remove moving traffic from pointcloud

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remove moving traffic from pointcloud

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Hi All

At our company we have started to work with mobile mapping solutions.
But in this scan, we have a lot of moving traffic. We got a few different scannings of the same area, so we have somnething to compare.
This scan is structured. Is it possible to filter out the moving traffic? im thinking, that the traffic isnt identical in both the scanworlds, so it should be possible to compare them and automatically filter out some of the cars and crosswalkers?
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I don't know if there are any automated solutions but there was a plugin in CloudCompare called Sweeper and this lets you semi-automatically remove "traffic weeds". Wes Grimes was responsible for the development of this and as far as I know, it is freely available.

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The "Region Grow Smooth Surface" tool in Cyclone is pretty good for this sort of thing!
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Below is a short intro showing results from an App we developed to eliminate moving objects in scans. Have a look and PM me or email if you want to give it a try, have questions or are just curious.


https://vimeo.com/257156732

Another more lengthy workflow description

https://vimeo.com/254383882

And finally, a brief narrative of one of our crew members describing the app from the field.

https://vimeo.com/263608761/1f0d8fc466

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Our 3DPointLogic post processing toolkit provides some great noise filtering functions. We offer a free 30-day evaluation account, which you will find on our website at - https://solv3d.com/products/3dpointlogic/
Please feel free to contact me with any questions you may have.
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sreed wrote: Tue Apr 24, 2018 2:11 pm Below is a short intro showing results from an App we developed to eliminate moving objects in scans. Have a look and PM me or email if you want to give it a try, have questions or are just curious.


https://vimeo.com/257156732

Another more lengthy workflow description

https://vimeo.com/254383882

And finally, a brief narrative of one of our crew members describing the app from the field.

https://vimeo.com/263608761/1f0d8fc466

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This one looks very interresting! I would like go give it a try and come back with feedback in this post!
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In your ModelSpace create a fence around the desired target or area where you wish to remove the object from > add inside fence > create object, region-grow, smooth suface (defaults should be ok) > click the red X to delete.
Just be sure that you don't create a fence around anything else above that plane because it will remove anything that isn't on the ground plane
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Cyclone - Smoth Surface Region Grow Tool

youtu.be/AhJvjpzC3cU
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sreed wrote: Tue Apr 24, 2018 2:11 pm Below is a short intro showing results from an App we developed to eliminate moving objects in scans.
Nice. If this works as well as the video shows then I could live with doing twice as many scans.
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We use "region grow" a lot. We always get left with those triangular bits like the video shows. Most annoying, but way faster than anything else we've tried.
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