RayCloudTools: A Concise Interface for Analysis and Manipulation of Ray Clouds
| Autor: | Kazys Stepanas, Thomas Lowe |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
| Předmět: |
0209 industrial biotechnology
General Computer Science Interface (Java) Computer science Point cloud Cloud computing 02 engineering and technology Set (abstract data type) 020901 industrial engineering & automation Computer graphics (images) 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering General Materials Science lidar ComputingMethodologies_COMPUTERGRAPHICS decimation business.industry Cloud processing General Engineering Usability alignment Ellipsoid TK1-9971 Lidar 3D mapping Ray cloud 020201 artificial intelligence & image processing Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering business point cloud |
| Zdroj: | IEEE Access, Vol 9, Pp 79712-79724 (2021) |
| ISSN: | 2169-3536 |
| Popis: | We describe a new toolset for the manipulation and analysis of ray clouds (3D maps defined by a set of rays from a moving lidar to the scanned surfaces). Unlike point clouds, ray clouds contain information on free-space (air) as well as surface geometry. This allows the toolset to perform volumetric functions and analysis that cannot be done on point clouds alone. The presented toolset consists of seventeen command-line functions, with a C++ library available for those who require more control or tight integration. Our aim is that RayCloudTools is as useful and simple as possible, and we use this paper to demonstrate its utility, and to assess its ease of use, with comparison to established cloud processing libraries. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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