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Patch-to-point matching has become a robust way of point cloud registration. However, previous patch-matching methods employ superpoints with poor localization precision as nodes, which may lead to ambiguous patch partitions. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Yiheng Li , Canhui Tang , Runzhao Yao , Aixue Ye , Feng Wen , Shaoyi Du

In this paper, we introduce PCR-CG: a novel 3D point cloud registration module explicitly embedding the color signals into the geometry representation. Different from previous methods that only use geometry representation, our module is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Yu Zhang , Junle Yu , Xiaolin Huang , Wenhui Zhou , Ji Hou

An unsupervised, iterative point-set registration algorithm for an unlabeled (i.e. correspondence between points is unknown) N-dimensional Euclidean point-cloud is proposed. It is based on linear least squares, and considers all possible…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-14 A. Pasha Hosseinbor , R. Zhdanov , A. Ushveridze

In this paper, we derive a probabilistic registration algorithm for object modeling and tracking. In many robotics applications, such as manipulation tasks, nonvisual information about the movement of the object is available, which we will…

Robotics · Computer Science 2015-05-04 Manuel Wüthrich , Peter Pastor , Ludovic Righetti , Aude Billard , Stefan Schaal

Point cloud registration sits at the core of many important and challenging 3D perception problems including autonomous navigation, SLAM, object/scene recognition, and augmented reality. In this paper, we present a new registration…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Ben Eckart , Kihwan Kim , Jan Kautz

The primary requirement for cross-modal data fusion is the precise alignment of data from different sensors. However, the calibration between LiDAR point clouds and camera images is typically time-consuming and needs external calibration…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Yuanchao Yue , Hui Yuan , Zhengxin Li , Shuai Li , Wei Zhang

Point clouds are widely used representations of 3D data, but determining the visibility of points from a given viewpoint remains a challenging problem due to their sparse nature and lack of explicit connectivity. Traditional methods, such…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Jun-Hao Wang , Yi-Yang Tian , Baoquan Chen , Peng-Shuai Wang

Registering an object shape to a sequence of point clouds undergoing non-rigid deformation is a long-standing challenge. The key difficulties stem from two factors: (i) the presence of local minima due to the non-convexity of registration…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Guangzhao He , Yuxi Xiao , Zhen Xu , Xiaowei Zhou , Sida Peng

This work addresses the problem of point cloud registration using deep neural networks. We propose an approach to predict the alignment between two point clouds with overlapping data content, but displaced origins. Such point clouds…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Markus Horn , Nico Engel , Vasileios Belagiannis , Michael Buchholz , Klaus Dietmayer

Point cloud registration aligns 3D point clouds using spatial transformations. It is an important task in computer vision, with applications in areas such as augmented reality (AR) and medical imaging. This work explores the intersection of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Maximilian Weber , Daniel Wild , Jens Kleesiek , Jan Egger , Christina Gsaxner

Due to their complex spatial structure and diverse geometric features, achieving high-precision and robust point cloud registration for complex Die Castings has been a significant challenge in the die-casting industry. Existing point cloud…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Yu Du , Yu Song , Ce Guo , Xiaojing Tian , Dong Liu , Ming Cong

Point cloud registration is an important task in robotics and autonomous driving to estimate the ego-motion of the vehicle. Recent advances following the coarse-to-fine manner show promising potential in point cloud registration. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Chenghao Shi , Xieyuanli Chen , Huimin Lu , Wenbang Deng , Junhao Xiao , Bin Dai

Non-rigid 3D registration, which deforms a source 3D shape in a non-rigid way to align with a target 3D shape, is a classical problem in computer vision. Such problems can be challenging because of imperfect data (noise, outliers and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Yuxin Yao , Bailin Deng , Weiwei Xu , Juyong Zhang

We present a novel approach to point set registration which is based on one-shot adversarial learning. The idea of the algorithm is inspired by recent successes of generative adversarial networks. Treating the point clouds as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Sergei Divakov , Ivan Oseledets

Point cloud registration methods can effectively handle large-scale, partially overlapping point cloud pairs. Despite its practicality, matching the unbalanced pairs in terms of spatial extent and density has been overlooked and rarely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Kanghee Lee , Junha Lee , Jaesik Park

Point cloud rigid registration is a fundamental problem in 3D computer vision. In the multiview case, we aim to find a set of 6D poses to align a set of objects. Methods based on pairwise registration rely on a subsequent synchronization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Luc Vedrenne , Sylvain Faisan , Denis Fortun

With the increased availability of 3D scanning technology, point clouds are moving into the focus of computer vision as a rich representation of everyday scenes. However, they are hard to handle for machine learning algorithms due to their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Sergey Prokudin , Christoph Lassner , Javier Romero

Unsupervised registration strategies bypass requirements in ground truth transforms or segmentations by optimising similarity metrics between fixed and moved volumes. Among these methods, a recent subclass of approaches based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Benjamin Billot , Ramya Muthukrishnan , Esra Abaci-Turk , P. Ellen Grant , Nicholas Ayache , Hervé Delingette , Polina Golland

Registration is the process that computes the transformation that aligns sets of data. Commonly, a registration process can be divided into four main steps: target selection, feature extraction, feature matching, and transform computation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Victor Villena-Martinez , Sergiu Oprea , Marcelo Saval-Calvo , Jorge Azorin-Lopez , Andres Fuster-Guillo , Robert B. Fisher

Non-rigid point cloud registration is a critical challenge in 3D scene understanding, particularly in surgical navigation. Although existing methods achieve excellent performance when trained on large-scale, high-quality datasets, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Geng Li , Haozhi Cao , Mingyang Liu , Chenxi Jiang , Jianfei Yang