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Robust point cloud registration in real-time is an important prerequisite for many mapping and localization algorithms. Traditional methods like ICP tend to fail without good initialization, insufficient overlap or in the presence of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-22 Kai Fischer , Martin Simon , Florian Oelsner , Stefan Milz , Horst-Michael Gross , Patrick Maeder

This paper presents a robust probabilistic point registration method for estimating the rigid transformation (i.e. rotation matrix and translation vector) between two pointcloud dataset. The method improves the robustness of point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-12 Saman Fahandezh-Saadi , Di Wang , Masayoshi Tomizuka

Point-pixel registration between LiDAR point clouds and camera images is a fundamental yet challenging task in autonomous driving and robotic perception. A key difficulty lies in the modality gap between unstructured point clouds and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Yu Han , Zhiwei Huang , Yanting Zhang , Fangjun Ding , Shen Cai , Rui Fan

Three-dimensional (3D) fingerprints preserve global finger geometry and local ridge structure while avoiding contact-induced deformation, but they remain difficult to integrate with legacy two-dimensional (2D) fingerprint systems. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Xiongjun Guan , Jianjiang Feng , Jie Zhou

Due to the difficulty in generating the effective descriptors which are robust to occlusion and viewpoint changes, place recognition for 3D point cloud remains an open issue. Unlike most of the existing methods that focus on extracting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-27 Xin Kong , Xuemeng Yang , Guangyao Zhai , Xiangrui Zhao , Xianfang Zeng , Mengmeng Wang , Yong Liu , Wanlong Li , Feng Wen

Registration of 3D LiDAR point clouds with optical images is critical in the combination of multi-source data. Geometric misalignment originally exists in the pose data between LiDAR point clouds and optical images. To improve the accuracy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Hao Ma , Jingbin Liu , Keke Liu , Hongyu Qiu , Dong Xu , Zemin Wang , Xiaodong Gong , Sheng Yang

The recent multi-modality models have achieved great performance in many vision tasks because the extracted features contain the multi-modality knowledge. However, most of the current registration descriptors have only concentrated on local…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Mingzhi Yuan , Xiaoshui Huang , Kexue Fu , Zhihao Li , Manning Wang

We address the challenge of point cloud registration using color information, where traditional methods relying solely on geometric features often struggle in low-overlap and incomplete scenarios. To overcome these limitations, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Jiayi Tian , Haiduo Huang , Tian Xia , Wenzhe Zhao , Pengju Ren

Robotic manipulation systems benefit from complementary sensing modalities, where each provides unique environmental information. Point clouds capture detailed geometric structure, while RGB images provide rich semantic context. Current…

Modern sensing technologies have enabled the collection of unstructured point cloud data (PCD) of varying sizes, which are used to monitor the geometric accuracy of 3D objects. PCD are widely applied in advanced manufacturing processes,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Mariafrancesca Patalano , Giovanna Capizzi , Kamran Paynabar

Scene-level point cloud registration is very challenging when considering dynamic foregrounds. Existing indoor datasets mostly assume rigid motions, so the trained models cannot robustly handle scenes with non-rigid motions. On the other…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Keyu Du , Hao Xu , Haipeng Li , Hong Qu , Chi-Wing Fu , Shuaicheng Liu

Global point cloud registration is essential in many robotics tasks like loop closing and relocalization. Unfortunately, the registration often suffers from the low overlap between point clouds, a frequent occurrence in practical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Zhijian Qiao , Zehuan Yu , Huan Yin , Shaojie Shen

Robust point cloud registration is a fundamental task in 3D computer vision and geometric deep learning, essential for applications such as large-scale 3D reconstruction, augmented reality, and scene understanding. However, the performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Dongxu Zhang , Yingsen Wang , Yiding Sun , Haoran Xu , Peilin Fan , Jihua Zhu

The formwork system belonging to the temporary structure plays an important role in the smooth progress and successful completion of a construction project. Ensuring that the formwork system is installed as designed is essential for…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Keyi Wu , Samuel A. Prieto , Eyob Mengiste , Borja García de Soto

Point cloud registration is a critical problem in computer vision and robotics, especially in the field of navigation. Current methods often fail when faced with high outlier rates or take a long time to converge to a suitable solution. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Michael Adlerstein , João Carlos Virgolino Soares , Angelo Bratta , Claudio Semini

The motivation of this paper is to address the problem of registering airborne LiDAR data and optical aerial or satellite imagery acquired from different platforms, at different times, with different points of view and levels of detail. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Thanh Huy Nguyen , Sylvie Daniel , Didier Gueriot , Christophe Sintes , Jean-Marc Le Caillec

In recent years, terrestrial laser scanning technology has been widely used to collect tree point cloud data, aiding in measurements of diameter at breast height, biomass, and other forestry survey data. Since a single scan from terrestrial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Jing Ren , Pei Wang , Hanlong Li , Yuhan Wu , Yuhang Gao , Wenxin Chen , Mingtai Zhang , Lingyun Zhang

Multi-view point cloud registration is a hot topic in the communities of multimedia technology and artificial intelligence (AI). In this paper, we propose a framework to reconstruct the 3D models by the multi-view point cloud registration…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Yaochen Li , Ying Liu , Rui Sun , Rui Guo , Li Zhu , Yong Qi

Accurate tree detection is of growing importance in applications such as urban planning, forest inventory, and environmental monitoring. In this article, we present an approach to creating tree maps by annotating them in 3D point clouds.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Michael Kölle , Volker Walter , Ivan Shiller , Uwe Soergel

Cross-modality point cloud registration is confronted with significant challenges due to inherent differences in modalities between different sensors. We propose a cross-modality point cloud registration framework FF-LOGO: a cross-modality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Nan Ma , Mohan Wang , Yiheng Han , Yong-Jin Liu