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Global point cloud registration is essential in many robotics tasks like loop closing and relocalization. Unfortunately, the registration often suffers from the low overlap between point clouds, a frequent occurrence in practical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Zhijian Qiao , Zehuan Yu , Huan Yin , Shaojie Shen

Real-time registration of partially overlapping point clouds has emerging applications in cooperative perception for autonomous vehicles and multi-agent SLAM. The relative translation between point clouds in these applications is higher…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Eduardo Arnold , Sajjad Mozaffari , Mehrdad Dianati

Many types of 3D acquisition sensors have emerged in recent years and point cloud has been widely used in many areas. Accurate and fast registration of cross-source 3D point clouds from different sensors is an emerged research problem in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-13 Xiaoshui Huang , Lixin Fan , Qiang Wu , Jian Zhang , Chun Yuan

The precision of unsupervised point cloud registration methods is typically limited by the lack of reliable inlier estimation and self-supervised signal, especially in partially overlapping scenarios. In this paper, we propose an effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Yongzhe Yuan , Yue Wu , Maoguo Gong , Qiguang Miao , A. K. Qin

In this paper, we unify popular non-rigid registration methods for point sets and surfaces under our general framework, GiNGR. GiNGR builds upon Gaussian Process Morphable Models (GPMM) and hence separates modeling the deformation prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Dennis Madsen , Jonathan Aellen , Andreas Morel-Forster , Thomas Vetter , Marcel Lüthi

In this paper we address the problem of building a class of robust factorization algorithms that solve for the shape and motion parameters with both affine (weak perspective) and perspective camera models. We introduce a Gaussian/uniform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Andrei Zaharescu , Radu Horaud

In this paper, we study the problem of learning multi-dimensional Gaussian Mixture Models (GMMs), with a specific focus on model order selection and efficient mixing distribution estimation. We first establish an information-theoretic lower…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-23 Xinyu Liu , Hai Zhang

Accurate platform localization is an integral component of most robotic systems. As these robotic systems become more ubiquitous, it is necessary to develop robust state estimation algorithms that are able to withstand novel and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Ryan M. Watson , Jason N. Gross , Clark N. Taylor , Robert C. Leishman

We can use a method called registration to integrate some point clouds that represent the shape of the real world. In this paper, we propose highly accurate and stable registration method. Our method detects keypoints from point clouds and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Masaki Yoshii , Ikuko Shimizu

A comparative study of the application of Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) and Radial Basis Function (RBF) in biometric recognition of voice has been carried out and presented. The application of machine learning techniques to biometric…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-11-13 Fatai Adesina Anifowose

Point cloud registration is a fundamental problem in 3D scanning. In this paper, we address the frequent special case of registering terrestrial LiDAR scans (or, more generally, levelled point clouds). Many current solutions still rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-03 Zhipeng Cai , Tat-Jun Chin , Alvaro Parra Bustos , Konrad Schindler

Point Cloud Registration (PCR) estimates the relative rigid transformation between two point clouds of the same scene. Despite significant progress with learning-based approaches, existing methods still face challenges when the overlapping…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Zhi Chen , Yufan Ren , Tong Zhang , Zheng Dang , Wenbing Tao , Sabine Süsstrunk , Mathieu Salzmann

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

We study here a Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) with rare events data. In this case, the commonly used Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithm exhibits extremely slow numerical convergence rate. To theoretically understand this phenomenon, we…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-05-28 Xuetong Li , Jing Zhou , Hansheng Wang

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

Correspondence-based rotation search and point cloud registration are two fundamental problems in robotics and computer vision. However, the presence of outliers, sometimes even occupying the great majority of the putative correspondences,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Lei Sun

Gaussian mixtures are a powerful and widely used tool to model non-Gaussian estimation problems. They are able to describe measurement errors that follow arbitrary distributions and can represent ambiguity in assignment tasks like point set…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Tim Pfeifer , Sven Lange , Peter Protzel

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

This paper presents iMatcher, a fully differentiable framework for feature matching in point cloud registration. The proposed method leverages learned features to predict a geometrically consistent confidence matrix, incorporating both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Karim Slimani , Catherine Achard , Brahim Tamadazte

This paper presents a novel randomized algorithm for robust point cloud registration without correspondences. Most existing registration approaches require a set of putative correspondences obtained by extracting invariant descriptors.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Huu Le , Thanh-Toan Do , Tuan Hoang , Ngai-Man Cheung