Although the Slicing Method (SM) is effective for calculating the volume of point cloud objects (PCOs), it has limitations in terms of applicability and practicality due to the unforeseen circumstances and method defects. The paper proposes the Co-Opposite-Direction Slicing Method (CODSM) – an improved method which calculates the PCO volume by increasing the parallel observation (co-opposite-direction) and considering the two-way mean as the result. The proposed method fully exploits the mutual offset of random errors and the compensation of systematic directional errors, which allows effectively overcome (or mitigate) the effect of random errors and reduce the effect of systematic errors in SM. Two typical objects- a cone model and a stone lion base- are used as examples for calculating the PCO volume using CODSM. The results show that CODSM has all the inherent advantages of SM and effectively weakens the volatility of random errors and directionality of systematic errors of SM, which verifies that CODSM is a robust configuration upgrade of SM.
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Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 7, pp. 103–114, July, 2021.
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Li, B., Bi, X., Peng, C. et al. Calculation of Point Cloud Object Volume Using the Co-Opposite-Direction Slicing Method. Russ Phys J 64, 1289–1302 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11182-021-02455-7
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