Patent Document ID: 20110305372
Application ID: 12935791
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A method for computer-aided segmentation of an environment into individual objects, in particular of a wood into individual trees, in which signals (SIG_R) which are backscattered by the objects are recorded by measurement technology, with the backscattered signals (SIG_R) resulting from the irradiation of the environment to be segmented with electromagnetic radiation; spatial co-ordinates (x, y, z) of points which cause the backscattering and represent the object parts (X 1 , X 2 ,. .. , X 5 ) are determined from the backscattered signals (SIG_R), and a feature vector (f) is assigned to each of the points (P; P 1 , P 2 ), which feature vector comprises at least the spatial co-ordinates (x, y, z) of the point in question (P; P 1 , P 2 ); a distance measure (d) is determined for each of the feature vectors (f), which represents a similarity between the feature vectors (f) of two points (P; P 1 , P 2 ); the feature vectors (f) assigned to the points (P; P 1 , P 2 ) are allocated to disjoint segments (A, B) in such a manner that a cost function (E) which takes into account the distance measures (d) of all the feature vectors (f) to each other is minimised, as a result of which the segmentation of the environment into individual objects is provided.