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Image-to-point-cloud registration (I2P) is a fundamental task in robotic applications such as manipulation,grasping, and localization. Existing deep learning-based I2P methods seek to align image and point cloud features in a learned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Muyao Peng , Shun Zou , Pei An , You Yang , Qiong Liu

This paper presents a point cloud downsampling algorithm for fast and accurate trajectory optimization based on global registration error minimization. The proposed algorithm selects a weighted subset of residuals of the input point cloud…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Kenji Koide , Shuji Oishi , Masashi Yokozuka , Atsuhiko Banno

3D object detection from point clouds plays a critical role in autonomous driving. Currently, the primary methods for point cloud processing are voxel-based and pillar-based approaches. Voxel-based methods offer high accuracy through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Liu Qifeng , Zhao Dawei , Dong Yabo , Xiao Liang , Wang Juan , Min Chen , Li Fuyang , Jiang Weizhong , Lu Dongming , Nie Yiming

Registration algorithms, such as Iterative Closest Point (ICP), have proven effective in mobile robot localization algorithms over the last decades. However, they are susceptible to failure when a robot sustains extreme velocities and…

Point-set registration is a classical image processing problem that looks for the optimal transformation between two sets of points. In this work, we analyze the impact of outliers when finding the optimal rotation between two point clouds.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-09 Cindy Orozco Bohorquez , Yuehaw Khoo , Lexing Ying

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

Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is widely used for dimensionality reduction and data analysis. However, PCA results are adversely affected by outliers often observed in real-world data. Existing robust PCA methods are often…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Timbwaoga Aime Judicael Ouermi , Jixian Li , Chris R. Johnson

Point cloud registration is a classical topic in the field of 3D Vision and Computer Graphics. Generally, the implementation of registration is typically sensitive to similarity transformations (translation, scaling, and rotation), noisy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Chenlei Lv , Hui Huang

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

Many computer vision tasks involve processing large amounts of data contaminated by outliers, which need to be detected and rejected. While outlier detection methods based on robust statistics have existed for decades, only recently have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-14 Chong You , Daniel P. Robinson , René Vidal

Most existing 3D geometry copy detection research focused on 3D watermarking, which first embeds ``watermarks'' and then detects the added watermarks. However, this kind of methods is non-straightforward and may be less robust to attacks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Jiaqi Yang , Xuequan Lu , Wenzhi Chen

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

Recent methods for learning a linear subspace from data corrupted by outliers are based on convex $\ell_1$ and nuclear norm optimization and require the dimension of the subspace and the number of outliers to be sufficiently small. In sharp…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Zhihui Zhu , Yifan Wang , Daniel P. Robinson , Daniel Q. Naiman , Rene Vidal , Manolis C. Tsakiris

Point cloud registration involves determining a rigid transformation to align a source point cloud with a target point cloud. This alignment is fundamental in applications such as autonomous driving, robotics, and medical imaging, where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Yu-Xin Zhang , Jie Gui , Baosheng Yu , Xiaofeng Cong , Xin Gong , Wenbing Tao , Dacheng Tao

Point cloud registration is a fundamental problem in many domains. Practically, the overlap between point clouds to be registered may be relatively small. Most unsupervised methods lack effective initial evaluation of overlap, leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Pengcheng Shi , Jie Zhang , Haozhe Cheng , Junyang Wang , Yiyang Zhou , Chenlin Zhao , Jihua Zhu

An unsupervised point cloud object retrieval and pose estimation method, called PCRP, is proposed in this work. It is assumed that there exists a gallery point cloud set that contains point cloud objects with given pose orientation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Pranav Kadam , Qingyang Zhou , Shan Liu , C. -C. Jay Kuo

This paper proposes an extension of Random Projection Depth (RPD) to cope with multiple modalities and non-convexity on data clouds. In the framework of the proposed method, the RPD is computed in a reproducing kernel Hilbert space. With…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-09-07 Akira Tamamori

Outliers are ubiquitous in modern data sets. Distance-based techniques are a popular non-parametric approach to outlier detection as they require no prior assumptions on the data generating distribution and are simple to implement. Scaling…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-05-04 Mario Lucic , Olivier Bachem , Andreas Krause

Point cloud registration is a key problem for computer vision applied to robotics, medical imaging, and other applications. This problem involves finding a rigid transformation from one point cloud into another so that they align. Iterative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-10 Yue Wang , Justin M. Solomon

This paper introduces a new method for 3D point cloud registration based on deep learning. The architecture is composed of three distinct blocs: (i) an encoder composed of a convolutional graph-based descriptor that encodes the immediate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Karim Slimani , Brahim Tamadazte , Catherine Achard