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Bridging 2D and 3D sensor modalities is critical for robust perception in autonomous systems. However, image-to-point cloud (I2P) registration remains challenging due to the semantic-geometric gap between texture-rich but depth-ambiguous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Xingmei Wang , Xiaoyu Hu , Chengkai Huang , Ziyan Zeng , Guohao Nie , Quan Z. Sheng , Lina Yao

The majority of point cloud registration methods currently rely on extracting features from points. However, these methods are limited by their dependence on information obtained from a single modality of points, which can result in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Yifan Xie , Jihua Zhu , Shiqi Li , Pengcheng Shi

Critical to the registration of point clouds is the establishment of a set of accurate correspondences between points in 3D space. The correspondence problem is generally addressed by the design of discriminative 3D local descriptors on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Lei Zhou , Siyu Zhu , Zixin Luo , Tianwei Shen , Runze Zhang , Mingmin Zhen , Tian Fang , Long Quan

The primary requirement for cross-modal data fusion is the precise alignment of data from different sensors. However, the calibration between LiDAR point clouds and camera images is typically time-consuming and needs external calibration…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Yuanchao Yue , Hui Yuan , Zhengxin Li , Shuai Li , Wei Zhang

3D point cloud registration is a fundamental problem in computer vision and robotics. There has been extensive research in this area, but existing methods meet great challenges in situations with a large proportion of outliers and time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Kexue Fu , Shaolei Liu , Xiaoyuan Luo , Manning Wang

Cross-source point cloud registration, which aims to align point cloud data from different sensors, is a fundamental task in 3D vision. However, compared to the same-source point cloud registration, cross-source registration faces two core…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Zongyi Xu , Zhongpeng Lang , Yilong Chen , Shanshan Zhao , Xiaoshui Huang , Yifan Zuo , Yan Zhang , Qianni Zhang , Xinbo Gao

Multiview point cloud registration is a fundamental task for constructing globally consistent 3D models. Existing approaches typically rely on feature extraction and data association across multiple point clouds; however, these processes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Yiran Zhou , Yingyu Wang , Shoudong Huang , Liang Zhao

Prior point cloud provides 3D environmental context, which enhances the capabilities of monocular camera in downstream vision tasks, such as 3D object detection, via data fusion. However, the absence of accurate and automated registration…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Yu Sheng , Lu Zhang , Xingchen Li , Yifan Duan , Yanyong Zhang , Yu Zhang , Jianmin Ji

State-of-the-art 3D point cloud registration methods rely on labeled 3D datasets for training, which limits their practical applications in real-world scenarios and often hinders generalization to unseen scenes. Leveraging the zero-shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Weijie Wang , Wenqi Ren , Guofeng Mei , Bin Ren , Xiaoshui Huang , Fabio Poiesi , Nicu Sebe , Bruno Lepri

Cross-modality point cloud registration is confronted with significant challenges due to inherent differences in modalities between different sensors. We propose a cross-modality point cloud registration framework FF-LOGO: a cross-modality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Nan Ma , Mohan Wang , Yiheng Han , Yong-Jin Liu

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

Image-to-point cloud registration seeks to estimate their relative camera pose, which remains an open question due to the data modality gaps. The recent matching-based methods tend to tackle this by building 2D-3D correspondences. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Gongxin Yao , Xinyang Li , Yixin Xuan , Yu Pan

The discriminative feature is crucial for point cloud registration. Recent methods improve the feature discriminative by distinguishing between non-overlapping and overlapping region points. However, they still face challenges in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Xiaoshui Huang , Zhou Huang , Yifan Zuo , Yongshun Gong , Chengdong Zhang , Deyang Liu , Yuming Fang

Place recognition is an important task for robots and autonomous cars to localize themselves and close loops in pre-built maps. While single-modal sensor-based methods have shown satisfactory performance, cross-modal place recognition that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Weidong Xie , Lun Luo , Nanfei Ye , Yi Ren , Shaoyi Du , Minhang Wang , Jintao Xu , Rui Ai , Weihao Gu , Xieyuanli Chen

We introduce C-GenReg, a training-free framework for 3D point cloud registration that leverages the complementary strengths of world-scale generative priors and registration-oriented Vision Foundation Models (VFMs). Current learning-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Yuval Haitman , Amit Efraim , Joseph M. Francos

In feature-learning based point cloud registration, the correct correspondence construction is vital for the subsequent transformation estimation. However, it is still a challenge to extract discriminative features from point cloud,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Lifa Zhu , Haining Guan , Changwei Lin , Renmin Han

This work addresses the problem of point cloud registration using deep neural networks. We propose an approach to predict the alignment between two point clouds with overlapping data content, but displaced origins. Such point clouds…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Markus Horn , Nico Engel , Vasileios Belagiannis , Michael Buchholz , Klaus Dietmayer

Due to the density inconsistency and distribution difference between cross-source point clouds, previous methods fail in cross-source point cloud registration. We propose a density-robust feature extraction and matching scheme to achieve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Guiyu Zhao , Zhentao Guo , Zewen Du , Hongbin Ma

Using heterogeneous depth cameras and 3D scanners in 3D face verification causes variations in the resolution of the 3D point clouds. To solve this issue, previous studies use 3D registration techniques. Out of these proposed techniques,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Ahmed ElSayed , Elif Kongar , Ausif Mahmood , Tarek Sobh , Terrance Boult

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