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Probabilistic methods for point set registration have demonstrated competitive results in recent years. These techniques estimate a probability distribution model of the point clouds. While such a representation has shown promise, it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-24 Felix Järemo Lawin , Martin Danelljan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Per-Erik Forssén , Michael Felsberg

Achieving globally optimal point cloud registration under partial overlaps and large misalignments remains a fundamental challenge. While simultaneous transformation ($\boldsymbol{\theta}$) and correspondence ($\mathbf{P}$) estimation has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Wei Lian , Fei Ma , Hang Pan , Zhesen Cui , Wangmeng Zuo

Rigid Point Cloud Registration (PCR) algorithms aim to estimate the 6-DOF relative motion between two point clouds, which is important in various fields, including autonomous driving. Recent years have seen a significant improvement in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Amnon Drory , Shai Avidan , Raja Giryes

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

Point cloud stands as the most widely adopted format for representing 3D shapes and scenes due to its simplicity and geometric fidelity. However, its inherent unordered and irregular nature, exacerbated by sensor noise and occlusions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Minhas Kamal , Hiranya Garbha Kumar , Balakrishnan Prabhakaran

Point cloud rigid registration is a fundamental problem in 3D computer vision. In the multiview case, we aim to find a set of 6D poses to align a set of objects. Methods based on pairwise registration rely on a subsequent synchronization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Luc Vedrenne , Sylvain Faisan , Denis Fortun

Multi-view point cloud registration is fundamental in 3D reconstruction. Since there are close connections between point clouds captured from different viewpoints, registration performance can be enhanced if these connections be harnessed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Yue Wu , Yibo Liu , Maoguo Gong , Peiran Gong , Hao Li , Zedong Tang , Qiguang Miao , Wenping Ma

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

Point cloud registration has been one of the basic steps of point cloud processing, which has a lot of applications in remote sensing and robotics. In this report, we summarized the basic workflow of target-less point cloud…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Yue Pan

In robotic inspection, joint registration of multiple point clouds is an essential technique for estimating the transformation relationships between measured parts, such as multiple blades in a propeller. However, the presence of noise and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Lingjie Su , Wei Xu , Shuyang Zhao , Yuqi Cheng , Wenlong Li

The goal of this paper is to address the problem of global point cloud registration (PCR) i.e., finding the optimal alignment between point clouds irrespective of the initial poses of the scans. This problem is notoriously challenging for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Stefanos Pertigkiozoglou , Evangelos Chatzipantazis , Kostas Daniilidis

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

Rigid registration of partial observations is a fundamental problem in various applied fields. In computer graphics, special attention has been given to the registration between two partial point clouds generated by scanning devices.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Zihao Yan , Zimu Yi , Ruizhen Hu , Niloy J. Mitra , Daniel Cohen-Or , Hui Huang

Multi-instance point cloud registration aims to estimate the pose of all instances of a model point cloud in the whole scene. Existing methods all adopt the strategy of first obtaining the global correspondence and then clustering to obtain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Liyuan Zhang , Le Hui , Qi Liu , Bo Li , Yuchao Dai

With current trends in sensors (cheaper, more volume of data) and applications (increasing affordability for new tasks, new ideas in what 3D data could be useful for); there is corresponding increasing interest in the ability to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Giang Truong , Huu Le , Alvaro Parra , Syed Zulqarnain Gilani , Syed M. S. Islam , David Suter

This paper reports on a novel nonparametric rigid point cloud registration framework that jointly integrates geometric and semantic measurements such as color or semantic labels into the alignment process and does not require explicit data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Ray Zhang , Tzu-Yuan Lin , Chien Erh Lin , Steven A. Parkison , William Clark , Jessy W. Grizzle , Ryan M. Eustice , Maani Ghaffari

Point clouds of 3D objects exhibit an inherent compositional nature where simple parts can be assembled into progressively more complex shapes to form whole objects. Explicitly capturing such part-whole hierarchy is a long-sought objective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Antonio Montanaro , Diego Valsesia , Enrico Magli

The prevalence of accessible depth sensing and 3D laser scanning techniques has enabled the convenient acquisition of 3D dynamic point clouds, which provide efficient representation of arbitrarily-shaped objects in motion. Nevertheless,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-10 Wei Hu , Qianjiang Hu , Zehua Wang , Xiang Gao

Point cloud registration has seen recent success with several learning-based methods that focus on correspondence matching and, as such, optimize only for this objective. Following the learning step of correspondence matching, they evaluate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Shengze Jin , Daniel Barath , Marc Pollefeys , Iro Armeni

Point clouds have become an increasingly important representation for 3D medical imaging, offering a compact, surface-preserving alternative to traditional voxel or mesh-based approaches. Recent advances in deep learning have enabled rapid…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-04 Tongxu Zhang , Zhiming Liang , Bei Wang