THREE-DIMENSIONAL DEEP LEARNING FOR LEAF-WOOD SEGMENTATION OF TROPICAL TREE POINT CLOUDS

Autor: W. A. J. Van den Broeck, L. Terryn, W. Cherlet, Z. T. Cooper, K. Calders
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, Vol XLVIII-1-W2-2023, Pp 765-770 (2023)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1682-1750
2194-9034
DOI: 10.5194/isprs-archives-XLVIII-1-W2-2023-765-2023
Popis: Terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) has emerged as a valuable technology for forest monitoring, providing detailed 3D measurements of vegetation structure. However, the semantic understanding of tropical tree point clouds, particularly the separation of woody and non-woody components, remains a challenge. Therefore, this paper addresses the gaps in both (1) data availability and (2) knowledge regarding the potential of 3D deep learning algorithms for leaf-wood segmentation of tropical tree point clouds. First, we contribute a new dataset consisting of 148 tropical tree point clouds with manual leaf-wood annotations. Second, we present initial results using the RandLA-Net 3D deep learning architecture to establish a benchmark on our dataset, achieving a mean intersection over union (mIoU) of 86.8% and overall accuracy of 94.8%. Visual inspection of predictions reveals areas of confusion and indicates applicability across different forest types. Our study demonstrates the potential of 3D deep learning for leaf-wood segmentation in tropical tree point clouds and highlights avenues for future research, including exploring different architectures and investigating the influence of prediction errors on volumetric tree reconstruction.
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