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We propose a methodology for robust, real-time place recognition using an imaging lidar, which yields image-quality high-resolution 3D point clouds. Utilizing the intensity readings of an imaging lidar, we project the point cloud and obtain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Tixiao Shan , Brendan Englot , Fabio Duarte , Carlo Ratti , Daniela Rus

Registration of 3D LiDAR point clouds with optical images is critical in the combination of multi-source data. Geometric misalignment originally exists in the pose data between LiDAR point clouds and optical images. To improve the accuracy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Hao Ma , Jingbin Liu , Keke Liu , Hongyu Qiu , Dong Xu , Zemin Wang , Xiaodong Gong , Sheng Yang

Point cloud registration is a fundamental technique in 3-D computer vision with applications in graphics, autonomous driving, and robotics. However, registration tasks under challenging conditions, under which noise or perturbations are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Rui She , Qiyu Kang , Sijie Wang , Wee Peng Tay , Kai Zhao , Yang Song , Tianyu Geng , Yi Xu , Diego Navarro Navarro , Andreas Hartmannsgruber

The motivation of this paper is to address the problem of registering airborne LiDAR data and optical aerial or satellite imagery acquired from different platforms, at different times, with different points of view and levels of detail. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Thanh Huy Nguyen , Sylvie Daniel , Didier Gueriot , Christophe Sintes , Jean-Marc Le Caillec

Point clouds are a basic data type that is increasingly of interest as 3D content becomes more ubiquitous. Applications using point clouds include virtual, augmented, and mixed reality and autonomous driving. We propose a more efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Ryan Killea , Yun Li , Saeed Bastani , Paul McLachlan

Point-pixel registration between LiDAR point clouds and camera images is a fundamental yet challenging task in autonomous driving and robotic perception. A key difficulty lies in the modality gap between unstructured point clouds and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Yu Han , Zhiwei Huang , Yanting Zhang , Fangjun Ding , Shen Cai , Rui Fan

Extracting robust and general 3D local features is key to downstream tasks such as point cloud registration and reconstruction. Existing learning-based local descriptors are either sensitive to rotation transformations, or rely on classical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-12 Sheng Ao , Qingyong Hu , Bo Yang , Andrew Markham , Yulan Guo

We present a review of 3D point cloud processing and learning for autonomous driving. As one of the most important sensors in autonomous vehicles, light detection and ranging (LiDAR) sensors collect 3D point clouds that precisely record the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Siheng Chen , Baoan Liu , Chen Feng , Carlos Vallespi-Gonzalez , Carl Wellington

LiDAR registration is a fundamental task in robotic mapping and localization. A critical component of aligning two point clouds is identifying robust point correspondences using point descriptors. This step becomes particularly challenging…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Niclas Vödisch , Giovanni Cioffi , Marco Cannici , Wolfram Burgard , Davide Scaramuzza

We present a comprehensive survey and benchmark of both traditional and learning-based methods for surface reconstruction from point clouds. This task is particularly challenging for real-world acquisitions due to factors such as noise,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Raphael Sulzer , Renaud Marlet , Bruno Vallet , Loic Landrieu

Point cloud is a fundamental 3D representation which is widely used in real world applications such as autonomous driving. As a newly-developed media format which is characterized by complexity and irregularity, point cloud creates a need…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-10 Wei Yan , Yiting shao , Shan Liu , Thomas H Li , Zhu Li , Ge Li

Keypoint detection and description play a pivotal role in various robotics and autonomous applications including visual odometry (VO), visual navigation, and Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). While a myriad of keypoint detectors…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Haizhou Zhang , Xianjia Yu , Sier Ha , Tomi Westerlund

This paper introduces a new method for 3D point cloud registration based on deep learning. The architecture is composed of three distinct blocs: (i) an encoder composed of a convolutional graph-based descriptor that encodes the immediate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Karim Slimani , Brahim Tamadazte , Catherine Achard

Point cloud filtering is a fundamental problem in geometry modeling and processing. Despite of significant advancement in recent years, the existing methods still suffer from two issues: 1) they are either designed without preserving sharp…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Dongbo Zhang , Xuequan Lu , Hong Qin , Ying He

Point clouds are widely used representations of 3D data, but determining the visibility of points from a given viewpoint remains a challenging problem due to their sparse nature and lack of explicit connectivity. Traditional methods, such…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Jun-Hao Wang , Yi-Yang Tian , Baoquan Chen , Peng-Shuai Wang

Point cloud registration is the process of aligning a pair of point sets via searching for a geometric transformation. Recent works leverage the power of deep learning for registering a pair of point sets. However, unfortunately, deep…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-06-12 Lingjing Wang , Xiang Li , Yi Fang

In recent years, implicit functions have drawn attention in the field of 3D reconstruction and have successfully been applied with Deep Learning. However, for incremental reconstruction, implicit function-based registrations have been…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Yijun Yuan , Andreas Nuechter

In this paper we present ADOP, a novel point-based, differentiable neural rendering pipeline. Like other neural renderers, our system takes as input calibrated camera images and a proxy geometry of the scene, in our case a point cloud. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Darius Rückert , Linus Franke , Marc Stamminger

Co-Registration of aerial imagery and Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) data is quilt challenging because the different imaging mechanism causes significant geometric and radiometric distortions between such data. To tackle the problem,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Bai Zhu , Yuanxin Ye , Chao Yang , Liang Zhou , Huiyu Liu , Yungang Cao

Video anomaly detection has great potential in enhancing safety in the production and monitoring of crucial areas. Currently, most video anomaly detection methods are based on RGB modality, but its redundant semantic information may breach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Tengjiao He , Wenguang Wang