An Accurate and Efficient Supervoxel Re-Segmentation Approach for Large-Scale Point Clouds Using Plane Constraints

Abstract

The accurate and efficient segmentation of large-scale urban point clouds is crucial for many higher-level tasks, such as boundary line extraction, point cloud registration, and deformation measurement. In this paper, we propose a novel supervoxel segmentation approach to address the problem of under-segmentation in local regions of point clouds at various resolutions. Our approach introduces distance constraints from boundary points to supervoxel planes in the merging stage to enhance boundary segmentation accuracy between non-coplanar supervoxels. Additionally, supervoxels with roughness above a threshold are re-segmented using random sample consensus (RANSAC) to address multi-planar coupling within local areas of the point clouds. We tested the proposed method on two publicly available large-scale point cloud datasets. The results show that the new method outperforms two classical methods in terms of boundary recall, under-segmentation error, and average entropy in urban scenes.