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Aerial LiDAR Data Augmentation for Direct Point-Cloud Visualisation.

ABSTRACT: Direct point-cloud visualisation is a common approach for visualising large datasets of aerial terrain LiDAR scans. However, because of the limitations of the acquisition technique, such visualisations often lack the desired visual appeal and quality, mostly because certain types of objects are incomplete or entirely missing (e.g., missing water surfaces, missing building walls and missing parts of the terrain). To improve the quality of direct LiDAR point-cloud rendering, we present a point-cloud processing pipeline that uses data fusion to augment the data with additional points on water surfaces, building walls and terrain through the use of vector maps of water surfaces and building outlines. In the last step of the pipeline, we also add colour information, and calculate point normals for illumination of individual points to make the final visualisation more visually appealing. We evaluate our approach on several parts of the Slovenian LiDAR dataset.

SUBMITTER: Bohak C

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7180474 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Aerial LiDAR Data Augmentation for Direct Point-Cloud Visualisation.

Bohak Ciril C Slemenik Matej M Kordež Jaka J Marolt Matija M

Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) 20200408 7

Direct point-cloud visualisation is a common approach for visualising large datasets of aerial terrain LiDAR scans. However, because of the limitations of the acquisition technique, such visualisations often lack the desired visual appeal and quality, mostly because certain types of objects are incomplete or entirely missing (e.g., missing water surfaces, missing building walls and missing parts of the terrain). To improve the quality of direct LiDAR point-cloud rendering, we present a point-clo ...[more]

PMID: 32276364

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