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To address these challenges, constraints on object\u2019s size, height, area, and orientation are generally benefited which adversely affect the detection performance. Often the buildings either small in size, under shadows or partly occluded are ousted during elimination of superfluous objects. To overcome the limitations, a methodology is developed to extract and regularise the buildings using features from point cloud and orthoimagery. The building delineation process is carried out by identifying the candidate building regions and segmenting them into grids. Vegetation elimination, building detection and extraction of their partially occluded parts are achieved by synthesising the point cloud and image data. Finally, the detected buildings are regularised by exploiting the image lines in the building regularisation process. Detection and regularisation processes have been evaluated using the ISPRS benchmark and four Australian data sets which differ in point density (1 to 29 points\/m2), building sizes, shadows, terrain, and vegetation. Results indicate that there is 83% to 93% per-area completeness with the correctness of above 95%, demonstrating the robustness of the approach. The absence of over- and many-to-many segmentation errors in the ISPRS data set indicate that the technique has higher per-object accuracy. While compared with six existing similar methods, the proposed detection and regularisation approach performs significantly better on more complex data sets (Australian) in contrast to the ISPRS benchmark, where it does better or equal to the counterparts.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs8030258","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2016,3,17]],"date-time":"2016-03-17T11:36:02Z","timestamp":1458214562000},"page":"258","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":87,"title":["An Automatic Building Extraction and Regularisation Technique Using LiDAR Point Cloud Data and Orthoimage"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"8","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3129-3363","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Syed","family":"Gilani","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University, Clayton VIC 3800, Australia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Mohammad","family":"Awrangjeb","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Information and Communication Technology Griffith Sciences, Griffith University, Nathan QLD 4111, Australia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Guojun","family":"Lu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Engineering and Information Technology, Federation University Australia, Churchill VIC 3842, Australia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2016,3,17]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"16","DOI":"10.1080\/17538940903506014","article-title":"Geo-spatial information and technologies in support of EU crisis management","volume":"3","year":"2010","journal-title":"Int. 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