The primary emphasis of this thesis concerns the extraction and representation of intrinsic properties of three-dimensional (3D) unorganized point clouds. The points establishing a point cloud as it mainly emerges from LiDaR (Light Detection and Ranging) scan devices or by reconstruction from two-dimensional (2D) image series represent discrete samples of real world objects. Depending on the ty...

Edge extraction has attracted a lot of attention in computer vision. The accuracy of extracting edges in point clouds can be a significant asset for a variety of engineering scenarios. To address these issues, we propose a segmentation-based multi-scale edge extraction technique. In this approach, different regions of a point cloud are segmented by a global analysis according to the geodesic di...

In this paper, a new approach for automated extraction of building boundary from high resolution imagery is proposed. The proposed approach uses both geometric and spectral properties of a building to detect and locate buildings accurately. It consists of automatic generation of high quality point cloud from the imagery, building detection from point cloud, classification of building roof and g...

in the last two decade the use of aerial laser scanner (als) or lidar (light detection and ranging) sensor in geomatics engineering and surveying application has augmented significantly . the main reason of the mentioned phenomenon is the reliability and accuracy of the data obtained by lidar sensors. the output of lidar is unclassified 3d point cloud. classification of the lidar point clouds i...

In this work, we developed a simple and selective method for separation and spectrophotometric determination of trace amounts of cetylpyridinium chloride (CPC) in pharmaceutical products using cloud point extraction (CPE) technique. The method is based on cloud point extraction of the CPC in alkali conditions using of nonionic surfactant Triton X-114. Under optimal conditions, the calibration g...

3D models obtained with advanced survey techniques such as close-range photogrammetry and laser scanner are nowadays particularly appreciated in Cultural Heritage and Archaeology fields. In order to produce high quality models representing archaeological evidences and anthropological artifacts, the appearance of the model (i.e. color) beyond the geometric accuracy, is not a negligible aspect. T...

3D map building is a complex robotics task which needs mathematical robust models. From a 3D point cloud, we can use the normal vectors to these points to do feature extraction. In this paper, we propose to extract geometric primitives (e.g. planes) from the cloud. We will present a robust method for normal estimation.

In this article cloud-point extraction (CPE) was used with chelating agent to extract uranium from aqueous solutions. The methodology used is based on the formation of metal complexes soluble in a micellar phase of surfactant. The metal ions complexes are then extracted into the surfactant-rich phase at a temperature above the cloud-point temperature. The effect of type of surfactants and ligan...

By fusing with other sensory data, especially high resolution imagery, Lidar can be good source of information for DEM extraction and feature extraction. Nowadays airborne Lidar system vendors such as Leica and Toposys and others are providing systems (Leica ALS50II, ALS60, Toposys FALCON II) with integrated camera capturing 3D point cloud and high resolution images simultaneously. The full pot...