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Registration is a fundamental but critical task in point cloud processing, which usually depends on finding element correspondence from two point clouds. However, the finding of reliable correspondence relies on establishing a robust and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Rong Huang , Wei Yao , Yusheng Xu , Zhen Ye , Uwe Stilla

The rapid growth of 3D point cloud data, driven by applications in autonomous driving, robotics, and immersive environments, has led to criticals demand for efficient compression and quality assessment techniques. Unlike traditional 2D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Yiling Xu , Yujie Zhang , Shuting Xia , Kaifa Yang , He Huang , Ziyu Shan , Wenjie Huang , Qi Yang , Le Yang

Point cloud registration is a task to estimate the rigid transformation between two unaligned scans, which plays an important role in many computer vision applications. Previous learning-based works commonly focus on supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Mingzhi Yuan , Kexue Fu , Zhihao Li , Yucong Meng , Manning Wang

This work investigates the use of robust optimal transport (OT) for shape matching. Specifically, we show that recent OT solvers improve both optimization-based and deep learning methods for point cloud registration, boosting accuracy at an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Zhengyang Shen , Jean Feydy , Peirong Liu , Ariel Hernán Curiale , Ruben San Jose Estepar , Raul San Jose Estepar , Marc Niethammer

Point cloud registration (PCR) is crucial for many downstream tasks, such as simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) and object tracking. This makes detecting and quantifying registration misalignment, i.e., PCR quality validation, an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Shipeng Liu , Ziliang Xiong , Khac-Hoang Ngo , Per-Erik Forssén

Point cloud registration is a fundamental technique in 3-D computer vision with applications in graphics, autonomous driving, and robotics. However, registration tasks under challenging conditions, under which noise or perturbations are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Rui She , Qiyu Kang , Sijie Wang , Wee Peng Tay , Kai Zhao , Yang Song , Tianyu Geng , Yi Xu , Diego Navarro Navarro , Andreas Hartmannsgruber

Rigid registration of point clouds is a fundamental problem in computer vision with many applications from 3D scene reconstruction to geometry capture and robotics. If a suitable initial registration is available, conventional methods like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Ludwig Mohr , Ismail Geles , Friedrich Fraundorfer

Deep learning (DL) has become one of the mainstream and effective methods for point cloud analysis tasks such as detection, segmentation and classification. To reduce overfitting during training DL models and improve model performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Qinfeng Zhu , Lei Fan , Ningxin Weng

Point cloud registration refers to the problem of finding the rigid transformation that aligns two given point clouds, and is crucial for many applications in robotics and computer vision. The main insight of this paper is that we can…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Richard Cheng , Chavdar Papozov , Dan Helmick , Mark Tjersland

Learning-based point cloud registration methods can handle clean point clouds well, while it is still challenging to generalize to noisy, partial, and density-varying point clouds. To this end, we propose a novel point cloud registration…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Leida Zhang , Zhengda Lu , Kai Liu , Yiqun Wang

Cross-modal data registration has long been a critical task in computer vision, with extensive applications in autonomous driving and robotics. Accurate and robust registration methods are essential for aligning data from different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Yuanchao Yue , Hui Yuan , Qinglong Miao , Xiaolong Mao , Raouf Hamzaoui , Peter Eisert

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

This paper presents a robust probabilistic point registration method for estimating the rigid transformation (i.e. rotation matrix and translation vector) between two pointcloud dataset. The method improves the robustness of point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-12 Saman Fahandezh-Saadi , Di Wang , Masayoshi Tomizuka

Accurate 3D geometry acquisition is essential for a wide range of applications, such as computer graphics, autonomous driving, robotics, and augmented reality. However, raw point clouds acquired in real-world environments are often…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Jinxi Wang , Ben Fei , Dasith de Silva Edirimuni , Zheng Liu , Ying He , Xuequan Lu

Point cloud registration (PCR) is an essential task in 3D vision. Existing methods achieve increasingly higher accuracy. However, a large proportion of non-overlapping points in point cloud registration consume a lot of computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Yang Ai , Qiang Bai , Jindong Li , Xi Yang

Registration is the process that computes the transformation that aligns sets of data. Commonly, a registration process can be divided into four main steps: target selection, feature extraction, feature matching, and transform computation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Victor Villena-Martinez , Sergiu Oprea , Marcelo Saval-Calvo , Jorge Azorin-Lopez , Andres Fuster-Guillo , Robert B. Fisher

Point cloud registration is a fundamental task for estimating rigid transformations between point clouds. Previous studies have used geometric information for extracting features, matching and estimating transformation. Recently, owing to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Congjia Chen , Xiaoyu Jia , Yanhong Zheng , Yufu Qu

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 cloud registration is a fundamental problem in 3D scanning. In this paper, we address the frequent special case of registering terrestrial LiDAR scans (or, more generally, levelled point clouds). Many current solutions still rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-03 Zhipeng Cai , Tat-Jun Chin , Alvaro Parra Bustos , Konrad Schindler

Current point cloud registration methods are mainly based on local geometric information and usually ignore the semantic information contained in the scenes. In this paper, we treat the point cloud registration problem as a semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Shaocong Liu , Tao Wang , Yan Zhang , Ruqin Zhou , Li Li , Chenguang Dai , Yongsheng Zhang , Longguang Wang , Hanyun Wang