Automatic object segmentation from large scale 3D urban point clouds through manifold embedded mode seeking

  • Authors:
  • Zhiding Yu;Chunjing Xu;Jianzhuang Liu;Oscar C. Au;Xiaoou Tang

  • Affiliations:
  • The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, Hong Kong;Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, China;Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, China;The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, Hong Kong;The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong

  • Venue:
  • MM '11 Proceedings of the 19th ACM international conference on Multimedia
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

This paper presents a system that can automatically segment objects in large scale 3D point clouds obtained from urban ranging images. The system consists of three steps: The first one involves a ground detection process that can detect relatively complex terrain and separate it from other objects. The second step superpixelizes the remaining objects to speed up the segmentation process. In the final step, a manifold embedded mode seeking method is adopted to segment the point clouds. Even though the segmentation of urban objects is a challenging problem in terms of accuracy and problem scale, our system can efficiently generate very good segmentation results. The proposed manifold learning effectively improves the segmentation performance due to the fact that continuous artificial objects often have manifold-like structures.