IQPC 2015 TRACK: TREE SEPARATION AND CLASSIFICATION IN MOBILE MAPPING LIDAR DATA

• Main Authors: B. Gorte, S. Oude Elberink, B. Sirmacek, J. Wang
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2015-08-01
• Series: The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences
• Online Access: http://www.int-arch-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/XL-3-W3/607/2015/isprsarchives-XL-3-W3-607-2015.pdf

The European FP7 project IQmulus yearly organizes several processing contests, where submissions are requested for novel algorithms for point cloud and other <i>big</i> geodata processing. This paper describes the set-up and execution of a contest having the purpose to evaluate state-of-the-art algorithms for Mobile Mapping System point clouds, in order to detect and identify (individual) trees. By the nature of MMS these are trees in the vicinity of the road network (rather than in forests). Therefore, part of the challenge is distinguishing between trees and other objects, such as buildings, street furniture, cars etc. Three submitted segmentation and classification algorithms are thus evaluated.