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S&M2264 Research Paper of Special Issue https://doi.org/10.18494/SAM.2020.2808 Published: July 20, 2020 Point Cloud Registration Using Intensity Features [PDF] Chien-Chou Lin, Wei-Lung Mao, and Ting-Lun Hu (Received October 16, 2019; Accepted April 17, 2020) Keywords: point cloud, LiDAR, 3D registration, iterative closest point (ICP), intensity feature, extension of vertical field of view
In this paper, a registration method for extending point clouds is proposed. The proposed method merges several point clouds to increase the vertical field of view (FOV). However, the most popular alignment algorithm, iterative closest point (ICP), fails to extend point clouds that are captured with varying heights when most points are similar. The main issue is the tyranny of the majority, in which ground points and wall points dominate the registration result of ICP. Instead of using all points of point clouds, the proposed method only uses the intensity features to find the transformation matrix between two point clouds and then transforms the target point cloud to the coordinate system of the source point cloud. Upon merging the two point clouds, the vertical FOV can be extended. In a simulation, the proposed algorithm scans the source and the target with fixed position and varying height using a light detection and ranging (LiDAR) (Velodyne VLP-16 mounted on a tripod). The simulation result shows that the average error of alignment of the proposed system is less than 16 cm in a 6 × 6 m2 meeting room, and the average error of alignment of the proposed system using a premeasured height for compensation is less than 12 cm.
Corresponding author: Chien-Chou Lin, Wei-Lung MaoThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Cite this article Chien-Chou Lin, Wei-Lung Mao, and Ting-Lun Hu, Point Cloud Registration Using Intensity Features, Sens. Mater., Vol. 32, No. 7, 2020, p. 2355-2364. |