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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

Rigid point cloud registration is a fundamental problem and highly relevant in robotics and autonomous driving. Nowadays deep learning methods can be trained to match a pair of point clouds, given the transformation between them. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Christian Löwens , Thorben Funke , André Wagner , Alexandru Paul Condurache

A successful point cloud registration often lies on robust establishment of sparse matches through discriminative 3D local features. Despite the fast evolution of learning-based 3D feature descriptors, little attention has been drawn to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-09 Xuyang Bai , Zixin Luo , Lei Zhou , Hongbo Fu , Long Quan , Chiew-Lan Tai

This paper introduces a robust unsupervised SE(3) point cloud registration method that operates without requiring point correspondences. The method frames point clouds as functions in a reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS), leveraging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Ray Zhang , Zheming Zhou , Min Sun , Omid Ghasemalizadeh , Cheng-Hao Kuo , Ryan Eustice , Maani Ghaffari , Arnie Sen

Point cloud registration is the process of aligning a pair of point sets via searching for a geometric transformation. Recent works leverage the power of deep learning for registering a pair of point sets. However, unfortunately, deep…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-06-12 Lingjing Wang , Xiang Li , Yi Fang

Point cloud registration is a key problem for computer vision applied to robotics, medical imaging, and other applications. This problem involves finding a rigid transformation from one point cloud into another so that they align. Iterative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-10 Yue Wang , Justin M. Solomon

This paper presents a NeRF-based framework for point cloud (PCD) reconstruction, specifically designed for indoor high-throughput plant phenotyping facilities. Traditional NeRF-based reconstruction methods require cameras to move around…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Kibon Ku , Talukder Z Jubery , Elijah Rodriguez , Aditya Balu , Soumik Sarkar , Adarsh Krishnamurthy , Baskar Ganapathysubramanian

Point cloud-based large scale place recognition is an important but challenging task for many applications such as Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM). Taking the task as a point cloud retrieval problem, previous methods have made…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Zhaoxin Fan , Zhenbo Song , Wenping Zhang , Hongyan Liu , Jun He , Xiaoyong Du

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

3D point cloud registration is a fundamental problem in computer vision and robotics. Recently, learning-based point cloud registration methods have made great progress. However, these methods are sensitive to outliers, which lead to more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Kexue Fu , Jiazheng Luo , Xiaoyuan Luo , Shaolei Liu , Chenxi Zhang , Manning Wang

Accurate Point Cloud Registration (PCR) is an important task in 3D data processing, involving the estimation of a rigid transformation between two point clouds. While deep-learning methods have addressed key limitations of traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Yasaman Kashefbahrami , Erkut Akdag , Panagiotis Meletis , Evgeniya Balmashnova , Dip Goswami , Egor Bondarau

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

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

Point cloud registration is an important task in robotics and autonomous driving to estimate the ego-motion of the vehicle. Recent advances following the coarse-to-fine manner show promising potential in point cloud registration. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Chenghao Shi , Xieyuanli Chen , Huimin Lu , Wenbang Deng , Junhao Xiao , Bin Dai

We present an improved approach for 3D object detection in point cloud data based on the Frustum PointNet (F-PointNet). Compared to the original F-PointNet, our newly proposed method considers the point neighborhood when computing point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-12 Chengzhi Wu , Julius Pfrommer , Jürgen Beyerer , Kangning Li , Boris Neubert

PointNet has recently emerged as a popular representation for unstructured point cloud data, allowing application of deep learning to tasks such as object detection, segmentation and shape completion. However, recent works in literature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-13 Vinit Sarode , Xueqian Li , Hunter Goforth , Yasuhiro Aoki , Animesh Dhagat , Rangaprasad Arun Srivatsan , Simon Lucey , Howie Choset

The introduction of cheap RGB-D cameras, stereo cameras, and LIDAR devices has given the computer vision community 3D information that conventional RGB cameras cannot provide. This data is often stored as a point cloud. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-22 Aleksandr Savchenkov , Andrew Davis , Xuan Zhao

This paper introduces a new hybrid descriptor for 3D point matching and point cloud registration, combining local geometrical properties and learning-based feature propagation for each point's neighborhood structure description. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Karim Slimani , Brahim Tamadazte , Catherine Achard

State-of-the-art 3D point cloud registration methods rely on labeled 3D datasets for training, which limits their practical applications in real-world scenarios and often hinders generalization to unseen scenes. Leveraging the zero-shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Weijie Wang , Wenqi Ren , Guofeng Mei , Bin Ren , Xiaoshui Huang , Fabio Poiesi , Nicu Sebe , Bruno Lepri

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