Accurate and complete rail extraction from mobile laser scanning (MLS) data is currently a fundamental and challenging problem for its application on the railway. By using the track knowledge, a signed cylindrical neighborhood difference is defined as the rail descriptor and then proposed a new rail extraction algorithm from MLS data. It can extract accurate, continuous, and complete railhead, which is most critical for the rail geometric parameter and centerline, of the entire railway. Moreover, it can successfully extract the railhead of the main-line, including the curve section with different superelevation, and turnout. A 3-km long trunk railway, including main-line and turnout, straight line and curve line, located in the southwest of China is selected to test the performance of the proposed rail extraction algorithm. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm can correctly extract the railhead of the whole railway, with an overall accuracy (F-measure) of 88.73%. Its accuracy is improved by 42.68% compared with the rail extraction algorithm based on spherical neighborhood difference.
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