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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

With current trends in sensors (cheaper, more volume of data) and applications (increasing affordability for new tasks, new ideas in what 3D data could be useful for); there is corresponding increasing interest in the ability to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Giang Truong , Huu Le , Alvaro Parra , Syed Zulqarnain Gilani , Syed M. S. Islam , David Suter

Multitasking optimization is a recently introduced paradigm, focused on the simultaneous solving of multiple optimization problem instances (tasks). The goal of multitasking environments is to dynamically exploit existing complementarities…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Eneko Osaba , Aritz D. Martinez , Jesus L. Lobo , Ibai Laña , Javier Del Ser

Traditional methods present a very restrictive range of applications, mainly limited by the features of the function to be optimized and of the constraint functions. In contrast, evolutionary algorithms present almost no restriction to the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Mauro S. Innocente , Johann Sienz

A key challenge in reinforcement learning (RL) is managing the exploration-exploitation trade-off without sacrificing sample efficiency. Policy gradient (PG) methods excel in exploitation through fine-grained, gradient-based optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Zelal Su "Lain" Mustafaoglu , Keshav Pingali , Risto Miikkulainen

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

Evolutionary Multitasking (EMT) paradigm, an emerging research topic in evolutionary computation, has been successfully applied in solving high-dimensional feature selection (FS) problems recently. However, existing EMT-based FS methods…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Yinglan Feng , Liang Feng , Songbai Liu , Sam Kwong , Kay Chen Tan

Evolutionary multiobjective optimization (EMO) has made significant strides over the past two decades. However, as problem scales and complexities increase, traditional EMO algorithms face substantial performance limitations due to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Zhenyu Liang , Hao Li , Naiwei Yu , Kebin Sun , Ran Cheng

Recently, evolutionary multitasking (EMT) has been successfully used in the field of high-dimensional classification. However, the generation of multiple tasks in the existing EMT-based feature selection (FS) methods is relatively simple,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Lingjie Li , Manlin Xuan , Qiuzhen Lin , Min Jiang , Zhong Ming , Kay Chen Tan

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

Multi-task optimization is typically characterized by a fixed and finite set of tasks. The present paper relaxes this condition by considering a non-fixed and potentially infinite set of optimization tasks defined in a parameterized,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Tingyang Wei , Jiao Liu , Abhishek Gupta , Puay Siew Tan , Yew-Soon Ong

We present a novel differential matching algorithm for 3D point cloud registration. Instead of only optimizing the feature extractor for a matching algorithm, we propose a learning-based matching module optimized to the jointly-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Rintaro Yanagi , Atsushi Hashimoto , Shusaku Sone , Naoya Chiba , Jiaxin Ma , Yoshitaka Ushiku

Point cloud registration (PCR) is a fundamental task for integrating 3D observations in remote sensing applications. This paper proposes a fast and effective PCR algorithm utilizing probabilistic self-updating local correspondence and line…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Kuo-Liang Chung , Yu-Cheng Lin , Wu-Chi Chen

This paper investigates the use of evolutionary optimisation techniques to register a template with a scene image. An error function is created to measure the correspondence of the template to the image. The problem presented here is to…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Lukasz A Machowski , Tshilidzi Marwala

Self-supervised representation learning for point cloud has demonstrated effectiveness in improving pre-trained model performance across diverse tasks. However, as pre-trained models grow in complexity, fully fine-tuning them for downstream…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Song Wang , Xiaolu Liu , Lingdong Kong , Jianyun Xu , Chunyong Hu , Gongfan Fang , Wentong Li , Jianke Zhu , Xinchao Wang

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

Recent advances in data-driven evolutionary algorithms (EAs) have demonstrated the potential of leveraging historical data to improve optimization accuracy and adaptability. Despite these advancements, existing methods remain reliant on…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Tao Jiang , Kebin Sun , Zhenyu Liang , Ran Cheng , Yaochu Jin , Kay Chen Tan

Evolutionary multitasking (EMT) is an emerging approach for solving multitask optimization problems (MTOPs) and has garnered considerable research interest. The implicit EMT is a significant research branch that utilizes evolution operators…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Sheng-Hao Wu , Yuxiao Huang , Xingyu Wu , Liang Feng , Zhi-Hui Zhan , Kay Chen Tan

In general Evolutionary Computation (EC) includes a number of optimization methods inspired by biological mechanisms of evolution. The methods catalogued in this area use the Darwinian principles of life evolution to produce algorithms that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-04-11 José A. García Gutiérrez , Carlos Cotta , Antonio J. Fernández-Leiva

The placement scheme of virtual machines (VMs) to physical servers (PSs) is crucial to lowering operational cost for cloud providers. Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) have been performed promising-solving on virtual machine placement (VMP)…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Zhengping Liang , Jian Zhang , Liang Feng , Zexuan Zhu