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Point cloud registration (PCR) is a fundamental task for integrating 3D observations in remote sensing applications. This paper proposes a fast and effective PCR algorithm utilizing probabilistic self-updating local correspondence and line…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Kuo-Liang Chung , Yu-Cheng Lin , Wu-Chi Chen

This paper proposes a novel point-cloud-based place recognition system that adopts a deep learning approach for feature extraction. By using a convolutional neural network pre-trained on color images to extract features from a range image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-24 Ting Sun , Ming Liu , Haoyang Ye , Dit-Yan Yeung

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

Recent Transformer-based methods have achieved advanced performance in point cloud registration by utilizing advantages of the Transformer in order-invariance and modeling dependency to aggregate information. However, they still suffer from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Guangyan Chen , Meiling Wang , Yufeng Yue , Qingxiang Zhang , Li Yuan

Place recognition, an algorithm to recognize the re-visited places, plays the role of back-end optimization trigger in a full SLAM system. Many works equipped with deep learning tools, such as MLP, CNN, and transformer, have achieved great…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Zhixing Hou , Yuzhang Shang , Tian Gao , Yan Yan

Image-to-point cloud registration aims to determine the relative camera pose of an RGB image with respect to a point cloud. It plays an important role in camera localization within pre-built LiDAR maps. Despite the modality gaps, most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Gongxin Yao , Yixin Xuan , Xinyang Li , Yu Pan

Point cloud registration involves determining a rigid transformation to align a source point cloud with a target point cloud. This alignment is fundamental in applications such as autonomous driving, robotics, and medical imaging, where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Yu-Xin Zhang , Jie Gui , Baosheng Yu , Xiaofeng Cong , Xin Gong , Wenbing Tao , Dacheng Tao

Generating a set of high-quality correspondences or matches is one of the most critical steps in point cloud registration. This paper proposes a learning framework COTReg by jointly considering the pointwise and structural matchings to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Guofeng Mei , Xiaoshui Huang , Litao Yu , Jian Zhang , Mohammed Bennamoun

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

Point-cloud data acquired using a terrestrial laser scanner (TLS) play an important role in digital forestry research. Multiple scans are generally used to overcome occlusion effects and obtain complete tree structural information. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-31 Xiuxian Xu , Pei Wang , Xiaozheng Gan , Yaxin Li , Li Zhang , Qing Zhang , Mei Zhou , Yinghui Zhao , Xinwei Li

We propose a method for detecting structural changes in a city using images captured from vehicular mounted cameras over traversals at two different times. We first generate 3D point clouds for each traversal from the images and approximate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Zi Jian Yew , Gim Hee Lee

Point cloud registration aims to provide estimated transformations to align point clouds, which plays a crucial role in pose estimation of various navigation systems, such as surgical guidance systems and autonomous vehicles. Despite the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Geng Li , Haozhi Cao , Mingyang Liu , Shenghai Yuan , Jianfei Yang

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

Distribution-to-distribution (D2D) point cloud registration techniques such as the Normal Distributions Transform (NDT) can align point clouds sampled from unstructured scenes and provide accurate bounds of their own solution error…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Matthew McDermott , Jason Rife

Point set registration is defined as a process to determine the spatial transformation from the source point set to the target one. Existing methods often iteratively search for the optimal geometric transformation to register a given pair…

Graphics · Computer Science 2019-04-03 Lingjing Wang , Jianchun Chen , Xiang Li , Yi Fang

LiDAR registration is a fundamental task in robotic mapping and localization. A critical component of aligning two point clouds is identifying robust point correspondences using point descriptors. This step becomes particularly challenging…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Niclas Vödisch , Giovanni Cioffi , Marco Cannici , Wolfram Burgard , Davide Scaramuzza

In this work, we tackle the task of estimating the 6D pose of an object from point cloud data. While recent learning-based approaches to addressing this task have shown great success on synthetic datasets, we have observed them to fail in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Zheng Dang , Lizhou Wang , Yu Guo , Mathieu Salzmann

Change detection and irregular object extraction in 3D point clouds is a challenging task that is of high importance not only for autonomous navigation but also for updating existing digital twin models of various industrial environments.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Nikolaos Stathoulopoulos , Anton Koval , George Nikolakopoulos

We study the problem of extracting accurate correspondences for point cloud registration. Recent keypoint-free methods bypass the detection of repeatable keypoints which is difficult in low-overlap scenarios, showing great potential in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Zheng Qin , Hao Yu , Changjian Wang , Yulan Guo , Yuxing Peng , Kai Xu

Nonrigid point set registration is widely applied in the tasks of computer vision and pattern recognition. Coherent point drift (CPD) is a classical method for nonrigid point set registration. However, to solve spatial transformation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-12 Xiang-Wei Feng , Da-Zheng Feng , Yun Zhu