SMRF replacement?

[smathermather]

Call me grump, but I don't like SMRF. I think it's difficult to tune, still doesn't give great results, and could be upgraded / updated with better algorithms easily.

Any objection to testing the alternatives? And if we are doing so, what are our criteria?

https://pdal.io/en/latest/stages/filters.html#classification

I'm a huge fan of filters.pmf in my own work, mostly just set and forget. What have others experienced?

(parallel post here: https://community.opendronemap.org/t/smrf-replacement-for-point-cloud-filtering-in-odm/21993)

[luc2323]

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17538947.2020.1791267#d1e363

Have had good results with the SMRF parameters suggested in this paper. Have not tested the others.

[smathermather]

Very interesting. Anything you can share here?

[lucadelu]

I'm in flavor to add filters.pmf as option, but not to remove smrf.

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