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However, due to scanning errors and the effects of occlusion by various types of features in the urban environment, street tree point cloud data processing has the problem of excessive noise. For the noise points that are difficult to remove using statistical methods in close proximity to the tree trunk, we propose an adaptive trunk extraction and denoising method for street trees based on an improved iForest (Isolation Forest) algorithm. Firstly, to extract the individual tree trunk points, the trunk and the crown are distinguished from the individual tree point cloud through point cloud slicing. Next, the iForest algorithm is improved by conducting automatic calculation of the contamination and further used to denoise the tree trunk point cloud. Finally, the method is validated with five datasets of different scenes. The results indicate that our method is robust and effective in extracting and denoising tree trunks. Compared with the traditional Statistical Outlier Removal (SOR) filter and Radius filter denoising methods, the denoising accuracy of the proposed method can be improved by approximately 30% for noise points close to tree trunks. Compared to iForest, the proposed method automatically calculates the contamination, improving the automation of the algorithm. 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