ENTITIES AND FEATURES FOR CLASSIFCATION OF AIRBORNE LASER SCANNING DATA IN URBAN AREA

We aim at efficiently classifying ALS data in urban areas by choosing an optimal combination of features and entities. Three kinds of entities are defined, namely, single points, planar segments and segments obtained by mean-shift segmentation. Various features are computed for these three entities....

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Main Authors: S. Xu, S. Oude Elberink, G. Vosselman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2012-07-01
Series:ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences
Online Access:http://www.isprs-ann-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/I-4/257/2012/isprsannals-I-4-257-2012.pdf
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description We aim at efficiently classifying ALS data in urban areas by choosing an optimal combination of features and entities. Three kinds of entities are defined, namely, single points, planar segments and segments obtained by mean-shift segmentation. Various features are computed for these three entities. All derived features are assigned to different steps of our method. Our method is composed of a sequence of rule based classifications. After a rule based classification for planar segments and a context rule based classification for walls and roof elements 85% of the data are well classified. Errors mainly appear in the area where rules are difficult to define, such as vegetation close to walls and above roofs. To eliminate these errors, we first group all the points in these areas into segments using mean shift, and then search for segments with potentially misclassified points using a distance ratio. These mean shift segments are then re-classified using another rule based classification. The overall quality of our classification method reaches to 98.1%.
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spelling doaj.art-d3feedd5dae74b46abacd9fe5efe96522022-12-22T03:33:22ZengCopernicus PublicationsISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences2194-90422194-90502012-07-01I-425726210.5194/isprsannals-I-4-257-2012ENTITIES AND FEATURES FOR CLASSIFCATION OF AIRBORNE LASER SCANNING DATA IN URBAN AREAS. Xu0S. Oude Elberink1G. Vosselman2Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, University of Twente, NetherlandsFaculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, University of Twente, NetherlandsFaculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, University of Twente, NetherlandsWe aim at efficiently classifying ALS data in urban areas by choosing an optimal combination of features and entities. Three kinds of entities are defined, namely, single points, planar segments and segments obtained by mean-shift segmentation. Various features are computed for these three entities. All derived features are assigned to different steps of our method. Our method is composed of a sequence of rule based classifications. After a rule based classification for planar segments and a context rule based classification for walls and roof elements 85% of the data are well classified. Errors mainly appear in the area where rules are difficult to define, such as vegetation close to walls and above roofs. To eliminate these errors, we first group all the points in these areas into segments using mean shift, and then search for segments with potentially misclassified points using a distance ratio. These mean shift segments are then re-classified using another rule based classification. The overall quality of our classification method reaches to 98.1%.http://www.isprs-ann-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/I-4/257/2012/isprsannals-I-4-257-2012.pdf
spellingShingle S. Xu
S. Oude Elberink
G. Vosselman
ENTITIES AND FEATURES FOR CLASSIFCATION OF AIRBORNE LASER SCANNING DATA IN URBAN AREA
ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences
title ENTITIES AND FEATURES FOR CLASSIFCATION OF AIRBORNE LASER SCANNING DATA IN URBAN AREA
title_full ENTITIES AND FEATURES FOR CLASSIFCATION OF AIRBORNE LASER SCANNING DATA IN URBAN AREA
title_fullStr ENTITIES AND FEATURES FOR CLASSIFCATION OF AIRBORNE LASER SCANNING DATA IN URBAN AREA
title_full_unstemmed ENTITIES AND FEATURES FOR CLASSIFCATION OF AIRBORNE LASER SCANNING DATA IN URBAN AREA
title_short ENTITIES AND FEATURES FOR CLASSIFCATION OF AIRBORNE LASER SCANNING DATA IN URBAN AREA
title_sort entities and features for classifcation of airborne laser scanning data in urban area
url http://www.isprs-ann-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/I-4/257/2012/isprsannals-I-4-257-2012.pdf
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