Real-time Rail Recognition Based on 3D Point Clouds

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2201.02726v1
• Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2022 01:42:02 GMT
• Title: Real-time Rail Recognition Based on 3D Point Clouds
• Abstract summary: A real-time rail recognition method based on 3D point clouds is proposed to solve the challenges, such as disorderly, uneven density and large volume of the point clouds. A multi-scale neural network is proposed to generate the prediction results of each voxel and the rail location. The results show that the method has good performance in detecting straight, curved and other complex topologies.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Accurate rail location is a crucial part in the railway support driving system for safety monitoring. LiDAR can obtain point clouds that carry 3D information for the railway environment, especially in darkness and terrible weather conditions. In this paper, a real-time rail recognition method based on 3D point clouds is proposed to solve the challenges, such as disorderly, uneven density and large volume of the point clouds. A voxel down-sampling method is first presented for density balanced of railway point clouds, and pyramid partition is designed to divide the 3D scanning area into the voxels with different volumes. Then, a feature encoding module is developed to find the nearest neighbor points and to aggregate their local geometric features for the center point. Finally, a multi-scale neural network is proposed to generate the prediction results of each voxel and the rail location. The experiments are conducted under 9 sequences of 3D point cloud data for the railway. The results show that the method has good performance in detecting straight, curved and other complex topologies rails.

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