A survey of recent 3D scene analysis and processing methods

With ubiquitous cameras and popular 3D scanning and capturing devices to help us capture 2D/3D scene data, there are many scene understanding related applications, as well as quite a few important and interesting research problems in processing, analyzing, and understanding the available scene data. During the recent several years, there is a significant advancement in different research directions in this field and quite a few novel 3D scene analysis and processing methods have been proposed correspondingly in each direction. This paper provides a review and critical evaluation on the most recent (i.e., within five recent years) and novel data-driven or semantics-driven 3D scene analysis and processing methods, as well as several involved 3D scene datasets. For each method, its advantage(s) and disadvantage(s) are discussed, after an overview and/or analysis of the approach. Finally, based on the review, we propose several promising future research directions in this field.