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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>
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<publisher-loc>Göttingen, Germany</publisher-loc>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/isprsarchives-XXXIX-B5-193-2012</article-id>
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<article-title>CURB-BASED STREET FLOOR EXTRACTION FROM MOBILE TERRESTRIAL LIDAR POINT CLOUD</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Ibrahim</surname>
<given-names>S.</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>Lichti</surname>
<given-names>D.</given-names>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<label>1</label>
<addr-line>Department of Geomatics Engineering, University of Calgary, 2500 University Dr NW, Calgary, Alberta, T2N1N4 Canada</addr-line>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>27</day>
<month>07</month>
<year>2012</year>
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<volume>XXXIX-B5</volume>
<fpage>193</fpage>
<lpage>198</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2012 S. Ibrahim</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2012</copyright-year>
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<p>Mobile terrestrial laser scanners (MTLS) produce huge 3D point clouds describing the terrestrial surface, from which objects like
different street furniture can be generated. Extraction and modelling of the street curb and the street floor from MTLS point clouds
is important for many applications such as right-of-way asset inventory, road maintenance and city planning. The proposed pipeline
for the curb and street floor extraction consists of a sequence of five steps: organizing the 3D point cloud and nearest neighbour
search; 3D density-based segmentation to segment the ground; morphological analysis to refine out the ground segment; derivative
of Gaussian filtering to detect the curb; solving the travelling salesman problem to form a closed polygon of the curb and point-inpolygon
test to extract the street floor. Two mobile laser scanning datasets of different scenes are tested with the proposed pipeline.
The results of the extracted curb and street floor are evaluated based on a truth data. The obtained detection rates for the extracted
street floor for the datasets are 95% and 96.53%. This study presents a novel approach to the detection and extraction of the road
curb and the street floor from unorganized 3D point clouds captured by MTLS. It utilizes only the 3D coordinates of the point cloud.</p>
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