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This paper introduces a new method for 3D point cloud registration based on deep learning. The architecture is composed of three distinct blocs: (i) an encoder composed of a convolutional graph-based descriptor that encodes the immediate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Karim Slimani , Brahim Tamadazte , Catherine Achard

We study the problem of extracting accurate correspondences for point cloud registration. Recent keypoint-free methods bypass the detection of repeatable keypoints which is difficult in low-overlap scenarios, showing great potential in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Zheng Qin , Hao Yu , Changjian Wang , Yulan Guo , Yuxing Peng , Kai Xu

Iterative Closest Point (ICP) solves the rigid point cloud registration problem iteratively in two steps: (1) make hard assignments of spatially closest point correspondences, and then (2) find the least-squares rigid transformation. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Zi Jian Yew , Gim Hee Lee

We study the problem of outlier correspondence pruning for non-rigid point cloud registration. In rigid registration, spatial consistency has been a commonly used criterion to discriminate outliers from inliers. It measures the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Zheng Qin , Hao Yu , Changjian Wang , Yuxing Peng , Kai Xu

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

In this paper, we present a new method for the multiview registration of point cloud. Previous multiview registration methods rely on exhaustive pairwise registration to construct a densely-connected pose graph and apply Iteratively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Haiping Wang , Yuan Liu , Zhen Dong , Yulan Guo , Yu-Shen Liu , Wenping Wang , Bisheng Yang

Robust point cloud registration in real-time is an important prerequisite for many mapping and localization algorithms. Traditional methods like ICP tend to fail without good initialization, insufficient overlap or in the presence of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-22 Kai Fischer , Martin Simon , Florian Oelsner , Stefan Milz , Horst-Michael Gross , Patrick Maeder

In this article, a novel approach for merging 3D point cloud maps in the context of egocentric multi-robot exploration is presented. Unlike traditional methods, the proposed approach leverages state-of-the-art place recognition and learned…

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

Recovering dense and uniformly distributed point clouds from sparse or noisy data remains a significant challenge. Recently, great progress has been made on these tasks, but usually at the cost of increasingly intricate modules or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Jihe Li , Bo Pang , Peng-Shuai Wang

Correspondence search is an essential step in rigid point cloud registration algorithms. Most methods maintain a single correspondence at each step and gradually remove wrong correspondances. However, building one-to-one correspondence with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Jun-Jee Chao , Selim Engin , Nicolai Häni , Volkan Isler

Unpaired point cloud completion is crucial for real-world applications, where ground-truth data for complete point clouds are often unavailable. By learning a completion map from unpaired incomplete and complete point cloud data, this task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Taekyung Lee , Jaemoo Choi , Jaewoong Choi , Myungjoo Kang

Multiview point cloud registration is a fundamental task for constructing globally consistent 3D models. Existing approaches typically rely on feature extraction and data association across multiple point clouds; however, these processes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Yiran Zhou , Yingyu Wang , Shoudong Huang , Liang Zhao

In this paper, we propose a coarse-to-fine integration solution inspired by the classical ICP algorithm, to pairwise 3D point cloud registration with two improvements of hybrid metric spaces (eg, BSC feature and Euclidean geometry spaces)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Yue Pan , Bisheng Yang , Fuxun Liang , Zhen Dong

Point cloud registration is a crucial technique in 3D computer vision with a wide range of applications. However, this task can be challenging, particularly in large fields of view with dynamic objects, environmental noise, or other…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Rui She , Sijie Wang , Qiyu Kang , Kai Zhao , Yang Song , Wee Peng Tay , Tianyu Geng , Xingchao Jian

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

We introduce Rectified Point Flow, a unified parameterization that formulates pairwise point cloud registration and multi-part shape assembly as a single conditional generative problem. Given unposed point clouds, our method learns a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Tao Sun , Liyuan Zhu , Shengyu Huang , Shuran Song , Iro Armeni

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

Many types of 3D acquisition sensors have emerged in recent years and point cloud has been widely used in many areas. Accurate and fast registration of cross-source 3D point clouds from different sensors is an emerged research problem in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-13 Xiaoshui Huang , Lixin Fan , Qiang Wu , Jian Zhang , Chun Yuan

Recent Transformer-based methods have achieved advanced performance in point cloud registration by utilizing advantages of the Transformer in order-invariance and modeling dependency to aggregate information. However, they still suffer from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Guangyan Chen , Meiling Wang , Yufeng Yue , Qingxiang Zhang , Li Yuan