NDLI: Fast and accurate computation of surface normals from range images

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Badino, H. Huber, D. Park, Y. Kanade, T.
Copyright Year	2011
Description	Author affiliation: Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA (Badino, H.; Huber, D.; Kanade, T.) \|\| Agency for Defence Development, Daejeon, Korea (Park, Y.)
Abstract	The fast and accurate computation of surface normals from a point cloud is a critical step for many 3D robotics and automotive problems, including terrain estimation, mapping, navigation, object segmentation, and object recognition. To obtain the tangent plane to the surface at a point, the traditional approach applies total least squares to its small neighborhood. However, least squares becomes computationally very expensive when applied to the millions of measurements per second that current range sensors can generate. We reformulate the traditional least squares solution to allow the fast computation of surface normals, and propose a new approach that obtains the normals by calculating the derivatives of the surface from a spherical range image. Furthermore, we show that the traditional least squares problem is very sensitive to range noise and must be normalized to obtain accurate results. Experimental results with synthetic and real data demonstrate that our proposed method is not only more efficient by up to two orders of magnitude, but provides better accuracy than the traditional least squares for practical neighborhood sizes.
Starting Page	3084
Ending Page	3091
File Size	1926403
Page Count	8
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781612843865
ISSN	10504729
e-ISBN	9781612843858
DOI	10.1109/ICRA.2011.5980275
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2011-05-09
Publisher Place	China
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Equations Mathematical model Three dimensional displays Noise Least squares approximation Sensors Accuracy
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Artificial Intelligence Control and Systems Engineering Electrical and Electronic Engineering Software

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