FEATURE-BASED QUALITY EVALUATION OF 3D POINT CLOUDS – STUDY OF THE PERFORMANCE OF 3D REGISTRATION ALGORITHMS

Abstract. The production of realistic 3D map databases is continuously growing. We studied an approach of 3D mapping database producing based on the fusion of heterogeneous 3D data. In this term, a rigid registration process was performed. Before starting the modeling process, we need to validate the quality of the registration results, and this is one of the most difficult and open research problems. In this paper, we suggest a new method of evaluation of 3D point clouds based on feature extraction and comparison with a 2D reference model. This method is based on tow metrics: binary and fuzzy.