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Current point cloud registration methods are mainly based on local geometric information and usually ignore the semantic information contained in the scenes. In this paper, we treat the point cloud registration problem as a semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Shaocong Liu , Tao Wang , Yan Zhang , Ruqin Zhou , Li Li , Chenguang Dai , Yongsheng Zhang , Longguang Wang , Hanyun Wang

In this paper, we address the point cloud registration problem, where well-known methods like ICP fail under uncertainty arising from sensor noise, pose-estimation errors, and partial overlap due to occlusion. We develop a novel approach,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Johannes A. Gaus , Loris Schneider , Yitian Shi , Jongseok Lee , Rania Rayyes , Rudolph Triebel

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

Map based visual inertial localization is a crucial step to reduce the drift in state estimation of mobile robots. The underlying problem for localization is to estimate the pose from a set of 3D-2D feature correspondences, of which the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Yanmei Jiao , Yue Wang , Bo Fu , Qimeng Tan , Lei Chen , Shoudong Huang , Rong Xiong

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

Existing Multi-view Clustering (MVC) methods based on subspace learning focus on consensus representation learning while neglecting the inherent topological structure of data. Despite the integration of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Chenping Pei , Fadi Dornaika , Jingjun Bi

In SLAM (Simultaneous localization and mapping) problems, Pose Graph Optimization (PGO) is a technique to refine an initial estimate of a set of poses (positions and orientations) from a set of pairwise relative measurements. The…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Emilio Olivastri , Alberto Pretto

Point cloud registration is a fundamental problem in computer vision and robotics, involving the alignment of 3D point sets captured from varying viewpoints using depth sensors such as LiDAR or structured light. In modern robotic systems,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Ashutosh Singandhupe , Sanket Lokhande , Hung Manh La

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

This paper addresses the problem of registering multiple point sets. Solutions to this problem are often approximated by repeatedly solving for pairwise registration, which results in an uneven treatment of the sets forming a pair: a model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-15 Georgios Evangelidis , Radu Horaud

Point cloud registration aims to provide estimated transformations to align point clouds, which plays a crucial role in pose estimation of various navigation systems, such as surgical guidance systems and autonomous vehicles. Despite the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Geng Li , Haozhi Cao , Mingyang Liu , Shenghai Yuan , Jianfei Yang

State-of-the-art LiDAR calibration frameworks mainly use non-probabilistic registration methods such as Iterative Closest Point (ICP) and its variants. These methods suffer from biased results due to their pair-wise registration procedure…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Ilir Tahiraj , Felix Fent , Philipp Hafemann , Egon Ye , Markus Lienkamp

Point cloud registration based on correspondences computes the rigid transformation that maximizes the number of inliers constrained within the noise threshold. Current state-of-the-art (SOTA) methods employing spatial compatibility graphs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Zhao Zheng , Jingfan Fan , Long Shao , Hong Song , Danni Ai , Tianyu Fu , Deqiang Xiao , Yongtian Wang , Jian Yang

Point cloud registration involves determining a rigid transformation to align a source point cloud with a target point cloud. This alignment is fundamental in applications such as autonomous driving, robotics, and medical imaging, where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Yu-Xin Zhang , Jie Gui , Baosheng Yu , Xiaofeng Cong , Xin Gong , Wenbing Tao , Dacheng Tao

A high-fidelity digital simulation environment is crucial for accurately replicating physical operational processes. However, inconsistencies between simulation and physical environments result in low confidence in simulation outcomes,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Songjie Han , Yinhua Liu , Yanzheng Li , Hua Chen , Dongmei Yang

We present a fast feature-metric point cloud registration framework, which enforces the optimisation of registration by minimising a feature-metric projection error without correspondences. The advantage of the feature-metric projection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Xiaoshui Huang , Guofeng Mei , Jian Zhang

This work addresses the problem of point cloud registration using deep neural networks. We propose an approach to predict the alignment between two point clouds with overlapping data content, but displaced origins. Such point clouds…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Markus Horn , Nico Engel , Vasileios Belagiannis , Michael Buchholz , Klaus Dietmayer

Traditional point cloud registration (PCR) methods for feature matching often employ the nearest neighbor policy. This leads to many-to-one matches and numerous potential inliers without any corresponding point. Recently, some approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Yaojie Zhang , Tianlun Huang , Weijun Wang , Wei Feng

Robust and discriminative feature learning is critical for high-quality point cloud registration. However, existing deep learning-based methods typically rely on Euclidean neighborhood-based strategies for feature extraction, which struggle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Shuyuan Lin , Wenwu Peng , Junjie Huang , Qiang Qi , Miaohui Wang , Jian Weng

3D point cloud registration is a fundamental problem in computer vision and robotics. Recently, learning-based point cloud registration methods have made great progress. However, these methods are sensitive to outliers, which lead to more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Kexue Fu , Jiazheng Luo , Xiaoyuan Luo , Shaolei Liu , Chenxi Zhang , Manning Wang