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This paper presents a robust probabilistic point registration method for estimating the rigid transformation (i.e. rotation matrix and translation vector) between two pointcloud dataset. The method improves the robustness of point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-12 Saman Fahandezh-Saadi , Di Wang , Masayoshi Tomizuka

In this work, we propose to learn local descriptors for point clouds in a self-supervised manner. In each iteration of the training, the input of the network is merely one unlabeled point cloud. On top of our previous work, that directly…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-12 Yijun Yuan , Jiawei Hou , Andreas Nüchter , Sören Schwertfeger

Recently,vision-based robotic manipulation has garnered significant attention and witnessed substantial advancements. 2D image-based and 3D point cloud-based policy learning represent two predominant paradigms in the field, with recent…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Run Yu , Yangdi Liu , Wen-Da Wei , Chen Li

We propose a novel variational approach for computing neural Signed Distance Fields (SDF) from unoriented point clouds. To this end, we replace the commonly used eikonal equation with the heat method, carrying over to the neural domain what…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-02 Samuel Weidemaier , Florine Hartwig , Josua Sassen , Sergio Conti , Mirela Ben-Chen , Martin Rumpf

Recovering high-quality surfaces from irregular point cloud is ill-posed unless strong geometric priors are available. We introduce an implicit self-prior approach that distills a shape-specific prior directly from the input point cloud…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Kyle Fogarty , Chenyue Cai , Jing Yang , Zhilin Guo , Cengiz Öztireli

Many types of 3D acquisition sensors have emerged in recent years and point cloud has been widely used in many areas. Accurate and fast registration of cross-source 3D point clouds from different sensors is an emerged research problem in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-13 Xiaoshui Huang , Lixin Fan , Qiang Wu , Jian Zhang , Chun Yuan

Point clouds have become increasingly vital across various applications thanks to their ability to realistically depict 3D objects and scenes. Nevertheless, effectively compressing unstructured, high-precision point cloud data remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Hongning Ruan , Yulin Shao , Qianqian Yang , Liang Zhao , Dusit Niyato

Large and rich data is a prerequisite for effective training of deep neural networks. However, the irregularity of point cloud data makes manual annotation time-consuming and laborious. Self-supervised representation learning, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Xin Cao , Xinxin Han , Yifan Wang , Mengna Yang , Kang Li

As the basic task of point cloud analysis, classification is fundamental but always challenging. To address some unsolved problems of existing methods, we propose a network that captures geometric features of point clouds for better…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Shi Qiu , Saeed Anwar , Nick Barnes

Reconstructing continuous surfaces from 3D point clouds is a fundamental operation in 3D geometry processing. Several recent state-of-the-art methods address this problem using neural networks to learn signed distance functions (SDFs). In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Baorui Ma , Zhizhong Han , Yu-Shen Liu , Matthias Zwicker

The reconstruction of real-world surfaces is on high demand in various applications. Most existing reconstruction approaches apply 3D scanners for creating point clouds which are generally sparse and of low density. These points clouds will…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Rajat Sharma , Tobias Schwandt , Christian Kunert , Steffen Urban , Wolfgang Broll

Reconstructing a continuous surface from an unoritented 3D point cloud is a fundamental task in 3D shape processing. In recent years, several methods have been proposed to address this problem using implicit neural representations (INRs).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Ryutaro Yamauchi , Jinya Sakurai , Ryo Furukawa , Tatsushi Matsubayashi

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

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

Robust scene representation is essential for autonomous systems to safely operate in challenging low-visibility environments. Radar has a clear advantage over cameras and lidars in these conditions due to its resilience to environmental…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Judith Treffler , Vladimír Kubelka , Henrik Andreasson , Martin Magnusson

Patch-to-point matching has become a robust way of point cloud registration. However, previous patch-matching methods employ superpoints with poor localization precision as nodes, which may lead to ambiguous patch partitions. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Yiheng Li , Canhui Tang , Runzhao Yao , Aixue Ye , Feng Wen , Shaoyi Du

In image-guided liver surgery, the initial rigid alignment between preoperative and intraoperative data, often represented as point clouds, is crucial for providing sub-surface information from preoperative CT/MRI images to the surgeon…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Zixin Yang , Jon S. Heiselman , Cheng Han , Kelly Merrell , Richard Simon , Cristian. A. Linte

Much progress has been made on the task of learning-based 3D point cloud registration, with existing methods yielding outstanding results on standard benchmarks, such as ModelNet40, even in the partial-to-partial matching scenario.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Zheng Dang , Lizhou Wang , Junning Qiu , Minglei Lu , Mathieu Salzmann

Point Cloud Registration (PCR) is a fundamental and significant issue in photogrammetry and remote sensing, aiming to seek the optimal rigid transformation between sets of points. Achieving efficient and precise PCR poses a considerable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Rongling Zhang , Li Yan , Pengcheng Wei , Hong Xie , Pinzhuo Wang , Binbing Wang

Surface reconstruction is a fundamental problem in 3D graphics. In this paper, we propose a learning-based approach for implicit surface reconstruction from raw point clouds without normals. Our method is inspired by Gauss Lemma in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Dong Xiao , Siyou Lin , Zuoqiang Shi , Bin Wang