The accuracy evaluation of point cloud data generated with iPhone 15 Pro Next Gen LiDAR sensor

Abstract

Low-cost LiDAR sensors have recently become preferred in many fields by architects, geomatics engineers, industrial design, virtual reality applications, and many other disciplines for rapid 3D model generation. Recently, 3D models created with LiDAR sensors of smartphones (iPhone and iPad LiDAR sensors) have become preferred in many areas for 3D model production. This study discusses the accuracy evaluation of point cloud data automatically generated by the iPhone 15 Pro LiDAR sensor. Therefore, a point cloud was created for the same object with the iPhone 15 Pro LiDAR Sensor, and SiteSCAPE and Scaniverse mobile applications were tested. Our results show that the performance of the iPhone 15 Pro LiDAR Sensor is affected by mobile software technical capabilities. In addition, the results generally concluded that the iPhone 15 Pro LiDAR sensor can be used in many geomatics applications for point cloud generation, but it can be used as auxiliary data for survey studies due to its shortcomings.