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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

We present a novel, end-to-end learnable, multiview 3D point cloud registration algorithm. Registration of multiple scans typically follows a two-stage pipeline: the initial pairwise alignment and the globally consistent refinement. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Zan Gojcic , Caifa Zhou , Jan D. Wegner , Leonidas J. Guibas , Tolga Birdal

In this paper, we propose a novel 3D registration paradigm, Generative Point Cloud Registration, which bridges advanced 2D generative models with 3D matching tasks to enhance registration performance. Our key idea is to generate cross-view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Haobo Jiang , Jin Xie , Jian Yang , Liang Yu , Jianmin Zheng

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

3D object detection has become indispensable in the field of autonomous driving. To date, gratifying breakthroughs have been recorded in 3D object detection research, attributed to deep learning. However, deep learning algorithms are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Yucheng Zhang , Masaki Fukuda , Yasunori Ishii , Kyoko Ohshima , Takayoshi Yamashita

We present DeepICP - a novel end-to-end learning-based 3D point cloud registration framework that achieves comparable registration accuracy to prior state-of-the-art geometric methods. Different from other keypoint based methods where a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Weixin Lu , Guowei Wan , Yao Zhou , Xiangyu Fu , Pengfei Yuan , Shiyu Song

Real-time registration of partially overlapping point clouds has emerging applications in cooperative perception for autonomous vehicles and multi-agent SLAM. The relative translation between point clouds in these applications is higher…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Eduardo Arnold , Sajjad Mozaffari , Mehrdad Dianati

Deep neural networks endow the downsampled superpoints with highly discriminative feature representations. Previous dominant point cloud registration approaches match these feature representations as the first step, e.g., using the Sinkhorn…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Aniket Gupta , Yiming Xie , Hanumant Singh , Huaizu Jiang

Point cloud registration has seen significant advancements with the application of deep learning techniques. However, existing approaches often overlook the potential of integrating radiometric information from RGB images. This limitation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Zhaoyi Wang , Shengyu Huang , Jemil Avers Butt , Yuanzhou Cai , Matej Varga , Andreas Wieser

Registering an object shape to a sequence of point clouds undergoing non-rigid deformation is a long-standing challenge. The key difficulties stem from two factors: (i) the presence of local minima due to the non-convexity of registration…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Guangzhao He , Yuxi Xiao , Zhen Xu , Xiaowei Zhou , Sida Peng

3D point cloud registration ranks among the most fundamental problems in remote sensing, photogrammetry, robotics and geometric computer vision. Due to the limited accuracy of 3D feature matching techniques, outliers may exist, sometimes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Lei Sun

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 (PCR) estimates the relative rigid transformation between two point clouds of the same scene. Despite significant progress with learning-based approaches, existing methods still face challenges when the overlapping…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Zhi Chen , Yufan Ren , Tong Zhang , Zheng Dang , Wenbing Tao , Sabine Süsstrunk , Mathieu Salzmann

We present a novel non-iterative learnable method for partial-to-partial 3D shape registration. The partial alignment task is extremely complex, as it jointly tries to match between points and identify which points do not appear in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Dvir Ginzburg , Dan Raviv

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

Point cloud registration is a crucial problem in computer vision and robotics. Existing methods either rely on matching local geometric features, which are sensitive to the pose differences, or leverage global shapes, which leads to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Cheng-Wei Lin , Tung-I Chen , Hsin-Ying Lee , Wen-Chin Chen , Winston H. Hsu

Although point cloud registration has achieved remarkable advances in object-level and indoor scenes, large-scale registration methods are rarely explored. Challenges mainly arise from the huge point number, complex distribution, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Jiuming Liu , Guangming Wang , Zhe Liu , Chaokang Jiang , Marc Pollefeys , Hesheng Wang

Recent investigations on rotation invariance for 3D point clouds have been devoted to devising rotation-invariant feature descriptors or learning canonical spaces where objects are semantically aligned. Examinations of learning frameworks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Jianhui Yu , Chaoyi Zhang , Weidong Cai

Point cloud registration is a fundamental problem in 3D scanning. In this paper, we address the frequent special case of registering terrestrial LiDAR scans (or, more generally, levelled point clouds). Many current solutions still rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-03 Zhipeng Cai , Tat-Jun Chin , Alvaro Parra Bustos , Konrad Schindler

Iterative Closest Point (ICP) solves the rigid point cloud registration problem iteratively in two steps: (1) make hard assignments of spatially closest point correspondences, and then (2) find the least-squares rigid transformation. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Zi Jian Yew , Gim Hee Lee