Experimental Evaluation of the Performance of Local Shape Descriptors for the Classification of 3D Data in Precision Farming

• 作者: Anatina Trakowski Florian Rist Jennifer Mack Katja Herzog Reinhard T?pfer Volker Steinhage
• 来源期刊: 电脑和通信(英文)
• 学科: 医学
• 关键词: DESCRIPTOR PERFORMANCE PRECISION FARMING 3D DATA
• 年，卷（期）: 2017,（12）
• 页码范围: 1-12
• 页数: 12页
• 分类号: R73

摘要

Object classification in high-density 3D point clouds with applications in precision farming is a very challenging area due to high intra-class variances and high degrees of occlusions and overlaps due to self-similarities and densely packed plant organs, especially in ripe growing stages. Due to these application specific challenges, this contribution gives an experimental evaluation of the performance of local shape descriptors (namely Point-Feature Histogram (PFH), Fast-Point-Feature Histogram (FPFH), Signature of Histograms of Orientations (SHOT), Rotational Projection Statistics (RoPS) and Spin Images) in the classification of 3D points into different types of plant organs. We achieve very good results on four representative scans of a leave, a grape bunch, a grape branch and a flower of between 94 and 99% accuracy in the case of supervised classification with an SVM and between 88 and 96% accuracy using a k-means clustering approach. Additionally, different distance measures and the influence of the number of cluster centres are examined.