TerraMobilita/iQmulus urban point cloud analysis benchmark

The objective of the TerraMobilita/iQmulus 3D urban analysis benchmark is to evaluate the current state of the art in urban scene analysis from mobile laser scanning (MLS) at large scale. A very detailed semantic tree for urban scenes is proposed. We call analysis the capacity of a method to separate the points of the scene into these categories (classification), and to separate the different objects of the same type for object classes (detection). A very large ground truth is produced manually in two steps using advanced editing tools developed especially for this benchmark. Based on this ground truth, the benchmark aims at evaluating the classification, detection and segmentation quality of the submitted results. Graphical abstractDisplay Omitted HighlightsVery rich data: high accuracy, high resolution, many attributes.Massive data: 160 million annotated points thanks to a performant web based annotation tool (and many hours of work).Rich semantics organized in a semantic tree with various levels of generalization.Very objective evaluation metrics.