Research on Identification of Road Features from Point Cloud Data Using Deep Learning

Abstract

Laser measurement technology has progressed significantly in recent years, and diverse methods have been developed to measure three-dimensional (3D) objects within environmental spaces in the form of point cloud data. Although such point cloud data are expected to be used in a variety of applications, such data do not possess information on the specific features represented by the points, making it necessary to manually select the target features. Therefore, the identification of road features is essential for the efficient management of point cloud data. As a technology for identifying features from the point cloud data of road spaces, in this research, we propose a method for automatically dividing point cloud data into units of features and identifying features from projected images with added depth information. We experimentally verified that the proposed method accurately identifies and extracts such features.