Urban object segmentation and classification tasks are critical data processing steps in scene understanding, intelligent vehicles and 3D high-precision maps. Semantic segmentation of 3D point clouds is the foundational step in object recognition. To identify the intersecting objects and improve the accuracy of classification, this paper proposes a segment-based classification method for 3D point clouds. This method firstly divides points into multi-scale supervoxels and groups them by proposed inverse node graph (IN-Graph) construction, which does not need to define prior information about the node, it divides supervoxels by judging the connection state of edges between them. This method reaches minimum global energy by graph cutting, obtains the structural segments as completely as possible, and retains boundaries at the same time. Then, the random forest classifier is utilized for supervised classification. To deal with the mislabeling of scattered fragments, higher-order CRF with small-label cluster optimization is proposed to refine the classification results. Experiments were carried out on mobile laser scan (MLS) point dataset and terrestrial laser scan (TLS) points dataset, and the results show that overall accuracies of 97.57% and 96.39% were obtained in the two datasets. The boundaries of objects were retained well, and the method achieved a good result in the classification of cars and motorcycles. More experimental analyses have verified the advantages of the proposed method and proved the practicability and versatility of the method.
This paper redefines point cloud density by utilizing statistical skewness derived from the geometric relationships between points and their local centroids. By comparing with a symmetric uniform reference model, this method can efficiently describe distribution patterns and detect non-uniform regions. Furthermore, a deep learning model trained on these skewness features achieves 85.96% accuracy in automated boundary extraction, significantly reducing omission errors compared to conventional density-based methods. The proposed framework offers an effective solution for automated point cloud segmentation and modeling.
Point cloud semantic segmentation is a key technology for applications such as autonomous driving, robotics, and virtual reality. Current approaches are heavily reliant on local relative coordinates and simplistic attention mechanisms to aggregate neighborhood information. This often leads to an ineffective joint representation of geometric perturbations and feature variations, coupled with a lack of adaptive selection for salient features during context fusion. On this basis, we propose LSSCC-Net, a novel segmentation framework based on LACV-Net. First, the spatial-feature dynamic aggregation module is designed to fuse offset information by symmetric interaction between spatial positions and feature channels, thus supplementing local structural information. Second, a dual-dimensional attention mechanism (spatial and channel) is introduced to symmetrically deploy attention modules in both the encoder and decoder, prioritizing salient information extraction. Finally, Lovász-Softmax Loss is used as an auxiliary loss to optimize the training objective. The proposed method is evaluated on two public benchmark datasets. The mIoU on the Toronto3D and S3DIS datasets is 83.6% and 65.2%, respectively. Compared with the baseline LACV-Net, LSSCC-Net showed notable improvements in challenging categories: the IoU for “road mark” and “fence” on Toronto3D increased by 3.6% and 8.1%, respectively. These results indicate that LSSCC-Net more accurately characterizes complex boundaries and fine-grained structures, enhancing segmentation capabilities for small-scale targets and category boundaries.