Bulletin of Surveying and Mapping ›› 2020, Vol. 0 ›› Issue (10): 38-42.doi: 10.13474/j.cnki.11-2246.2020.0315

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A normal distribution transform point cloud registration method based on BFGS correction

YUAN Zhicong1,3, LU Tieding1,2, LIU Rui1   

  1. 1. Faculty of Geomatics, East China University of Technology, Nanchang 330013, China;
    2. Key laboratory of watershed ecology and geographical environment monitoring, National Administration of Surveying, Mapping and Geoinformation, Nanchang 330013, China;
    3. Zhuhai Surveying and Mapping Institute, Zhuhai 519000, China
  • Received:2019-11-18 Online:2020-10-25 Published:2020-10-29

Abstract: Point cloud registration is a key problem in point cloud data processing. For the problem of solving the Hessian matrix with high time complexity for the original normal distribution transformation algorithm, a modified normal distribution transform point cloud registration method based on the BFGS algorithm is proposed. The positive definite matrix is updated with the gradient value and incremental parameters of the objective function. The inverse matrix of the Hessian matrix is almost replaced by a positive definite matrix, which reduces the time complexity of the algorithm, ensures that the direction of each iteration of the algorithm is the direction where the function value drops in. The feasibility of this algorithm is verified by simulated data and measured data experiments. This algorithm improves the registration efficiency of the algorithm while maintaining the accuracy of the original normal distribution transformation algorithm.

Key words: point cloud registration, normal distribution transformation algorithm, Hessian matrix, BFGS algorithm, positive definite matrix

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