Terrestrial Laser scanner (TLS) has been widely used in our recent architectural heritage projects and huge quantity of point cloud data was gotten. In order to process the huge quantity of point cloud data effectively and reconstruct their 3D models, more effective methods should be developed based on existing automatic or semiautomatic point cloud processing algorithms. Here introduce a new algorithm for rapid extracting the pillar features of Chinese ancient buildings from their point cloud data, the algorithm has the least human interaction in the data processing and is more efficient to extract pillars from point cloud data than existing feature extracting algorithms. With this algorithm we identify the pillar features by dividing the point cloud into slices firstly, and then get the projective parameters of pillar objects in selected slices, the next compare the local projective parameters in adjacent slices, the next combine them to get the global parameters of the pillars and at last reconstruct the 3d pillar models.
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