sgt.bf.cylinder: Stem segmentation algorithm: Brute Force cylinder fit
In TreeLS: Terrestrial Point Cloud Processing of Forest Data

Description Usage Arguments Brute Force Cylinder Fit

This function is meant to be used inside stemSegmentation. It applies a least squares cylinder fit algorithm in a RANSAC fashion over stem segments. More details are given in the sections below.

1	sgt.bf.cylinder(tol = 0.1, n = 10, conf = 0.95, inliers = 0.9, z_dev = 30)

`tol`	`numeric` - tolerance offset between absolute radii estimates and hough transform estimates.
`n`	`numeric` - number of points selected on every RANSAC iteration.
`conf`	`numeric` - confidence level.
`inliers`	`numeric` - expected proportion of inliers among stem segments' point cloud chunks.
`z_dev`	`numeric` - maximum angle deviation for brute force cylinder estimation (`bf`), i.e. angle, in degrees (0-90), that a cylinder can be tilted in relation to a perfect vertival axis (`Z = c(0,0,1)`).

The brute force cylinder fit approach estimates the axis rotation angles by brute force combined with 2D ransac circle fit. The coordinates of a point cloud representing a single cylinder are iteratively rotated up to a pre defined threshold, and for every iteration a circle is estimated after rotation is performed. The rotation that minimizes the circle parameters the most is used to describe the axis direction of the cylinder with the circle's radius.

The parameters returned by the brute force cylinder fit method are:

X,Y: 2D circle center coordinates after rotation
Radius: 3D circle radius, in point cloud units
Error: model circle error from the RANSAC least squares fit, after rotation
DX,DY: absolute rotation angles (in degrees) applied to the X and Y axes, respectively
AvgHeight: average height of the stem segment's points
N: number of points belonging to the stem segment