A local tangent plane distance-based approach to 3D point cloud segmentation via clustering

Abstract

This paper proposes an effective measure for the planar segmentation problem based on the clustering method. It uses the distance from a point to the local plane as a metric to characterize the relationship between data. As a result, the data points of the coplanar have a high similarity to distinguish each plane. A dissimilarity matrix of the input point cloud can be evaluated, and multidimensional scaling analysis is performed to reconstruct the correlation information between data points in the 3D Euclidean space. The obtained reconstructed point cloud shows the separation between different planes. An adaptive DBSCAN clustering method based on density stratification is developed to perform cluster segmentation on the reconstructed point cloud. Experimental results show that the proposed method can effectively solve the over-segmentation problem, and at the same time provide high segmentation accuracy.