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As PCEs are manufactured in a batch manner and possess complicated shapes, traditional manual inspection methods cannot meet today\u2019s requirements in terms of production rate of PCEs. The manual inspection of PCEs needs to be conducted one by one after the production, resulting in the excessive storage of finished PCEs in the storage yards. Therefore, many studies have proposed the use of terrestrial laser scanners (TLSs) for the quality inspection of PCEs. However, all these studies focus on the data of a single PCE or a single surface of PCE, which is acquired from a unique or predefined scanning angle. It is thus still inefficient and impractical in reality, where hundred types of PCEs with different properties may exist. Taking this cue, this study proposes to scan multiple PCEs simultaneously to improve the inspection efficiency by using TLSs. In particular, a segmentation and recognition approach is proposed to automatically extract and identify the different types of PCEs in a large amount of outdoor laser scan data. For the data segmentation, 3D data is first converted into 2D images. Image processing is then combined with radially bounded nearest neighbor graph (RBNN) algorithm to speed up the laser scan data segmentation. For the PCE recognition, based on the as-designed models of PCEs in building information modeling (BIM), the proposed method uses a coarse matching and a fine matching to recognize the type of each PCE data. To the best of our knowledge, no research work has been conducted on the automatic recognition of PCEs from a million or even ten million of the outdoor laser scan points, which contain many different types of PCEs. To verify the feasibility of the proposed method, experimental studies have been conducted on the PCE outdoor laser scan data, considering the shape, type, and amount of PCEs. In total, 22 PCEs including 12 different types are involved in this paper. Experiment results confirm the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed approach for automatic segmentation and recognition of different PCEs.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs11111383","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,6,11]],"date-time":"2019-06-11T10:55:44Z","timestamp":1560250544000},"page":"1383","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":23,"title":["Towards Automatic Segmentation and Recognition of Multiple Precast Concrete Elements in Outdoor Laser Scan Data"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"11","author":[{"given":"Jiepeng","family":"Liu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Civil Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400045, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7725-8040","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Dongsheng","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Civil Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400045, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8356-7242","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Liang","family":"Feng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Computer Science, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400045, China"}]},{"given":"Pengkun","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Civil Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400045, China"}]},{"given":"Wenbo","family":"Wu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Computer Science, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400045, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,6,10]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"309","DOI":"10.1016\/j.wasman.2008.02.015","article-title":"Quantifying the waste reduction potential of using prefabrication in building construction in Hong Kong","volume":"29","author":"Jaillon","year":"2009","journal-title":"Waste Manag."},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"14","DOI":"10.15554\/pcij.05012001.14.19","article-title":"Social and Environmental Benefits of Precast Concrete Technology","volume":"46","author":"Yee","year":"2001","journal-title":"PCI J."},{"key":"ref_3","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"206","DOI":"10.1061\/(ASCE)0733-9364(2004)130:2(206)","article-title":"Process Model Perspectives on Management and Engineering Procedures in the Precast\/Prestressed Concrete Industry","volume":"130","author":"Sacks","year":"2004","journal-title":"J. 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