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Point cloud is a collection of 3D coordinates that are discrete geometric samples of an object's 2D surfaces. Using a low-cost 3D scanner to acquire data means that point clouds are often in lower resolution than desired for rendering on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-20 Chinthaka Dinesh , Gene Cheung , Ivan V. Bajic

We introduce a novel framework for multiway point cloud mosaicking (named Wednesday), designed to co-align sets of partially overlapping point clouds -- typically obtained from 3D scanners or moving RGB-D cameras -- into a unified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Shengze Jin , Iro Armeni , Marc Pollefeys , Daniel Barath

Partial point cloud registration is essential for autonomous perception and 3D scene understanding, yet it remains challenging owing to structural ambiguity, partial visibility, and noise. We address these issues by proposing Confidence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Yongqiang Wang , Weigang Li , Wenping Liu , Zhe Xu , Zhiqiang Tian

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

Point Cloud Registration is a fundamental and challenging problem in 3D computer vision. Recent works often utilize the geometric structure information in point feature embedding or outlier rejection for registration while neglecting to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Qianliang Wu , Yaqi Shen , Haobo Jiang , Guofeng Mei , Yaqing Ding , Lei Luo , Jin Xie , Jian Yang

Point cloud registration is a fundamental problem in computer vision that aims to estimate the transformation between corresponding sets of points. Non-rigid registration, in particular, involves addressing challenges including various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Sara Monji-Azad , Marvin Kinz , Jürgen Hesser

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

Point clouds have been recognized as a crucial data structure for 3D content and are essential in a number of applications such as virtual and mixed reality, autonomous driving, cultural heritage, etc. In this paper, we propose a set of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Maurice Quach , Giuseppe Valenzise , Frederic Dufaux

This work presents a new recursive robust filtering approach for feature-based 3D registration. Unlike the common state-of-the-art alignment algorithms, the proposed method has four advantages that have not yet occurred altogether in any…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Abdenour Amamra , Nabil Aouf , Dowling Stuart , Mark Richardson

Image-to-point-cloud (I2P) registration aims to align 2D images with 3D point clouds by establishing reliable 2D-3D correspondences. The drastic modality gap between images and point clouds makes it challenging to learn features that are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Pei An , Junfeng Ding , Jiaqi Yang , Yulong Wang , Jie Ma , Liangliang Nan

This article proposes a new path planning method for addressing multi-level terrain situations. The proposed method includes innovations in three aspects: 1) the pre-processing of point cloud maps with a multi-level skip-list structure and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Yujie Tang , Quan Li , Hao Geng , Yangmin Xie , Hang Shi , Yusheng Yang

Image-to-point cloud registration methods typically follow a coarse-to-fine pipeline, extracting patch-level correspondences and refining them into dense pixel-to-point matches. However, in scenes with repetitive patterns, images often lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Zhixin Cheng , Jiacheng Deng , Xinjun Li , Bohao Liao , Li Liu , Xiaotian Yin , Baoqun Yin , Tianzhu Zhang

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 cloud registration is a task to estimate the rigid transformation between two unaligned scans, which plays an important role in many computer vision applications. Previous learning-based works commonly focus on supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Mingzhi Yuan , Kexue Fu , Zhihao Li , Yucong Meng , Manning Wang

A 3D point cloud is often synthesized from depth measurements collected by sensors at different viewpoints. The acquired measurements are typically both coarse in precision and corrupted by noise. To improve quality, previous works denoise…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-12 Xue Zhang , Gene Cheung , Jiahao Pang , Dong Tian

While global point cloud registration systems have advanced significantly in all aspects, many studies have focused on specific components, such as feature extraction, graph-theoretic pruning, or pose solvers. In this paper, we take a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Hyungtae Lim , Daebeom Kim , Gunhee Shin , Jingnan Shi , Ignacio Vizzo , Hyun Myung , Jaesik Park , Luca Carlone

Point cloud registration plays a crucial role in various computer vision tasks, and usually demands the resolution of partial overlap registration in practice. Most existing methods perform a serial calculation of rotation and translation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Shiqi Li , Jihua Zhu , Yifan Xie

Multiview point cloud registration plays a crucial role in robotics, automation, and computer vision fields. This paper concentrates on pose graph construction and motion synchronization within multiview registration. Previous methods for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Shiqi Li , Jihua Zhu , Yifan Xie , Naiwen Hu , Di Wang

Manual annotation of large-scale point cloud dataset for varying tasks such as 3D object classification, segmentation and detection is often laborious owing to the irregular structure of point clouds. Self-supervised learning, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Mohamed Afham , Isuru Dissanayake , Dinithi Dissanayake , Amaya Dharmasiri , Kanchana Thilakarathna , Ranga Rodrigo

Motivation: Assessing the match between two biomolecular structures is at the heart of structural analyses such as superposition, alignment and docking. These tasks are typically solved with specialized structure-matching techniques…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-01-23 Michael Habeck , Andreas Kröpelin , Nima Vakili