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CANUPO differences between GUI/Command Line

Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2022 11:45 pm
by cmackSIO
Hello all,
I'm attempting to classify vegetation on a LiDAR survey of some cliffs using CANUPO - I've trained a classifier that works well but I get much different results when classifying in the GUI vs through command line. Using the GUI, I set my confidence level to 0.8 and I get this:
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This is the result I'm looking for, however, when I use the command line mode with the same classifier and the same .8 confidence threshold, I get this:
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Which is much different and clearly is overclassifying vegetation by a lot. I'm wondering if anyone else has run in to this issue and found a solution. My command line call is:

Start-Process -Wait "C:\Program Files\CloudCompare\CloudCompare.exe" -ArgumentList '-silent', '-clear','-auto_save', 'off', '-c_export_fmt',
'asc','-o','-global_shift', $shift, $c1,'-canupo_classify','-use_confidence', '0.8', $canupo,'-save_clouds','file',$output_string
(where $canupo contains the path to my .prm file)

I'm wondering if maybe the arguments are being passed in the wrong order so my confidence threshold is not being recognized? Though the example in the docs is:
'CloudCompare -O cloud1 ... -O cloudN -CANUPO_CLASSIFY (-USE_CONFIDENCE 0.9) classifier.prm'
so that would seem to be the right order. I'm not using any scalar field in either classification though I could add intensity to the command line call and see if that helps - regardless I'm not sure why the behavior of the two would be so different. Any thoughts would be appreciated, thanks!

Re: CANUPO differences between GUI/Command Line

Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2022 8:21 am
by daniel
If the parameter is properly read, you should see in the (command line) console:

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Confidence threshold set to XX
I wonder if another issue might be with the Global Shift? Can you try with the 'AUTO' option?

Re: CANUPO differences between GUI/Command Line

Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2022 10:15 pm
by cmackSIO
I do see the console registering the confidence level so that's not the problem. I'm now able to get much more similar results but they're still slightly different. In command line mode I get this:
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While in the GUI I get this:
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Both are .8 confidence with the same classifier - the command line results are good enough now that I can use them but I just want to understand why they're different - is there anything else I might be missing? Thanks for your help

Re: CANUPO differences between GUI/Command Line

Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2022 1:41 pm
by daniel
Hard to tell... What about the Global Shift, is it the same? Or maybe it's just a display thing?