Automated Detection of Three-Dimensional Cars in Mobile Laser Scanning Point Clouds Using DBM-Hough-Forests

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 54, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 4130-4142

  Yu, Yongtao ^a,b   Li, Jonathan ^a,c   Guan, Haiyan ^d   Wang, Cheng ^a  

^a XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HUAIYIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^d NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Car detection; deep learning; Hough forest; mobile laser scanning (MLS); point cloud; visibility estimation

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; FORESTRY; LASER APPLICATIONS; SURFACE ANALYSIS; VISIBILITY;

CAR DETECTION; DEEP LEARNING; HOUGH FORESTS; LASER SCANNING; POINT CLOUD; VISIBILITY ESTIMATION;

ALGORITHMS;

ALGORITHM; AUTOMATION; AUTOMOBILE; AZIMUTH; DATA ACQUISITION; DETECTION METHOD; LASER METHOD; LEARNING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCANNER; VISIBILITY;

EID: 84976338968     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2016.2537830     Document Type: Article

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