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Point Cloud Registration (PCR) estimates the relative rigid transformation between two point clouds of the same scene. Despite significant progress with learning-based approaches, existing methods still face challenges when the overlapping…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Zhi Chen , Yufan Ren , Tong Zhang , Zheng Dang , Wenbing Tao , Sabine Süsstrunk , Mathieu Salzmann

Point cloud registration is a fundamental and challenging problem for autonomous robots interacting in unstructured environments for applications such as object pose estimation, simultaneous localization and mapping, robot-sensor…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Michael Gentner , Prajval Kumar Murali , Mohsen Kaboli

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

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

3D point cloud registration is fragile to outliers, which are labeled as the points without corresponding points. To handle this problem, a widely adopted strategy is to estimate the relative pose based only on some accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Zhiyuan Zhang , Jiadai Sun , Yuchao Dai , Bin Fan , Mingyi He

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

Contrastive learning is an essential method in self-supervised learning. It primarily employs a multi-branch strategy to compare latent representations obtained from different branches and train the encoder. In the case of multi-modal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Chengzhi Wu , Qianliang Huang , Kun Jin , Julius Pfrommer , Jürgen Beyerer

Multiview point cloud registration serves as a cornerstone of various computer vision tasks. Previous approaches typically adhere to a global paradigm, where a pose graph is initially constructed followed by motion synchronization to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Shiqi Li , Jihua Zhu , Yifan Xie , Mingchen Zhu

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 work, we tackle the task of estimating the 6D pose of an object from point cloud data. While recent learning-based approaches to addressing this task have shown great success on synthetic datasets, we have observed them to fail in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Zheng Dang , Lizhou Wang , Yu Guo , Mathieu Salzmann

This paper proposes an adaptive margin contrastive learning method for 3D semantic segmentation on point clouds. Most existing methods use equally penalized objectives, which ignore the per-point ambiguities and less discriminated features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Yang Chen , Yueqi Duan , Haowen Sun , Jiwen Lu , Yap-Peng Tan

Multiview clustering (MVC) aims to reveal the underlying structure of multiview data by categorizing data samples into clusters. Deep learning-based methods exhibit strong feature learning capabilities on large-scale datasets. For most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Jie Chen , Hua Mao , Wai Lok Woo , Xi Peng

For the registration of partially overlapping point clouds, this paper proposes an effective approach based on both the hard and soft assignments. Given two initially posed clouds, it firstly establishes the forward correspondence for each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-02 Congcong Jin , Jihua Zhu , Yaochen Li , Shaoyi Du , Zhongyu Li , Huimin Lu

Probabilistic 3D point cloud registration methods have shown competitive performance in overcoming noise, outliers, and density variations. However, registering point cloud pairs in the case of partial overlap is still a challenge. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Guofeng Mei , Fabio Poiesi , Cristiano Saltori , Jian Zhang , Elisa Ricci , Nicu Sebe

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

In this paper, we propose an algorithm for registering sequential bounding boxes with point cloud streams. Unlike popular point cloud registration techniques, the alignment of the point cloud and the bounding box can rely on the properties…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Xuesong Li , Xinge Zhu , Yuexin Ma , Subhan Khan , Jose Guivant

Vision transformers (ViTs) have recently been widely applied to 3D point cloud understanding, with masked autoencoding as the predominant pre-training paradigm. However, the challenge of learning dense and informative semantic features from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Bin Ren , Xiaoshui Huang , Mengyuan Liu , Hong Liu , Fabio Poiesi , Nicu Sebe , Guofeng Mei

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

Matching cross-modality features between images and point clouds is a fundamental problem for image-to-point cloud registration. However, due to the modality difference between images and points, it is difficult to learn robust and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Haiping Wang , Yuan Liu , Bing Wang , Yujing Sun , Zhen Dong , Wenping Wang , Bisheng Yang

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training, benefiting from large-scale unlabeled text-image pairs, has demonstrated great performance in open-world vision understanding tasks. However, due to the limited Text-3D data pairs, adapting the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Yihan Zeng , Chenhan Jiang , Jiageng Mao , Jianhua Han , Chaoqiang Ye , Qingqiu Huang , Dit-Yan Yeung , Zhen Yang , Xiaodan Liang , Hang Xu