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Automotive Engineering ›› 2023, Vol. 45 ›› Issue (4): 572-578.doi: 10.19562/j.chinasae.qcgc.2023.04.005

Special Issue: 智能网联汽车技术专题-感知&HMI&测评2023年

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Study on Improved Point Cloud Registration Algorithm Enhanced by Double Down-sampling

Zhongsheng Chen1,2(),Chaolin Li2,Wang Zuo2,Xinglin Hou1   

  1. 1.College of Automotive Engineering,Changzhou Institute of Technology,Changzhou  213032
    2.College of Electrical and Information Engineering,Hunan University of Technology,Zhuzhou  417002
  • Received:2022-10-16 Revised:2022-11-20 Online:2023-04-25 Published:2023-04-19
  • Contact: Zhongsheng Chen E-mail:chenzs@czu.cn

Abstract:

In the field of autonomous driving, the real-time requirement of point cloud registration is high. Existing ICP algorithm and its variants have such problems as high requirements for initial pose and slow registration speed. In order to deal with the above-mentioned problems, an improved fast point cloud registration algorithm is proposed in this paper. Firstly, a double down-sampling method is used to preprocess point cloud data. By this way, the amount of point cloud data can be greatly reduced rapidly, while retaining the original features. Then the Intrinsic Shape Signature (ISS) is introduced to optimize the Super 4-Points Congruent Sets (Super4PCS) algorithm to reduce its time complexity. Finally, the linear least squares optimization-based iterative closest point (ICP) algorithm is used for fast and precise registration. The effectiveness of the algorithm is tested and compared by using the Stanford and autonomous driving Kitti point cloud data. The results show that the proposed algorithm has good robustness, and the registration accuracy and speed are significantly increased compared with the existing algorithms.

Key words: point cloud registration, double down-sampling, ISS, Super4PCS, ICP