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In this paper, we study the cross-modal image retrieval, where the inputs contain a source image plus some text that describes certain modifications to this image and the desired image. Prior work usually uses a three-stage strategy to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Chunbin Gu , Jiajun Bu , Xixi Zhou , Chengwei Yao , Dongfang Ma , Zhi Yu , Xifeng Yan

Point cloud segmentation is a fundamental task in 3D scene understanding. Its progress is constrained by the high cost and time required for dense 3D annotations, making labeled samples difficult to obtain. Beyond annotation scarcity,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Thenukan Pathmanathan , Kanchan Keisham , Thangarajah Akilan

Recently, cross-source point cloud registration from different sensors has become a significant research focus. However, traditional methods confront challenges due to the varying density and structure of cross-source point clouds. In order…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Yu Wang , Shuhui Bu , Lin Chen , Yifei Dong , Kun Li , Xuefeng Cao , Ke Li

This paper presents a robust probabilistic point registration method for estimating the rigid transformation (i.e. rotation matrix and translation vector) between two pointcloud dataset. The method improves the robustness of point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-12 Saman Fahandezh-Saadi , Di Wang , Masayoshi Tomizuka

Point cloud registration is a fundamental problem in computer vision that aims to estimate the transformation between corresponding sets of points. Non-rigid registration, in particular, involves addressing challenges including various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Sara Monji-Azad , Marvin Kinz , Jürgen Hesser

Recent work showed that large diffusion models can be reused as highly precise monocular depth estimators by casting depth estimation as an image-conditional image generation task. While the proposed model achieved state-of-the-art results,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Gonzalo Martin Garcia , Karim Knaebel , Christian Schmidt , Daan de Geus , Alexander Hermans , Bastian Leibe

We propose a new framework that formulates point cloud registration as a denoising diffusion process from noisy transformation to object transformation. During training stage, object transformation diffuses from ground-truth transformation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Yue Wu , Yongzhe Yuan , Xiaolong Fan , Xiaoshui Huang , Maoguo Gong , Qiguang Miao

As the task of 2D-to-3D reconstruction has gained significant attention in various real-world scenarios, it becomes crucial to be able to generate high-quality point clouds. Despite the recent success of deep learning models in generating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Yu Feng , Xing Shi , Mengli Cheng , Yun Xiong

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

In the domain of point cloud registration, the coarse-to-fine feature matching paradigm has received substantial attention owing to its impressive performance. This paradigm involves a two-step process: first, the extraction of multi-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Junjie Gao , Qiujie Dong , Ruian Wang , Shuangmin Chen , Shiqing Xin , Changhe Tu , Wenping Wang

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

Infrared and visible images, as multi-modal image pairs, show significant differences in the expression of the same scene. The image fusion task is faced with two problems: one is to maintain the unique features between different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Zixuan Wang , Bin Sun

Learning for manipulation requires using policies that have access to rich sensory information such as point clouds or RGB images. Point clouds efficiently capture geometric structures, making them essential for manipulation tasks in…

Diffusion models, while trained for image generation, have emerged as powerful foundational feature extractors for downstream tasks. We find that off-the-shelf diffusion models, trained exclusively to generate natural RGB images, can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Nurislam Tursynbek , Hastings Greer , Basar Demir , Marc Niethammer

In this paper we explore the recent topic of point cloud completion, guided by an auxiliary image. We show how it is possible to effectively combine the information from the two modalities in a localized latent space, thus avoiding the need…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Emanuele Aiello , Diego Valsesia , Enrico Magli

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 has seen recent success with several learning-based methods that focus on correspondence matching and, as such, optimize only for this objective. Following the learning step of correspondence matching, they evaluate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Shengze Jin , Daniel Barath , Marc Pollefeys , Iro Armeni

Feature matching is a cornerstone task in computer vision, essential for applications such as image retrieval, stereo matching, 3D reconstruction, and SLAM. This survey comprehensively reviews modality-based feature matching, exploring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Weide Liu , Wei Zhou , Jun Liu , Ping Hu , Jun Cheng , Jungong Han , Weisi Lin

Establishing reliable correspondences is essential for registration tasks such as 3D and 2D3D registration. Existing methods commonly leverage geometric or semantic point features to generate potential correspondences. However, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Qianliang Wu , Haobo Jiang , Lei Luo , Jun Li , Yaqing Ding , Jin Xie , Jian Yang

Semantic segmentation of aerial point cloud data can be utilised to differentiate which points belong to classes such as ground, buildings, or vegetation. Point clouds generated from aerial sensors mounted to drones or planes can utilise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Matthew Howe , Boris Repasky , Timothy Payne