提出稀疏分割框架SparseGF,提升复杂地形点云滤波鲁棒性。
SparseGF: A Height-Aware Sparse Segmentation Framework with Context Compression for Robust Ground Filtering Across Urban to Natural Scenes

- 通过上下文压缩模块保留关键细节,缓解大场景计算压力。
- 在城市与森林区域均实现领先性能,城市场景表现最优。
- 引入高程感知损失函数,减少高物体误分类问题。
从机载激光雷达(ALS)数据生成高质量数字地形模型需依赖鲁棒的地面滤波(GF),将点云分离为地物与非地物部分。尽管现有深度学习方法在特定复杂地形表现优异,但跨场景泛化能力受限于两大难题:大规模处理中的上下文-细节权衡及仅靠分类优化导致的高物体随机误判。为此,本文提出SparseGF,一种高度感知的稀疏分割框架,融合上下文压缩机制。其核心创新包括:(1) 受凸面镜启发的上下文压缩模块,将大范围上下文浓缩为紧凑表示并保留中心细节;(2) 混合稀疏体素-点网络架构,有效解析压缩表示,同时缓解压缩带来的几何失真;(3) 高度感知损失函数,在训练中显式引入地形高程先验,抑制高物体误分类。在两个大规模ALS基准数据集上的大量实验表明,SparseGF在城市至自然场景间均具强鲁棒性,在复杂城市区域达到领先性能,混合地形表现良好,密集森林陡坡区域虽略降但无灾难性误差。本工作为深度学习地面滤波研究提供新视角,推动面向大规模环境监测的真正跨场景泛化发展。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
High-quality digital terrain models derived from airborne laser scanning (ALS) data are essential for a wide range of geospatial analyses, and their generation typically relies on robust ground filtering (GF) to separate point clouds across diverse landscapes into ground and non-ground parts. Although current deep-learning-based GF methods have demonstrated impressive performance, especially in specific challenging terrains, their cross-scene generalization remains limited by two persistent issues: the context-detail dilemma in large-scale processing due to limited computational resources, and the random misclassification of tall objects arising from classification-only optimization. To overcome these limitations, we propose SparseGF, a height-aware sparse segmentation framework enhanced with context compression. It is built upon three key innovations: (1) a convex-mirror-inspired context compression module that condenses expansive contexts into compact representations while preserving central details; (2) a hybrid sparse voxel-point network architecture that effectively interprets compressed representations while mitigating compression-induced geometric distortion; and (3) a height-aware loss function that explicitly enforces topographic elevation priors during training to suppress random misclassification of tall objects. Extensive evaluations on two large-scale ALS benchmark datasets demonstrate that SparseGF delivers robust GF across urban to natural terrains, achieving leading performance in complex urban scenes, competitive results on mixed terrains, and moderate yet non-catastrophic accuracy in densely forested steep areas. This work offers new insights into deep-learning-based GF research and encourages further exploration toward truly cross-scene generalization for large-scale environmental monitoring.
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