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ArticlePloS one2023

Airborne LiDAR point cloud classification using PointNet++ network with full neighborhood features.

Xingzhong Nong, Wenfeng Bai, Guanlan Liu

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Xingzhong NongGuangzhou Metro Design & Research Institute Co., Ltd., Guangdong, Guangzhou, China.ORCID 0000-0001-7759-3690
Wenfeng BaiGuangzhou Metro Design & Research Institute Co., Ltd., Guangdong, Guangzhou, China.ORCID 0000-0002-7364-9922
Guanlan LiuSchool of Geodesy and Geomatics, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China.

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Abstract

Compared with other point clouds, the airborne LiDAR point cloud has its own characteristics. The deep learning network PointNet++ ignores the inherent properties of airborne LiDAR point, and the classification precision is low. Therefore, we propose a framework based on the PointNet++ network. In this work, we proposed an interpolation method that uses adaptive elevation weight to make full use of the objects in the airborne LiDAR point, which exhibits discrepancies in elevation distributions. The class-balanced loss function is used for the uneven density distribution of point cloud data. Moreover, the relationship between a point and its neighbours is captured, densely connecting point pairs in multiscale regions and adding centroid features to learn contextual information. Experiments are conducted on the Vaihingen 3D semantic labelling benchmark dataset and GML(B) benchmark dataset. The experiments show that the proposed method, which has additional contextual information and makes full use of the airborne LiDAR point cloud properties to support classification, achieves high accuracy and can be widely used in airborne LiDAR point classification.

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