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PointNet has recently emerged as a popular representation for unstructured point cloud data, allowing application of deep learning to tasks such as object detection, segmentation and shape completion. However, recent works in literature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-13 Vinit Sarode , Xueqian Li , Hunter Goforth , Yasuhiro Aoki , Animesh Dhagat , Rangaprasad Arun Srivatsan , Simon Lucey , Howie Choset

High-resolution 3D point clouds are highly effective for detecting subtle structural anomalies in industrial inspection. However, their dense and irregular nature imposes significant challenges, including high computational cost,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Zi Wang , Katsuya Hotta , Koichiro Kamide , Yawen Zou , Chao Zhang , Jun Yu

Point cloud registration is a classical topic in the field of 3D Vision and Computer Graphics. Generally, the implementation of registration is typically sensitive to similarity transformations (translation, scaling, and rotation), noisy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Chenlei Lv , Hui Huang

For the registration of partially overlapping point clouds, this paper proposes an effective approach based on both the hard and soft assignments. Given two initially posed clouds, it firstly establishes the forward correspondence for each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-02 Congcong Jin , Jihua Zhu , Yaochen Li , Shaoyi Du , Zhongyu Li , Huimin Lu

Accurate and efficient point cloud registration is a challenge because the noise and a large number of points impact the correspondence search. This challenge is still a remaining research problem since most of the existing methods rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Xiaoshui Huang , Zongyi Xu , Guofeng Mei , Sheng Li , Jian Zhang , Yifan Zuo , Yucheng Wang

3D Point cloud registration is still a very challenging topic due to the difficulty in finding the rigid transformation between two point clouds with partial correspondences, and it's even harder in the absence of any initial estimation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Zhijian Qiao , Huanshu Wei , Zhe Liu , Chuanzhe Suo , Hesheng Wang

Accurate registration of 2D imagery with point clouds is a key technology for image-LiDAR point cloud fusion, camera to laser scanner calibration and camera localization. Despite continuous improvements, automatic registration of 2D and 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-13 Huai Yu , Weikun Zhen , Wen Yang , Sebastian Scherer

Point cloud registration is a fundamental problem in computer vision and robotics, involving the alignment of 3D point sets captured from varying viewpoints using depth sensors such as LiDAR or structured light. In modern robotic systems,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Ashutosh Singandhupe , Sanket Lokhande , Hung Manh La

Using heterogeneous depth cameras and 3D scanners in 3D face verification causes variations in the resolution of the 3D point clouds. To solve this issue, previous studies use 3D registration techniques. Out of these proposed techniques,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Ahmed ElSayed , Elif Kongar , Ausif Mahmood , Tarek Sobh , Terrance Boult

Rigid registration of point clouds is a fundamental problem in computer vision with many applications from 3D scene reconstruction to geometry capture and robotics. If a suitable initial registration is available, conventional methods like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Ludwig Mohr , Ismail Geles , Friedrich Fraundorfer

Point clouds have become an increasingly important representation for 3D medical imaging, offering a compact, surface-preserving alternative to traditional voxel or mesh-based approaches. Recent advances in deep learning have enabled rapid…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-04 Tongxu Zhang , Zhiming Liang , Bei Wang

Most existing 3D geometry copy detection research focused on 3D watermarking, which first embeds ``watermarks'' and then detects the added watermarks. However, this kind of methods is non-straightforward and may be less robust to attacks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Jiaqi Yang , Xuequan Lu , Wenzhi Chen

How to extract significant point cloud features and estimate the pose between them remains a challenging question, due to the inherent lack of structure and ambiguous order permutation of point clouds. Despite significant improvements in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Zhu Xu , Zhengyao Bai , Huijie Liu , Qianjie Lu , Shenglan Fan

Point cloud registration is a fundamental task in 3D vision. Most existing methods only use geometric information for registration. Recently proposed RGB-D registration methods primarily focus on feature fusion or improving feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Congjia Chen , Shen Yan , Yufu Qu

3D motion estimation including scene flow and point cloud registration has drawn increasing interest. Inspired by 2D flow estimation, recent methods employ deep neural networks to construct the cost volume for estimating accurate 3D flow.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Xiaodong Gu , Chengzhou Tang , Weihao Yuan , Zuozhuo Dai , Siyu Zhu , Ping Tan

3D anomaly detection in point-cloud data is critical for industrial quality control, aiming to identify structural defects with high reliability. However, current memory bank-based methods often suffer from inconsistent feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Yuyang Yu , Zhengwei Chen , Xuemiao Xu , Lei Zhang , Haoxin Yang , Yongwei Nie , Shengfeng He

In recent years, point cloud representation has become one of the research hotspots in the field of computer vision, and has been widely used in many fields, such as autonomous driving, virtual reality, robotics, etc. Although deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Huang Zhang , Changshuo Wang , Shengwei Tian , Baoli Lu , Liping Zhang , Xin Ning , Xiao Bai

Point cloud registration is a fundamental problem in 3D scanning. In this paper, we address the frequent special case of registering terrestrial LiDAR scans (or, more generally, levelled point clouds). Many current solutions still rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-03 Zhipeng Cai , Tat-Jun Chin , Alvaro Parra Bustos , Konrad Schindler

We analyze the problem of determining whether 2 given point clouds in 2D, with any distinct cardinality and any number of outliers, have subsets of the same size that can be matched via a rigid motion. This problem is important, for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Jorge Arce Garro , David Jiménez López

As 3D point cloud analysis has received increasing attention, the insufficient scale of point cloud datasets and the weak generalization ability of networks become prominent. In this paper, we propose a simple and effective augmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Jinlai Zhang , Lyujie Chen , Bo Ouyang , Binbin Liu , Jihong Zhu , Yujing Chen , Yanmei Meng , Danfeng Wu