The aerospace industry faces critical demands for automated and intelligent grinding of
welds on curved surfaces. The combination of 3D vision technology and robot grinding …

Peatland restoration aims to achieve pristine water pathway conditions to recover dispersed
wetness, water quality, biodiversity and carbon sequestration. Restoration monitoring needs …

Currently, the street tree resource survey using Mobile laser scanning (MLS) represents a
hot spot around the world. Refined trunk extraction is an essential step for 3D reconstruction …

In the process of acquiring point cloud data by a 3D laser scanner, some problems, such as
outliers, mixed points, and holes, may be caused in the target point cloud due to the external …

Using point cloud to reconstruct the 3D model of a substation is crucial for smart grid
operation. Its main objective is to swiftly capture equipment point cloud data and align each …

This review aims at introducing laser scanning technology and providing an overview of the
contribution of open source projects for supporting the utilization and analysis of laser …

The cantilever structure of catenary system (CSCS) is crucial to support whole catenary
system. CSCS may deform after a long-time operation because of the bad environment and …

Rigid registration of 3D point clouds is the key technology in robotics and computer vision.
Most commonly, the iterative closest point (ICP) and its variants are employed for this task …

Open geospatial data and tools are an increasingly important paradigm offering the
opportunity to promote the democratization of geographical information, the transparency of …

Time of Flight (ToF) sensors are the source of various errors, including the multi-camera
interference artifact caused by the parallel scanning mode of the sensors. This paper …