English
Related papers

Related papers: ML-SemReg: Boosting Point Cloud Registration with …

200 papers

Point clouds are a fundamental 3D data representation that underpins various computer vision tasks. Recently, Mamba has demonstrated strong potential for 3D point cloud understanding. However, existing approaches primarily focus on point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Bin Liu , Chunyang Wang , Xuelian Liu

We are interested in reconstructing the mesh representation of object surfaces from point clouds. Surface reconstruction is a prerequisite for downstream applications such as rendering, collision avoidance for planning, animation, etc.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Minghua Liu , Xiaoshuai Zhang , Hao Su

Multi-instance point cloud registration is the problem of estimating multiple poses of source point cloud instances within a target point cloud. Solving this problem is challenging since inlier correspondences of one instance constitute…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Mingzhi Yuan , Zhihao Li , Qiuye Jin , Xinrong Chen , Manning Wang

Data association is important in the point cloud registration. In this work, we propose to solve the partial-to-partial registration from a new perspective, by introducing multi-level feature interactions between the source and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Hao Xu , Nianjin Ye , Guanghui Liu , Bing Zeng , Shuaicheng Liu

Patch-to-point matching has become a robust way of point cloud registration. However, previous patch-matching methods employ superpoints with poor localization precision as nodes, which may lead to ambiguous patch partitions. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Yiheng Li , Canhui Tang , Runzhao Yao , Aixue Ye , Feng Wen , Shaoyi Du

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

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

Rigid registration of partial observations is a fundamental problem in various applied fields. In computer graphics, special attention has been given to the registration between two partial point clouds generated by scanning devices.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Zihao Yan , Zimu Yi , Ruizhen Hu , Niloy J. Mitra , Daniel Cohen-Or , Hui Huang

While massively scaling both data and models have become central in NLP and 2D vision, their benefits for 3D point cloud understanding remain limited. We study the initial step of scaling 3D point cloud understanding under a realistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Xuweiyi Chen , Wentao Zhou , Aruni RoyChowdhury , Zezhou Cheng

We investigate a variation of the 3D registration problem, named multi-model 3D registration. In the multi-model registration problem, we are given two point clouds picturing a set of objects at different poses (and possibly including…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-19 David Jin , Sushrut Karmalkar , Harry Zhang , Luca Carlone

3D point cloud registration is a fundamental task in robotics and computer vision. Recently, many learning-based point cloud registration methods based on correspondences have emerged. However, these methods heavily rely on such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Lifa Zhu , Dongrui Liu , Changwei Lin , Rui Yan , Francisco Gómez-Fernández , Ninghua Yang , Ziyong Feng

Current semantic segmentation approaches for point cloud scenes heavily rely on manual labeling, while research on unsupervised semantic segmentation methods specifically for raw point clouds is still in its early stages. Unsupervised point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Lixin Zhan , Jie Jiang , Tianjian Zhou , Yukun Du , Yan Zheng , Xuehu Duan

The use of machine learning or artificial intelligence (ML/AI) holds substantial potential toward improving many functions and needs of the public sector. In practice however, integrating ML/AI components into public sector applications is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Grace A. Lewis , Stephany Bellomo , April Galyardt

Point cloud registration aligns multiple unposed point clouds into a common reference frame and is a core step for 3D reconstruction and robot localization without initial guess. In this work, we cast registration as conditional generation:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Yue Pan , Tao Sun , Liyuan Zhu , Lucas Nunes , Iro Armeni , Jens Behley , Cyrill Stachniss

PointNet has recently emerged as a popular representation for unstructured point cloud data, allowing application of deep learning to tasks such as object detection, segmentation and shape completion. However, recent works in literature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Vinit Sarode , Xueqian Li , Hunter Goforth , Yasuhiro Aoki , Rangaprasad Arun Srivatsan , Simon Lucey , Howie Choset

Despite significant progress in 3D point cloud segmentation, existing methods primarily address specific tasks and depend on explicit instructions to identify targets, lacking the capability to infer and understand implicit user intentions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Shuting He , Henghui Ding , Xudong Jiang , Bihan Wen

Current point cloud processing algorithms do not have the capability to automatically extract semantic information from the observed scenes, except in very specialized cases. Furthermore, existing mesh analysis paradigms cannot be directly…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-10-26 Reed M. Williams , Horea T. Ilieş

Image-to-point cloud registration methods typically follow a coarse-to-fine pipeline, extracting patch-level correspondences and refining them into dense pixel-to-point matches. However, in scenes with repetitive patterns, images often lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Zhixin Cheng , Jiacheng Deng , Xinjun Li , Bohao Liao , Li Liu , Xiaotian Yin , Baoqun Yin , Tianzhu Zhang

Multiview point cloud registration serves as a cornerstone of various computer vision tasks. Previous approaches typically adhere to a global paradigm, where a pose graph is initially constructed followed by motion synchronization to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Shiqi Li , Jihua Zhu , Yifan Xie , Mingchen Zhu

Data plays a crucial role in training learning-based methods for 3D point cloud registration. However, the real-world dataset is expensive to build, while rendering-based synthetic data suffers from domain gaps. In this work, we present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Suyi Chen , Hao Xu , Haipeng Li , Kunming Luo , Guanghui Liu , Chi-Wing Fu , Ping Tan , Shuaicheng Liu