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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">ISPRS-Archives</journal-id>
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<journal-title>The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences</journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="publisher">ISPRS-Archives</abbrev-journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="nlm-ta">Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.</abbrev-journal-title>
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<issn pub-type="epub">2194-9034</issn>
<publisher><publisher-name>Copernicus Publications</publisher-name>
<publisher-loc>Göttingen, Germany</publisher-loc>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/isprs-archives-XLIX-B2-2026-437-2026</article-id>
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<article-title>Robust Cross-Modal Matching between LiDAR Point Clouds and Multi-Camera Images in Tunnel Environments via Surface Parameterization</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Jiang</surname>
<given-names>Ying</given-names>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Liu</surname>
<given-names>Feng</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">
<sup>2</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Hu</surname>
<given-names>Han</given-names>
</name>
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<sup>1</sup>
</xref>
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<sup>3</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Ding</surname>
<given-names>Yulin</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
</xref>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff3">
<sup>3</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Wang</surname>
<given-names>Chong</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff3">
<sup>3</sup>
</xref>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff4">
<sup>4</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Wen</surname>
<given-names>Ping</given-names>
</name>
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<sup>3</sup>
</xref>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff4">
<sup>4</sup>
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</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Zhu</surname>
<given-names>Qing</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
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<label>1</label>
<addr-line>Faculty of Geosciences and Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 611756, China</addr-line>
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<label>2</label>
<addr-line>CRSC Communication &amp; Information Group Co., Ltd., Beijing 100080, China</addr-line>
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<label>3</label>
<addr-line>Yunnan Engineering Research Center of 3D Real Scene, Kunming 650500, China</addr-line>
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<label>4</label>
<addr-line>Kunming Engineering Corporation Limited, Kunming 650500, China</addr-line>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>23</day>
<month>07</month>
<year>2026</year>
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<volume>XLIX-B2-2026</volume>
<fpage>437</fpage>
<lpage>444</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2026 Ying Jiang et al.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2026</copyright-year>
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<license-p>This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this licence, visit <ext-link ext-link-type="uri"  xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</ext-link></license-p>
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<p>Tunnel lining defect detection increasingly depends on LiDAR and multi-camera collaboration for high-precision 3D modeling. However, sparse textures, repetitive structures, and insufficient lighting limit camera overlap, compromising target-free cross-modal matching. We propose leveraging inherent tunnel structural regularity for robust matching by projecting LiDAR intensity data and stitched images onto a shared parameterized surface. Leveraging geometric priors, LiDAR point clouds are fitted to cross-sections and unrolled into a 2D intensity map within a longitudinal-angular domain. Simultaneously, eight images undergo photometric normalization and stitching into a panoramic image sampled in the same domain. Feature extraction and matching occur in this unified 2D space, with correspondences mapped back to 3D-2D relationships via invertible bi-directional mapping. This approach facilitates geometric constraints and consistency checks to filter unreliable matches. Experiments on the Daliang and Zhaobishan railway tunnels demonstrate that our method generates significantly more geometrically verified correspondences compared to direct image matching. Matching stability is enhanced, with high alignment precision at structural edges, effectively supporting subsequent fusion and analysis tasks.</p>
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