Lidar waveform modeling using a marked point process

  • Authors:
  • Clément Mallet;Florent Lafarge;Frédéric Bretar;Uwe Soergel;Christian Heipke

  • Affiliations:
  • Laboratoire MATIS, Institut Géographique National, Saint-Mandé, France;IMAGINE, Université Paris Est, Marne-la-Vallée, France;Laboratoire MATIS, Institut Géographique National, Saint-Mandé, France;IPI, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Hannover, Germany;IPI, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Hannover, Germany

  • Venue:
  • ICIP'09 Proceedings of the 16th IEEE international conference on Image processing
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Lidar waveforms are 1D signal consisting of a train of echoes where each of them correspond to a scattering target of the Earth surface. Modeling these echoes with the appropriate parametric function is necessary to retrieve physical information about these objects and characterize their properties. This paper presents a marked point process based model to reconstruct a lidar signal in terms of a set of parametric functions. The model takes into account both a data term which measures the coherence between the models and the waveforms, and a regularizing term which introduces physical knowledge on the reconstructed signal. We search for the best configuration of functions by performing a Reversible Jump Markov Chain Monte Carlo sampler coupled with a simulated annealing. Results are finally presented on different kinds of signals in urban areas.