AN APPROACH to EXTRACT MOVING OBJECTS from MLS DATA USING A VOLUMETRIC BACKGROUND REPRESENTATION

J. Gehrung, M. Hebel, M. Arens, U. Stilla

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Abstract

Data recorded by mobile LiDAR systems (MLS) can be used for the generation and refinement of city models or for the automatic detection of long-term changes in the public road space. Since for this task only static structures are of interest, all mobile objects need to be removed. This work presents a straightforward but powerful approach to remove the subclass of moving objects. A probabilistic volumetric representation is utilized to separate MLS measurements recorded by a Velodyne HDL-64E into mobile objects and static background. The method was subjected to a quantitative and a qualitative examination using multiple datasets recorded by a mobile mapping platform. The results show that depending on the chosen octree resolution 87-95% of the measurements are labeled correctly.

Keywords

  • Background Subtraction
  • Change Detection
  • Detection and Tracking of Mobile Objects
  • Volumetric Representation

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