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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">ISPRS-Annals</journal-id>
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<journal-title>ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences</journal-title>
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<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="nlm-ta">ISPRS Ann. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.</abbrev-journal-title>
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<issn pub-type="epub">2194-9050</issn>
<publisher><publisher-name>Copernicus Publications</publisher-name>
<publisher-loc>Göttingen, Germany</publisher-loc>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/isprs-annals-X-1-W2-2025-91-2025</article-id>
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<article-title>Cross-source Registration of Point Clouds in Urban Scenes using Structured Features</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Peng</surname>
<given-names>Shu</given-names>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Li</surname>
<given-names>Minglei</given-names>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Zhang</surname>
<given-names>Junnan</given-names>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Tang</surname>
<given-names>Jiarui</given-names>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<label>1</label>
<addr-line>College of Electronic and Information Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 211106 Nanjing, China</addr-line>
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<label>2</label>
<addr-line>Key Laboratory of Radar Imaging and Microwave Photonics (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics), Ministry of Education, 211106 Nanjing, China</addr-line>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>03</day>
<month>11</month>
<year>2025</year>
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<volume>X-1/W2-2025</volume>
<fpage>91</fpage>
<lpage>98</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2025 Shu Peng et al.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2025</copyright-year>
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<license-p>This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this licence, visit <ext-link ext-link-type="uri"  xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</ext-link></license-p>
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<p>Cross-source point cloud registration technology offers the potential to harness the complementary advantages of multiple data sources by registering and integrating point clouds from diverse origins. This paper proposes a cross-source point cloud coarse registration method based on structured features in urban scenes. Firstly, we extract adjacent plane intersection lines and vertical plane boundary lines from the vertical planes of the building point cloud. Subsequently, we construct triangles based on the intersection of vertical feature lines with the ground, and use geometric constraints and semantic information for triangle matching. Finally, quick validation and fine validation are sequentially employed to determine the optimal coarse registration transformation matrix. Our experimental results demonstrate that, in comparison to point feature-based and similar point cloud coarse registration methods, the proposed method exhibits superior average accuracy, efficiency, and robustness.</p>
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