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We study the problem of extracting accurate correspondences for point cloud registration. Recent keypoint-free methods have shown great potential through bypassing the detection of repeatable keypoints which is difficult to do especially in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Zheng Qin , Hao Yu , Changjian Wang , Yulan Guo , Yuxing Peng , Slobodan Ilic , Dewen Hu , Kai Xu

In robotic inspection of aviation parts, achieving accurate pairwise point cloud registration between scanned and model data is essential. However, noise and outliers generated in robotic scanned data can compromise registration accuracy.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Lingjie Su , Wei Xu , Wenlong Li

Point cloud registration aligns multiple unposed point clouds into a common reference frame and is a core step for 3D reconstruction and robot localization without initial guess. In this work, we cast registration as conditional generation:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Yue Pan , Tao Sun , Liyuan Zhu , Lucas Nunes , Iro Armeni , Jens Behley , Cyrill Stachniss

Intensity-based image registration approaches rely on similarity measures to guide the search for geometric correspondences with high affinity between images. The properties of the used measure are vital for the robustness and accuracy of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-22 Johan Öfverstedt , Joakim Lindblad , Nataša Sladoje

As a fundamental yet challenging problem in intelligent transportation systems, point cloud registration attracts vast attention and has been attained with various deep learning-based algorithms. The unsupervised registration algorithms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Dongrui Liu , Chuanchuan Chen , Changqing Xu , Robert Qiu , Lei Chu

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-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

Recently, cross-source point cloud registration from different sensors has become a significant research focus. However, traditional methods confront challenges due to the varying density and structure of cross-source point clouds. In order…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Yu Wang , Shuhui Bu , Lin Chen , Yifei Dong , Kun Li , Xuefeng Cao , Ke Li

Unsupervised point cloud registration algorithm usually suffers from the unsatisfied registration precision in the partially overlapping problem due to the lack of effective inlier evaluation. In this paper, we propose a neighborhood…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-24 Yaqi Shen , Le Hui , Haobo Jiang , Jin Xie , Jian Yang

We propose a systematic approach for registering cross-source point clouds. The compelling need for cross-source point cloud registration is motivated by the rapid development of a variety of 3D sensing techniques, but many existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-07 Xiaoshui Huang , Jian Zhang , Lixin Fan , Qiang Wu , Chun Yuan

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

3D point cloud registration in remote sensing field has been greatly advanced by deep learning based methods, where the rigid transformation is either directly regressed from the two point clouds (correspondences-free approaches) or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Zhiyuan Zhang , Jiadai Sun , Yuchao Dai , Dingfu Zhou , Xibin Song , Mingyi He

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

Probabilistic 3D point cloud registration methods have shown competitive performance in overcoming noise, outliers, and density variations. However, registering point cloud pairs in the case of partial overlap is still a challenge. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Guofeng Mei , Fabio Poiesi , Cristiano Saltori , Jian Zhang , Elisa Ricci , Nicu Sebe

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

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

In feature-learning based point cloud registration, the correct correspondence construction is vital for the subsequent transformation estimation. However, it is still a challenge to extract discriminative features from point cloud,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Lifa Zhu , Haining Guan , Changwei Lin , Renmin 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 cloud registration has seen significant advancements with the application of deep learning techniques. However, existing approaches often overlook the potential of integrating radiometric information from RGB images. This limitation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Zhaoyi Wang , Shengyu Huang , Jemil Avers Butt , Yuanzhou Cai , Matej Varga , Andreas Wieser

Estimating the rigid transformation between two LiDAR scans through putative 3D correspondences is a typical point cloud registration paradigm. Current 3D feature matching approaches commonly lead to numerous outlier correspondences, making…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Xinyi Li , Hu Cao , Yinlong Liu , Xueli Liu , Feihu Zhang , Alois Knoll