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Given the rapid development of 3D scanners, point clouds are becoming popular in AI-driven machines. However, point cloud data is inherently sparse and irregular, causing significant difficulties for machine perception. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Shi Qiu , Saeed Anwar , Nick Barnes

The world around us is full of soft objects we perceive and deform with dexterous hand movements. For a robotic hand to control soft objects, it has to acquire online state feedback of the deforming object. While RGB-D cameras can collect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Elham Amin Mansour , Hehui Zheng , Robert K. Katzschmann

The ability to build maps is a key functionality for the majority of mobile robots. A central ingredient to most mapping systems is the registration or alignment of the recorded sensor data. In this paper, we present a general methodology…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-19 Bartolomeo Della Corte , Igor Bogoslavskyi , Cyrill Stachniss , Giorgio Grisetti

This paper presents a partition-based surface registration for 3D morphable model(3DMM). In the 3DMM, it often requires to warp a handcrafted template model into different captured models. The proposed method first utilizes the landmarks to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Yuping Ye , Zhan Song , Juan Zhao

Point cloud registration is a key task in many computational fields. Previous correspondence matching based methods require the inputs to have distinctive geometric structures to fit a 3D rigid transformation according to point-wise sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Hao Xu , Shuaicheng Liu , Guangfu Wang , Guanghui Liu , Bing Zeng

This article presents a new method for non-rigidly registering a 3D shape to 2D keypoints observed by a constellation of multiple cameras. Non-rigid registration of a 3D shape to observed 2D keypoints, i.e., Shape-from-Template (SfT), has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Agniva Sengupta , Stefan Zachow

We investigate a variation of the 3D registration problem, named multi-model 3D registration. In the multi-model registration problem, we are given two point clouds picturing a set of objects at different poses (and possibly including…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-19 David Jin , Sushrut Karmalkar , Harry Zhang , Luca Carlone

Registration is widely used in image-guided therapy and image-guided surgery to estimate spatial correspondences between organs of interest between planning and treatment images. However, while high-quality computed tomography (CT) images…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-11 Lin Tian , Connor Puett , Peirong Liu , Zhengyang Shen , Stephen R. Aylward , Yueh Z. Lee , Marc Niethammer

Deformable medical image registration plays an important role in clinical diagnosis and treatment. Recently, the deep learning (DL) based image registration methods have been widely investigated and showed excellent performance in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-18 Yibo Wang , Wen Qian , Xuming Zhang

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

Accurate volumetric image registration is highly relevant for clinical routines and computer-aided medical diagnosis. Recently, researchers have begun to use transformers in learning-based methods for medical image registration, and have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Ahsan Raza Siyal , Astrid Ellen Grams , Markus Haltmeier

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

Query-based transformer has shown great potential in constructing long-range attention in many image-domain tasks, but has rarely been considered in LiDAR-based 3D object detection due to the overwhelming size of the point cloud data. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Zixiang Zhou , Xiangchen Zhao , Yu Wang , Panqu Wang , Hassan Foroosh

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

Medical image registration is critical for aligning anatomical structures across imaging modalities such as computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and ultrasound. Among existing techniques, non-rigid registration (NRR)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-17 Sneha Sree C. , Dattesh Shanbhag , Sudhanya Chatterjee

With the capacity of modeling long-range dependencies in sequential data, transformers have shown remarkable performances in a variety of generative tasks such as image, audio, and text generation. Yet, taming them in generating less…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-06 An-Chieh Cheng , Xueting Li , Sifei Liu , Min Sun , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Point cloud registration is a fundamental problem in 3D computer vision. In this paper, we cast point cloud registration into a planning problem in reinforcement learning, which can seek the transformation between the source and target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Haobo Jiang , Jin Xie , Jianjun Qian , Jian Yang

Transformers have emerged as the state-of-the-art architecture in medical image registration, outperforming convolutional neural networks (CNNs) by addressing their limited receptive fields and overcoming gradient instability in deeper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Abu Zahid Bin Aziz , Mokshagna Sai Teja Karanam , Tushar Kataria , Shireen Y. Elhabian

In recent years, implicit functions have drawn attention in the field of 3D reconstruction and have successfully been applied with Deep Learning. However, for incremental reconstruction, implicit function-based registrations have been…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Yijun Yuan , Andreas Nuechter

In this paper, we present Position-to-Structure Attention Transformers (PS-Former), a Transformer-based algorithm for 3D point cloud recognition. PS-Former deals with the challenge in 3D point cloud representation where points are not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Zheng Ding , James Hou , Zhuowen Tu