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Robust point cloud registration is a fundamental task in 3D computer vision and geometric deep learning, essential for applications such as large-scale 3D reconstruction, augmented reality, and scene understanding. However, the performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Dongxu Zhang , Yingsen Wang , Yiding Sun , Haoran Xu , Peilin Fan , Jihua Zhu

We study the problem of outlier correspondence pruning for non-rigid point cloud registration. In rigid registration, spatial consistency has been a commonly used criterion to discriminate outliers from inliers. It measures the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Zheng Qin , Hao Yu , Changjian Wang , Yuxing Peng , Kai Xu

Registration is a transformation estimation problem between two point clouds, which has a unique and critical role in numerous computer vision applications. The developments of optimization-based methods and deep learning methods have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Xiaoshui Huang , Guofeng Mei , Jian Zhang , Rana Abbas

The paper presents a simple and effective learning-based method for computing a discriminative 3D point cloud descriptor for place recognition purposes. Recent state-of-the-art methods have relatively complex architectures such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Jacek Komorowski

In this letter, we propose a point cloud structural similarity-based loop detection method for underwater Simultaneous Localization and Mapping using sonar sensors. Existing sonar-based loop detection approaches often rely on 2D projection…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Donghwi Jung , Andres Pulido , Jane Shin , Seong-Woo Kim

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

With current trends in sensors (cheaper, more volume of data) and applications (increasing affordability for new tasks, new ideas in what 3D data could be useful for); there is corresponding increasing interest in the ability to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Giang Truong , Huu Le , Alvaro Parra , Syed Zulqarnain Gilani , Syed M. S. Islam , David Suter

Point cloud registration is a fundamental task for estimating rigid transformations between point clouds. Previous studies have used geometric information for extracting features, matching and estimating transformation. Recently, owing to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Congjia Chen , Xiaoyu Jia , Yanhong Zheng , Yufu Qu

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 cloud registration is a fundamental task in 3D computer vision. Most existing methods rely solely on geometric information for feature extraction and matching. Recently, several studies have incorporated color information from RGB-D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Congjia Chen , Yufu Qu

We propose a robust method for point cloud registration that can handle both unknown scales and extreme outlier ratios. Our method, dubbed PCR-99, uses a deterministic 3-point sampling approach with two novel mechanisms that significantly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Seong Hun Lee , Javier Civera , Patrick Vandewalle

Point cloud registration involves aligning one point cloud with another or with a three-dimensional (3D) model, enabling the integration of multimodal data into a unified representation. This is essential in applications such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Mehdi Maboudi , Said Harb , Jackson Ferrao , Kourosh Khoshelham , Yelda Turkan , Karam Mawas

3D anomaly detection in point-cloud data is critical for industrial quality control, aiming to identify structural defects with high reliability. However, current memory bank-based methods often suffer from inconsistent feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Yuyang Yu , Zhengwei Chen , Xuemiao Xu , Lei Zhang , Haoxin Yang , Yongwei Nie , Shengfeng He

Point cloud registration is a fundamental problem in 3D computer vision. In this paper, we cast point cloud registration into a planning problem in reinforcement learning, which can seek the transformation between the source and target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Haobo Jiang , Jin Xie , Jianjun Qian , Jian Yang

Object classification using LiDAR 3D point cloud data is critical for modern applications such as autonomous driving. However, labeling point cloud data is labor-intensive as it requires human annotators to visualize and inspect the 3D data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Ziwei Wang , Reza Arablouei , Jiajun Liu , Paulo Borges , Greg Bishop-Hurley , Nicholas Heaney

As a primitive 3D data representation, point clouds are prevailing in 3D sensing, yet short of intrinsic structural information of the underlying objects. Such discrepancy poses great challenges on directly establishing correspondences…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Puhua Jiang , Mingze Sun , Ruqi Huang

Diffusion models are a powerful framework for tackling ill-posed problems, with recent advancements extending their use to point cloud upsampling. Despite their potential, existing diffusion models struggle with inefficiencies as they map…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Zhi-Song Liu , Chenhang He , Lei Li

Point cloud data has been extensively studied due to its compact form and flexibility in representing complex 3D structures. The ability of point cloud data to accurately capture and represent intricate 3D geometry makes it an ideal choice…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Ben Fei , Weidong Yang , Liwen Liu , Tianyue Luo , Rui Zhang , Yixuan Li , Ying He

Point cloud data have been widely explored due to its superior accuracy and robustness under various adverse situations. Meanwhile, deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved very impressive success in various applications such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Aoran Xiao , Jiaxing Huang , Dayan Guan , Xiaoqin Zhang , Shijian Lu , Ling Shao

In this paper, we propose a novel learning-based pipeline for partially overlapping 3D point cloud registration. The proposed model includes an iterative distance-aware similarity matrix convolution module to incorporate information from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-07 Jiahao Li , Changhao Zhang , Ziyao Xu , Hangning Zhou , Chi Zhang