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Learning rotation-invariant distinctive features is a fundamental requirement for point cloud registration. Existing methods often use rotation-sensitive networks to extract features, while employing rotation augmentation to learn an…

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Point cloud recognition is an essential task in industrial robotics and autonomous driving. Recently, several point cloud processing models have achieved state-of-the-art performances. However, these methods lack rotation robustness, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Dongrui Liu , Chuanchuan Chen , Changqing Xu , Qi Cai , Lei Chu , Fei Wen , Robert Caiming Qiu

Learning non-rigid registration in an end-to-end manner is challenging due to the inherent high degrees of freedom and the lack of labeled training data. In this paper, we resolve these two challenges simultaneously. First, we propose to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Wanquan Feng , Juyong Zhang , Hongrui Cai , Haofei Xu , Junhui Hou , Hujun Bao

Point cloud registration aligns multiple unposed point clouds into a common reference frame and is a core step for 3D reconstruction and robot localization without initial guess. In this work, we cast registration as conditional generation:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Yue Pan , Tao Sun , Liyuan Zhu , Lucas Nunes , Iro Armeni , Jens Behley , Cyrill Stachniss

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

3D object recognition has attracted wide research attention in the field of multimedia and computer vision. With the recent proliferation of deep learning, various deep models with different representations have achieved the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-24 Haoxuan You , Yifan Feng , Rongrong Ji , Yue Gao

Registration of point clouds related by rigid transformations is one of the fundamental problems in computer vision. However, a solution to the practical scenario of aligning sparsely and differently sampled observations in the presence of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Natalie Lang , Joseph M. Francos

Point cloud analysis has a wide range of applications in many areas such as computer vision, robotic manipulation, and autonomous driving. While deep learning has achieved remarkable success on image-based tasks, there are many unique…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Sushmita Sarker , Prithul Sarker , Gunner Stone , Ryan Gorman , Alireza Tavakkoli , George Bebis , Javad Sattarvand

This paper proposes a correspondence-free method for point cloud rotational registration. We learn an embedding for each point cloud in a feature space that preserves the SO(3)-equivariance property, enabled by recent developments in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Minghan Zhu , Maani Ghaffari , Huei Peng

Point cloud learning has lately attracted increasing attention due to its wide applications in many areas, such as computer vision, autonomous driving, and robotics. As a dominating technique in AI, deep learning has been successfully used…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Yulan Guo , Hanyun Wang , Qingyong Hu , Hao Liu , Li Liu , Mohammed Bennamoun

As a fundamental yet challenging problem in intelligent transportation systems, point cloud registration attracts vast attention and has been attained with various deep learning-based algorithms. The unsupervised registration algorithms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Dongrui Liu , Chuanchuan Chen , Changqing Xu , Robert Qiu , Lei Chu

The convenience of 3D sensors has led to an increase in the use of 3D point clouds in various applications. However, the differences in acquisition devices or scenarios lead to divergence in the data distribution of point clouds, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Zhimin Zhang , Xiang Gao , Wei Hu

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, Pointwise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-06 Yang You , Yujing Lou , Qi Liu , Yu-Wing Tai , Lizhuang Ma , Cewu Lu , Weiming Wang

As the development of 3D sensors, registration of 3D data (e.g. point cloud) coming from different kind of sensor is dispensable and shows great demanding. However, point cloud registration between different sensors is challenging because…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-01 Xiaoshui Huang

In many practical applications, 3D point cloud analysis requires rotation invariance. In this paper, we present a learnable descriptor invariant under 3D rotations and reflections, i.e., the O(3) actions, utilizing the recently introduced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Pavlo Melnyk , Andreas Robinson , Michael Felsberg , Mårten Wadenbäck

Scene-level point cloud registration is very challenging when considering dynamic foregrounds. Existing indoor datasets mostly assume rigid motions, so the trained models cannot robustly handle scenes with non-rigid motions. On the other…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Keyu Du , Hao Xu , Haipeng Li , Hong Qu , Chi-Wing Fu , Shuaicheng Liu

Point cloud registration plays a critical role in a multitude of computer vision tasks, such as pose estimation and 3D localization. Recently, a plethora of deep learning methods were formulated that aim to tackle this problem. Most of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Lisa Tse , Abdoul Aziz Amadou , Axen Georget , Ahmet Tuysuzoglu

In this paper, we propose a transformer-based procedure for the efficient registration of non-rigid 3D point clouds. The proposed approach is data-driven and adopts for the first time the transformer architecture in the registration task.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Giovanni Trappolini , Luca Cosmo , Luca Moschella , Riccardo Marin , Simone Melzi , Emanuele Rodolà

Recent advances in rotation-invariant (RI) learning for 3D point clouds typically replace raw coordinates with handcrafted RI features to ensure robustness under arbitrary rotations. However, these approaches often suffer from the loss of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Jiaxun Guo , Manar Amayri , Nizar Bouguila , Xin Liu , Wentao Fan

Point clouds are versatile representations of 3D objects and have found widespread application in science and engineering. Many successful deep-learning models have been proposed that use them as input. The domain of chemical and materials…

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