1 - A Marked Point Process for Modeling Lidar Waveforms.
C. Mallet and F. Lafarge and M. Roux and U. Soergel and F. Bretar and C. Heipke. IEEE Trans. Image Processing, 19(12): pages 3204-3221, December 2010.
Keywords : Clustering algorithms, Image color analysis, Image edge detection, Image segmentation, Monte Carlo Sampling, Object-based stochastic model.
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{Mallet, C. and Lafarge, F. and Roux, M. and Soergel, U. and Bretar, F. and Heipke, C.}, |
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{A Marked Point Process for Modeling Lidar Waveforms}, |
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{2010}, |
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{IEEE Trans. Image Processing}, |
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{http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TIP.2010.2052825}, |
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{Clustering algorithms, Image color analysis, Image edge detection, Image segmentation, Monte Carlo Sampling, Object-based stochastic model} |
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Abstract :
Lidar waveforms are 1D signals representing a train of echoes caused by reflections at different targets. Modeling these echoes with the appropriate parametric function is useful to retrieve information about the physical characteristics of the targets. This paper presents a new probabilistic model based on a marked point process which reconstructs the echoes from recorded discrete waveforms as a sequence of parametric curves. Such an approach allows to fit each mode of a waveform with the most suitable function and to deal with both, symmetric and asymmetric, echoes. The model takes into account a data term, which measures the coherence between the models and the waveforms, and a regularization term, which introduces prior knowledge on the reconstructed signal. The exploration of the associated configuration space is performed by a Reversible Jump Markov Chain Monte Carlo sampler coupled with simulated annealing. Experiments with different kinds of lidar signals, especially from urban scenes, show the high potential of the proposed approach. To further demonstrate the advantages of the suggested method, actual laser scans are classified and the results are reported. |
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