Reconstruction and analysis of 3d scenes (Springer International Publishing AG)

This§unique work presents a detailed review of the processing and analysis of 3D§point clouds. A fully automated framework is introduced, incorporating each aspect of a typical end-to-end§processing workflow, from raw 3D point cloud data to semantic objects in the§scene. For each of these components, the book describes the theoretical§background, and compares the performance of the proposed approaches to that of current state-of-the-art techniques. Topics and features: reviews techniques for the acquisition of 3D§point cloud data and for point quality assessment; explains the fundamental§concepts for extracting features from 2D imagery and 3D point cloud data; proposes§an original approach to keypoint-based point cloud registration; discusses the§enrichment of 3D point clouds aby additional information acquired with a thermal§camera, and describes a new method for thermal 3D mapping; presents a novel§framework for 3D scene analysis.