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Registration of 3D point clouds is a fundamental task in several applications of robotics and computer vision. While registration methods such as iterative closest point and variants are very popular, they are only locally optimal. There…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-23 Rangaprasad Arun Srivatsan , Tejas Zodage , Howie Choset

Point cloud registration is fundamental in 3D vision applications, including autonomous driving, robotics, and medical imaging, where precise alignment of multiple point clouds is essential for accurate environment reconstruction. However,…

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

Accurate registration of 2D imagery with point clouds is a key technology for image-LiDAR point cloud fusion, camera to laser scanner calibration and camera localization. Despite continuous improvements, automatic registration of 2D and 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-13 Huai Yu , Weikun Zhen , Wen Yang , Sebastian Scherer

Accurate and efficient point cloud registration is a challenge because the noise and a large number of points impact the correspondence search. This challenge is still a remaining research problem since most of the existing methods rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Xiaoshui Huang , Zongyi Xu , Guofeng Mei , Sheng Li , Jian Zhang , Yifan Zuo , Yucheng Wang

We analyze the problem of determining whether 2 given point clouds in 2D, with any distinct cardinality and any number of outliers, have subsets of the same size that can be matched via a rigid motion. This problem is important, for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Jorge Arce Garro , David Jiménez López

Point cloud registration for 3D objects is a challenging task due to sparse and noisy measurements, incomplete observations and large transformations. In this work, we propose \textbf{G}raph \textbf{M}atching \textbf{C}onsensus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Liang Pan , Zhongang Cai , Ziwei Liu

We propose a new framework that formulates point cloud registration as a denoising diffusion process from noisy transformation to object transformation. During training stage, object transformation diffuses from ground-truth transformation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Yue Wu , Yongzhe Yuan , Xiaolong Fan , Xiaoshui Huang , Maoguo Gong , Qiguang Miao

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

Aligning partial views of a scene into a single whole is essential to understanding one's environment and is a key component of numerous robotics tasks such as SLAM and SfM. Recent approaches have proposed end-to-end systems that can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Mohamed El Banani , Luya Gao , Justin Johnson

The precision of unsupervised point cloud registration methods is typically limited by the lack of reliable inlier estimation and self-supervised signal, especially in partially overlapping scenarios. In this paper, we propose an effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Yongzhe Yuan , Yue Wu , Maoguo Gong , Qiguang Miao , A. K. Qin

This work presents a novel method for fitting superquadrics to point clouds under the contamination of noise and outliers, which has many applications for shape modeling across diverse fields. Unlike prior approaches that either exclusively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Mingyang Zhao , Sipu Ruan , Xiaohong Jia

Registration of point clouds related by rigid transformations is one of the fundamental problems in computer vision. However, a solution to the practical scenario of aligning sparsely and differently sampled observations in the presence of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Natalie Lang , Joseph M. Francos

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 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

Point set registration is a key component in many computer vision tasks. The goal of point set registration is to assign correspondences between two sets of points and to recover the transformation that maps one point set to the other.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2010-11-09 Andriy Myronenko , Xubo Song

Three dimensional (3D) object recognition is becoming a key desired capability for many computer vision systems such as autonomous vehicles, service robots and surveillance drones to operate more effectively in unstructured environments.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Chenxi Xiao , Juan Wachs

Point Cloud Registration (PCR) estimates the relative rigid transformation between two point clouds of the same scene. Despite significant progress with learning-based approaches, existing methods still face challenges when the overlapping…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Zhi Chen , Yufan Ren , Tong Zhang , Zheng Dang , Wenbing Tao , Sabine Süsstrunk , Mathieu Salzmann

This paper proposes a correspondence-free method for point cloud rotational registration. We learn an embedding for each point cloud in a feature space that preserves the SO(3)-equivariance property, enabled by recent developments in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Minghan Zhu , Maani Ghaffari , Huei Peng

3D anomaly detection in point-cloud data is critical for industrial quality control, aiming to identify structural defects with high reliability. However, current memory bank-based methods often suffer from inconsistent feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Yuyang Yu , Zhengwei Chen , Xuemiao Xu , Lei Zhang , Haoxin Yang , Yongwei Nie , Shengfeng He

3D point cloud registration is a fundamental task in robotics and computer vision. Recently, many learning-based point cloud registration methods based on correspondences have emerged. However, these methods heavily rely on such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Lifa Zhu , Dongrui Liu , Changwei Lin , Rui Yan , Francisco Gómez-Fernández , Ninghua Yang , Ziyong Feng