Classification of LiDAR Point Cloud based on Multiscale Features and PointNet

Abstract

Aiming at classifying the feature of LiDAR point cloud data in complex scenario, this paper proposed a deep neural network model based on multi-scale features and PointNet. The method improves the local feature of PointNet and realize automatic classification of LiDAR point cloud under the complex scene. Firstly, this paper adds multi-scale network on the basis of PointNet network to extract the local features of points. And then these local features of different scales are composed into a multi-dimensional feature through the fully connected layer, and combined with the global features extracted by PointNet, the scores of each point class are returned to complete the point cloud classification. The deep neural network model proposed in this paper is verified using the Semantic3D dataset and the Vaihingen dataset provided by ISPRS. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm achieves higher classification accuracy compared with other neural networks used for point cloud classification.