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p=alb (14)
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F=u,/zab (15)
As the same with Hu's 7 moment invariants, in actual data
processing, (» and F should be expressed by normalized central
moments.
4. AIRPLANE RECOGNITION METHOD
In LiDAR data, the direction of airplane is arbitrary, the outline
and size are usually different, but they are similar in appearance,
so the method must consider deformation and scale invariance.
We use prior knowledge and invariant recognition moment to
recognise airplanes (even hidden targets mainly under the cover
of canopy). Figure 1 shows the processing procedure as follows:
1. Filter and classify point cloud data into ground points
and non-ground points;
2. Organize non-ground points by KD-tree;
3. Cluster the organized point cloud data and calculate
the different targets;
4. Transfer each object into depth image. Assign the
minimum and maximum of the targets’ height as 0 and 255,
so the height range can be extended to 0-255;
5. Refine depth image;
6. Remove the incorrect results based on prior
knowledge such as the targets' length, width, height
and the ratio of length to width;
7. Calculate seven invariant moments of airplanes;
8. Identify target by Euclidean distance between the
target and template which was built before.
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Identify Targets by Euclidean Distance
Figure 1. Flowchart of airplane recognition
5. EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS AND ANALYSIS
In this section, we experimented on the LiDAR point cloud data
to confirm the recognition method for airplane targets proposed
in this paper. The point cloud data to be identified is shown in
Figure 2 (the red and green points respectively represent ground
and non-ground points), which contains 23128 points and with
a density of 2.4 points/m?, and the results of target recognition
are shown in Figure 3 (the green and red points respectively
represent airplane target and other target points).
Figure 2. Point cloud data to be identified