A Review of Point Cloud Registration Algorithms for Laser Scanners: Applications in Large-Scale Aircraft Measurement
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
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Author Response
Dear Reviewer:
On behalf of my co-authors, I would like to thanks for your kindly comments of this paper. The reviewer’s comments were helpful to our manuscript, and we have carefully considered and responded to each suggestion. We included below a response to reviewer in which we address each comment made by the reviewer.
Point 1: Page 19 Line 726 “Figure 11” it must be Figure 10b.
Response 1: Thank you for your kindly reminder. We have adjusted pictures in the manuscript because of the copyright problem. This part of your point is not adjusted due to our negligence, and we have deleted it now.
Point 2: Page 2 line 47
“Engineering measurements include forest structure assessments [1-3], landslide surveillance [4-5] and 3D model reconstruction [6-9], which play a critical role in scientific and engineering research.”
Since the paper is a review and the applications of laser scanner data in engineering is too popular in recent years the references for the applications should be widen.
Response 2: Thank you for your introduction to these wonderful research work. We have already added these related references in the revised manuscript as References [4-10], [13-16], [21-25]. (Page 2 line 47: “Engineering measurements include forest structure assessments [1-10], landslide surveil-lance [11-16] and 3D model reconstruction [17-25], which play a critical role in scientific and engineering research.”)
We appreciate for Editors/Reviewers’ warm work earnestly, and hope that the correction will meet with approval. Once again, thank you very much for your comments and suggestions.
Kind regards
Jingxuan Qiu
Corresponding author: Haiqing Si
E-mail: [email protected]
Reviewer 2 Report
Fig10: Give units for RMSE results. And How did you get the initial registration and ground truth data.
Author Response
Dear Reviewer:
On behalf of my co-authors, I would like to thanks for your kindly comments of this paper. The reviewer’s comments were helpful to our manuscript, and we have carefully considered and responded to each suggestion. We included below a response to reviewer in which we address each comment made by the reviewer.
Point 1: Fig10: Give units for RMSE results.
Response 1: Thank you for your kindly reminder. The unit for RMSE results is mm, and we have added the unit—mm in Figure 10.
Point 2: Fig10: How did you get the initial registration?
Response 2: Thank you for your valuable comment. In reference [149],the initial registration is gotten through the geometric relationship between the contour line of the aircraft fuel tank and the sealed rivets.
Point 3: Fig10: How did you get the ground truth data?
Response 3: Thank you for your insightful comment. In reference [149], the ground truth of the raw scanned data is obtained by structured-light 3D scanner with laser tracker. Note that the experiment scene of the aircraft fuel tank is open, so we can acquire the ground truth by the combination of a structured-light 3D scanner and a laser tracker. Furthermore, we have added the relevant contents that marked in red in this manuscript.
We appreciate for Editors/Reviewers’ warm work earnestly, and hope that the correction will meet with approval. Once again, thank you very much for your comments and suggestions.
Kind regards
Jingxuan Qiu
Corresponding author: Haiqing Si
E-mail: [email protected]
Reviewer 3 Report
This paper provides an exhaustive survey of the field of point cloud registration for laser scanner and examines its application in large-scale aircraft measurement. The work is well organized and comprehensively described.
Author Response
Dear Reviewer:
On behalf of my co-authors, I would like to thanks for your approval of this paper.
Kind regards
Jingxuan Qiu
Corresponding author: Haiqing Si
E-mails: [email protected]
