To meet the urgent demands in a wide range of geospatial applications, such as road management, intelligent transportation systems, road safety evaluation, and traffic accident analysis, automatic and accurate extraction of 3D roads and associated geometric parameters from point clouds is receiving wide attention. In this paper, we propose an accurate 3D road boundary extraction and vectorization method to bridge the gap from unstructured mobile laser scanning (MLS) point clouds to the vector-based representation of road boundary. Firstly, we propose a supervoxel generation method to extract candidate curbs with fine border preservation and high computation efficiencies. Then the candidate curb supervoxels are recognized and clustered to produce continuous road boundary segments with a contracted distance clustering strategy. Finally, the vectorized road boundary is represented by fitting, tracking, and completion from the extracted road boundary segments, resulting in road geometric parameters including boundary location, road widths, turning radius, and slopes. The performance of the proposed method was evaluated on two large-scale datasets collected in urban and industrial areas. Comprehensive experiments reveal that the proposed method is robust to various road shapes and point densities, in terms of precision of 95.0% and recall of 91.0%, respectively.


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    Title :

    Automated 3D Road Boundary Extraction and Vectorization Using MLS Point Clouds


    Contributors:
    Mi, Xiaoxin (author) / Yang, Bisheng (author) / Dong, Zhen (author) / Chen, Chi (author) / Gu, Jianxiang (author)


    Publication date :

    2022-06-01


    Size :

    6763023 byte




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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