Indoor A* Pathfinding through an Octree Representation of a Point Cloud

There is a growing demand of 3D indoor pathfinding applications. Researched in the field of robotics during the last decades of the 20th century, these methods focussed on 2D navigation. Nowadays we would like to have the ability to help people navigate inside buildings or send a drone inside a building when this is too dangerous for people....

New point matching algorithm for panoramic reflectance images

Much attention is paid to registration of terrestrial point clouds nowadays. Research is carried out towards improved efficiency and automation of the registration process. The most important part of registration is finding correspondence. The panoramic reflectance images are generated according to the angular coordinates and reflectance value...