Morphological Operations to Extract Urban Curbs in 3D MLS Point Clouds

Automatic curb detection is an important issue in road maintenance, three-dimensional (3D) urban modeling, and autonomous navigation fields. This paper is focused on the segmentation of curbs and street boundaries using a 3D point cloud captured by a mobile laser scanner (MLS) system. Our method pro...

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Main Authors: Borja Rodríguez-Cuenca, Silverio García-Cortés, Celestino Ordóñez, María C. Alonso
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2016-06-01
Series:ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/5/6/93