3D point cloud data. Least Squares (LS), its equivalent Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and RANSAC are the three most popular techniques for fitting planar surfaces to 3D da...

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Main Authors: A. Nurunnabi, D. Belton, G. West
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2012-07-01
Series:ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences
Online Access:https://www.isprs-ann-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/I-3/269/2012/isprsannals-I-3-269-2012.pdf
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description This paper investigates the problem of local surface reconstruction and best fitting for planar surfaces from unorganized 3D point cloud data. Least Squares (LS), its equivalent Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and RANSAC are the three most popular techniques for fitting planar surfaces to 3D data. LS and PCA are sensitive to outliers and do not give reliable and robust parameter estimation. The RANSAC algorithm is robust but it is not completely free from the effect of outliers and is slow for large datasets. In this paper, we propose a diagnostic-robust statistical algorithm that uses both diagnostics and robust approaches in combination for fitting planar surfaces in the presence of outliers. Recently introduced high breakdown and fast Minimum Covariance Determinant (MCD) based location and scatter estimates are used for robust distance to identify outliers and a MCD based robust PCA approach is used as an outlier resistant technique for plane fitting. The benefits of the new diagnostic-robust algorithm are demonstrated with artificial and real laser scanning point cloud datasets. Results show that the proposed method is significantly better and more efficient than the other three methods for planar surface fitting. This method also has great potential for robust local normal estimation and for other surface shape fitting applications.
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spelling doaj.art-b49df11bdf914fe0aac3ea4a853cf72c2022-12-21T18:44:56ZengCopernicus PublicationsISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences2194-90422194-90502012-07-01I-326927410.5194/isprsannals-I-3-269-2012DIAGNOSTIC-ROBUST STATISTICAL ANALYSIS FOR LOCAL SURFACE FITTING IN 3D POINT CLOUD DATAA. Nurunnabi0D. Belton1G. West2Department of Spatial Sciences, Curtin University, Western Australia, AustraliaCooperative Research Centre for Spatial InformationCooperative Research Centre for Spatial InformationThis paper investigates the problem of local surface reconstruction and best fitting for planar surfaces from unorganized 3D point cloud data. Least Squares (LS), its equivalent Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and RANSAC are the three most popular techniques for fitting planar surfaces to 3D data. LS and PCA are sensitive to outliers and do not give reliable and robust parameter estimation. The RANSAC algorithm is robust but it is not completely free from the effect of outliers and is slow for large datasets. In this paper, we propose a diagnostic-robust statistical algorithm that uses both diagnostics and robust approaches in combination for fitting planar surfaces in the presence of outliers. Recently introduced high breakdown and fast Minimum Covariance Determinant (MCD) based location and scatter estimates are used for robust distance to identify outliers and a MCD based robust PCA approach is used as an outlier resistant technique for plane fitting. The benefits of the new diagnostic-robust algorithm are demonstrated with artificial and real laser scanning point cloud datasets. Results show that the proposed method is significantly better and more efficient than the other three methods for planar surface fitting. This method also has great potential for robust local normal estimation and for other surface shape fitting applications.https://www.isprs-ann-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/I-3/269/2012/isprsannals-I-3-269-2012.pdf
spellingShingle A. Nurunnabi
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G. West
DIAGNOSTIC-ROBUST STATISTICAL ANALYSIS FOR LOCAL SURFACE FITTING IN 3D POINT CLOUD DATA
ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences
title DIAGNOSTIC-ROBUST STATISTICAL ANALYSIS FOR LOCAL SURFACE FITTING IN 3D POINT CLOUD DATA
title_full DIAGNOSTIC-ROBUST STATISTICAL ANALYSIS FOR LOCAL SURFACE FITTING IN 3D POINT CLOUD DATA
title_fullStr DIAGNOSTIC-ROBUST STATISTICAL ANALYSIS FOR LOCAL SURFACE FITTING IN 3D POINT CLOUD DATA
title_full_unstemmed DIAGNOSTIC-ROBUST STATISTICAL ANALYSIS FOR LOCAL SURFACE FITTING IN 3D POINT CLOUD DATA
title_short DIAGNOSTIC-ROBUST STATISTICAL ANALYSIS FOR LOCAL SURFACE FITTING IN 3D POINT CLOUD DATA
title_sort diagnostic robust statistical analysis for local surface fitting in 3d point cloud data
url https://www.isprs-ann-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/I-3/269/2012/isprsannals-I-3-269-2012.pdf
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