Virtual laser scanning with HELIOS++: A novel take on ray tracing-based simulation of topographic 3D laser scanning

Lukas Winiwarter, Alberto Manuel Esmorís Pena, Hannah Weiser, Katharina Anders, Jorge Martínez Sanchez, Mark Searle, Bernhard Höfle · Remote Sensing of Environment 2022 · 2022

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Topics
lidar-simulation, occlusion
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P2 · NeurIPS 2027, P3 · Q1 journal

What they did

Presents HELIOS++, an open-source ray-tracing simulator for terrestrial, mobile, UAV and airborne laser scanning, with a beam–scene interaction model that balances physical realism against computing cost.

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Code

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3dgeo-heidelberg/helios
Framework
C++ with Python bindings
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BibTeX

@article{winiwarter2022-helios,
  title = {{Virtual laser scanning with HELIOS++: A novel take on ray tracing-based simulation of topographic 3D laser scanning}},
  author = {Lukas Winiwarter and Alberto Manuel Esmorís Pena and Hannah Weiser and Katharina Anders and Jorge Martínez Sanchez and Mark Searle and Bernhard Höfle},
  journal = {Remote Sensing of Environment 2022},
  year = {2022},
  doi = {10.1016/j.rse.2021.112772},
  eprint = {2101.09154},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv}
}