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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

Correspondence search is an essential step in rigid point cloud registration algorithms. Most methods maintain a single correspondence at each step and gradually remove wrong correspondances. However, building one-to-one correspondence with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Jun-Jee Chao , Selim Engin , Nicolai Häni , Volkan Isler

Point cloud registration is the task of estimating the rigid transformation that aligns a pair of point cloud fragments. We present an efficient and robust framework for pairwise registration of real-world 3D scans, leveraging Hough voting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Junha Lee , Seungwook Kim , Minsu Cho , Jaesik Park

The problem of non-rigid point set registration is a key problem for many computer vision tasks. In many cases the nature of the data or capabilities of the point detection algorithms can give us some prior information on point sets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-17 Dmitry Lachinov , Vadim Turlapov

Point cloud is a collection of 3D coordinates that are discrete geometric samples of an object's 2D surfaces. Imperfection in the acquisition process means that point clouds are often corrupted with noise. Building on recent advances in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-12-20 Chinthaka Dinesh , Gene Cheung , Ivan V. Bajic

Rigid registration of point clouds with partial overlaps is a longstanding problem usually solved in two steps: (a) finding correspondences between the point clouds; (b) filtering these correspondences to keep only the most reliable ones to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Anh-Quan Cao , Gilles Puy , Alexandre Boulch , Renaud Marlet

Accurate 3D geometry acquisition is essential for a wide range of applications, such as computer graphics, autonomous driving, robotics, and augmented reality. However, raw point clouds acquired in real-world environments are often…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Jinxi Wang , Ben Fei , Dasith de Silva Edirimuni , Zheng Liu , Ying He , Xuequan Lu

3D Point cloud registration is still a very challenging topic due to the difficulty in finding the rigid transformation between two point clouds with partial correspondences, and it's even harder in the absence of any initial estimation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Zhijian Qiao , Huanshu Wei , Zhe Liu , Chuanzhe Suo , Hesheng Wang

High-resolution 3D point clouds are highly effective for detecting subtle structural anomalies in industrial inspection. However, their dense and irregular nature imposes significant challenges, including high computational cost,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Zi Wang , Katsuya Hotta , Koichiro Kamide , Yawen Zou , Chao Zhang , Jun Yu

In this paper, we propose a transformer-based procedure for the efficient registration of non-rigid 3D point clouds. The proposed approach is data-driven and adopts for the first time the transformer architecture in the registration task.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Giovanni Trappolini , Luca Cosmo , Luca Moschella , Riccardo Marin , Simone Melzi , Emanuele Rodolà

We address the challenge of point cloud registration using color information, where traditional methods relying solely on geometric features often struggle in low-overlap and incomplete scenarios. To overcome these limitations, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Jiayi Tian , Haiduo Huang , Tian Xia , Wenzhe Zhao , Pengju Ren

Accurate and efficient point cloud registration is a challenge because the noise and a large number of points impact the correspondence search. This challenge is still a remaining research problem since most of the existing methods rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Xiaoshui Huang , Zongyi Xu , Guofeng Mei , Sheng Li , Jian Zhang , Yifan Zuo , Yucheng Wang

Unsafe surgical care is a critical health concern, often linked to limitations in surgeon experience, skills, and situational awareness. Integrating patient-specific 3D models into the surgical field can enhance visualization, provide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Alberto Neri , Veronica Penza , Nazim Haouchine , Leonardo S. Mattos

In this work, we tackle the task of estimating the 6D pose of an object from point cloud data. While recent learning-based approaches to addressing this task have shown great success on synthetic datasets, we have observed them to fail in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Zheng Dang , Lizhou Wang , Yu Guo , Mathieu Salzmann

Point cloud registration plays a critical role in a multitude of computer vision tasks, such as pose estimation and 3D localization. Recently, a plethora of deep learning methods were formulated that aim to tackle this problem. Most of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Lisa Tse , Abdoul Aziz Amadou , Axen Georget , Ahmet Tuysuzoglu

Ground segmentation in point cloud data is the process of separating ground points from non-ground points. This task is fundamental for perception in autonomous driving and robotics, where safety and reliable operation depend on the precise…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Muhammad Haider Khan Lodhi , Christoph Hertzberg

Partial point cloud registration is a challenging problem in robotics, especially when the robot undergoes a large transformation, causing a significant initial pose error and a low overlap between measurements. This work proposes…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Chien Erh Lin , Minghan Zhu , Maani Ghaffari

In the field of robotics, the point cloud has become an essential map representation. From the perspective of downstream tasks like localization and global path planning, points corresponding to dynamic objects will adversely affect their…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Qingwen Zhang , Daniel Duberg , Ruoyu Geng , Mingkai Jia , Lujia Wang , Patric Jensfelt

Three dimensional (3D) object recognition is becoming a key desired capability for many computer vision systems such as autonomous vehicles, service robots and surveillance drones to operate more effectively in unstructured environments.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Chenxi Xiao , Juan Wachs

This paper concerns the research problem of point cloud registration to find the rigid transformation to optimally align the source point set with the target one. Learning robust point cloud registration models with deep neural networks has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Yu Hao , Yi Fang