“…Vosselman et al (2004) and Sun and Salvaggio (2013) proposed region growing for the segmentation of LIDAR point clouds. Furthermore, interesting and efficient studies have been implemented that segment building roofs (Lafarge et al, 2010;Sampath and Shan, 2010;Kada and Wichmann, 2012;Awrangjeb and Fraser, 2013;Verdie et al, 2015) and man-made scenes (Lafarge and Alliez, 2013;Monszpart et al, 2015). Also, sophisticated techniques have been applied that accurately assign every LIDAR point to its best plane in one global optimization eliminating simultaneously the use of many thresholds (Wang et al, 2012;Lin et al, 2013;Pham et al, 2014;Yan et al, 2014;Golbert et al, 2014).…”