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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

We present a novel differential matching algorithm for 3D point cloud registration. Instead of only optimizing the feature extractor for a matching algorithm, we propose a learning-based matching module optimized to the jointly-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Rintaro Yanagi , Atsushi Hashimoto , Shusaku Sone , Naoya Chiba , Jiaxin Ma , Yoshitaka Ushiku

In this paper, we present a second order spatial compatibility (SC^2) measure based method for efficient and robust point cloud registration (PCR), called SC^2-PCR. Firstly, we propose a second order spatial compatibility (SC^2) measure to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Zhi Chen , Kun Sun , Fan Yang , Wenbing Tao

4D millimeter wave radars (4D radars) are new emerging sensors that provide point clouds of objects with both position and radial velocity measurements. Compared to LiDARs, they are more affordable and reliable sensors for robots'…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Xingyi Li , Han Zhang , Ziliang Wang , Yukai Yang , Weidong Chen

Learning to generate 3D point clouds without 3D supervision is an important but challenging problem. Current solutions leverage various differentiable renderers to project the generated 3D point clouds onto a 2D image plane, and train deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Chen Chao , Zhizhong Han , Yu-Shen Liu , Matthias Zwicker

Storing and transmitting LiDAR point cloud data is essential for many AV applications, such as training data collection, remote control, cloud services or SLAM. However, due to the sparsity and unordered structure of the data, it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Till Beemelmanns , Yuchen Tao , Bastian Lampe , Lennart Reiher , Raphael van Kempen , Timo Woopen , Lutz Eckstein

Multiview point cloud registration serves as a cornerstone of various computer vision tasks. Previous approaches typically adhere to a global paradigm, where a pose graph is initially constructed followed by motion synchronization to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Shiqi Li , Jihua Zhu , Yifan Xie , Mingchen Zhu

LiDAR point clouds provide rich geometric information, which is particularly useful for the analysis of complex scenes of urban regions. Finding structural and semantic differences between two different three-dimensional point clouds, say,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Jaya Sreevalsan-Nair , Pragyan Mohapatra

Point clouds captured by scanning sensors are often perturbed by noise, which have a highly negative impact on downstream tasks (e.g. surface reconstruction and shape understanding). Previous works mostly focus on training neural networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Junsheng Zhou , Xingyu Shi , Haichuan Song , Yi Fang , Yu-Shen Liu , Zhizhong Han

Geometric constraints between feature matches are critical in 3D point cloud registration problems. Existing approaches typically model unordered matches as a consistency graph and sample consistent matches to generate hypotheses. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Xiyu Zhang , Jiayi Ma , Jianwei Guo , Wei Hu , Zhaoshuai Qi , Fei Hui , Jiaqi Yang , Yanning Zhang

Point sets matching method is very important in computer vision, feature extraction, fingerprint matching, motion estimation and so on. This paper proposes a robust point sets matching method. We present an iterative algorithm that is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-11-05 Xiao Liu , Congying Han , Tiande Guo

Point cloud registration is a crucial technique in 3D computer vision with a wide range of applications. However, this task can be challenging, particularly in large fields of view with dynamic objects, environmental noise, or other…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Rui She , Sijie Wang , Qiyu Kang , Kai Zhao , Yang Song , Wee Peng Tay , Tianyu Geng , Xingchao Jian

In this paper, we propose the 3DFeat-Net which learns both 3D feature detector and descriptor for point cloud matching using weak supervision. Unlike many existing works, we do not require manual annotation of matching point clusters.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Zi Jian Yew , Gim Hee Lee

Due to the density inconsistency and distribution difference between cross-source point clouds, previous methods fail in cross-source point cloud registration. We propose a density-robust feature extraction and matching scheme to achieve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Guiyu Zhao , Zhentao Guo , Zewen Du , Hongbin Ma

We use a deep neural network to detect and place region-of-interest boxes around ultracold atom clouds in absorption and fluorescence images---with the ability to identify and bound multiple clouds within a single image. The neural network…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-08-03 Lucas R. Hofer , Milan Krstajić , Péter Juhász , Anna L. Marchant , Robert P. Smith

We introduce Deep Set Linearized Optimal Transport, an algorithm designed for the efficient simultaneous embedding of point clouds into an $L^2-$space. This embedding preserves specific low-dimensional structures within the Wasserstein…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Scott Mahan , Caroline Moosmüller , Alexander Cloninger

End-to-end trained per-point embeddings are an essential ingredient of any state-of-the-art 3D point cloud processing such as detection or alignment. Methods like PointNet, or the more recent point cloud transformer -- and its variants --…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Jianqiao Zheng , Xueqian Li , Sameera Ramasinghe , Simon Lucey

Subspace clustering is the problem of clustering data points into a union of low-dimensional linear/affine subspaces. It is the mathematical abstraction of many important problems in computer vision, image processing and machine learning. A…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-04-12 Yining Wang , Yu-Xiang Wang , Aarti Singh

Diffusion models are a powerful framework for tackling ill-posed problems, with recent advancements extending their use to point cloud upsampling. Despite their potential, existing diffusion models struggle with inefficiencies as they map…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Zhi-Song Liu , Chenhang He , Lei Li

This study presents a high-accuracy, efficient, and physically induced method for 3D point cloud registration, which is the core of many important 3D vision problems. In contrast to existing physics-based methods that merely consider…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Zhao Mingyang , Ma Lei , Jia Xiaohong , Yan Dong-Ming , Huang Tiejun