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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

Successful point cloud registration relies on accurate correspondences established upon powerful descriptors. However, existing neural descriptors either leverage a rotation-variant backbone whose performance declines under large rotations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Hao Yu , Ji Hou , Zheng Qin , Mahdi Saleh , Ivan Shugurov , Kai Wang , Benjamin Busam , Slobodan Ilic

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

Recent advances in computer vision and deep learning have shown promising performance in estimating rigid/similarity transformation between unregistered point clouds of complex objects and scenes. However, their performances are mostly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Ningli Xu , Rongjun Qin , Shuang Song

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 2019-11-05 Vinit Sarode , Xueqian Li , Hunter Goforth , Yasuhiro Aoki , Rangaprasad Arun Srivatsan , Simon Lucey , Howie Choset

3D point cloud registration is a fundamental problem in computer vision and robotics. There has been extensive research in this area, but existing methods meet great challenges in situations with a large proportion of outliers and time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Kexue Fu , Shaolei Liu , Xiaoyuan Luo , Manning Wang

Point cloud analysis (such as 3D segmentation and detection) is a challenging task, because of not only the irregular geometries of many millions of unordered points, but also the great variations caused by depth, viewpoint, occlusion, etc.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Tuo Feng , Wenguan Wang , Xiaohan Wang , Yi Yang , Qinghua Zheng

Existing networks directly learn feature representations on 3D point clouds for shape analysis. We argue that 3D point clouds are highly redundant and hold irregular (permutation-invariant) structure, which makes it difficult to achieve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Sameera Ramasinghe , Salman Khan , Nick Barnes , Stephen Gould

3D point cloud registration is a fundamental task in robotics and computer vision. Recently, many learning-based point cloud registration methods based on correspondences have emerged. However, these methods heavily rely on such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Lifa Zhu , Dongrui Liu , Changwei Lin , Rui Yan , Francisco Gómez-Fernández , Ninghua Yang , Ziyong Feng

Finding matching keypoints between images is a core problem in 3D computer vision. However, modern matchers struggle with large in-plane rotations. A straightforward mitigation is to learn rotation invariance via data augmentation. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 David Nordström , Johan Edstedt , Fredrik Kahl , Georg Bökman

Recent advances in imitation learning and vision-language models highlight the need for high-fidelity tactile perception, with 6-DoF tactile object pose estimation providing a crucial foundation for precise robotic manipulation. We…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Pengfei Ye , Yuxiang Ma , Yi Zhou , Wei Chen , Wenzhen Dong , Molong Duan

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

Point-cloud is an efficient way to represent 3D world. Analysis of point-cloud deals with understanding the underlying 3D geometric structure. But due to the lack of smooth topology, and hence the lack of neighborhood structure, standard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Liu Yang , Rudrasis Chakraborty , Stella X. Yu

We can use a method called registration to integrate some point clouds that represent the shape of the real world. In this paper, we propose highly accurate and stable registration method. Our method detects keypoints from point clouds and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Masaki Yoshii , Ikuko Shimizu

Point cloud analysis without pose priors is very challenging in real applications, as the orientations of point clouds are often unknown. In this paper, we propose a brand new point-set learning framework PRIN, namely, Point-wise Rotation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Yang You , Yujing Lou , Ruoxi Shi , Qi Liu , Yu-Wing Tai , Lizhuang Ma , Weiming Wang , Cewu Lu

Feature descriptors of point clouds are used in several applications, such as registration and part segmentation of 3D point clouds. Learning discriminative representations of local geometric features is unquestionably the most important…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-01 Seunghwan Jung , Yeong-Gil Shin , Minyoung Chung

In this paper, we propose a novel learning-based framework for 3D shape registration, which overcomes the challenges of significant non-rigid deformation and partiality undergoing among input shapes, and, remarkably, requires no…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Zhangquan Chen , Puhua Jiang , Mingze Sun , Ruqi Huang

To better address challenging issues of the irregularity and inhomogeneity inherently present in 3D point clouds, researchers have been shifting their focus from the design of hand-craft point feature towards the learning of 3D point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-21 Xiang Li , Mingyang Wang , Congcong Wen , Lingjing Wang , Nan Zhou , Yi Fang

Point cloud registration is crucial for ensuring 3D alignment consistency of multiple local point clouds in 3D reconstruction for remote sensing or digital heritage. While various point cloud-based registration methods exist, both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Xueyang Kang , Hang Zhao , Kourosh Khoshelham , Patrick Vandewalle

Invariance against rotations of 3D objects is an important property in analyzing 3D point set data. Conventional 3D point set DNNs having rotation invariance typically obtain accurate 3D shape features via supervised learning by using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Takahiko Furuya , Zhoujie Chen , Ryutarou Ohbuchi , Zhenzhong Kuang