Plane segmentation from point clouds

Abstract

Recently, attempts have been made to automate data acquisition, which is also related to efforts to automate data processing. The paper deals with the automation of terrestrial laser scanning data processing. The approaches for point cloud segmentation are briefly described. An algorithm based on random sample consensus is proposed for automated plane identification and plane segmentation from point clouds. The proposed approach was tested by processing point clouds; the results of the testing are also described. Based on the proposed algorithm, a standalone application for automated plane segmentation from laser scanner data using Matlab® software was developed.