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This paper reports on a novel nonparametric rigid point cloud registration framework that jointly integrates geometric and semantic measurements such as color or semantic labels into the alignment process and does not require explicit data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Ray Zhang , Tzu-Yuan Lin , Chien Erh Lin , Steven A. Parkison , William Clark , Jessy W. Grizzle , Ryan M. Eustice , Maani Ghaffari

We present an approach to learning features that represent the local geometry around a point in an unstructured point cloud. Such features play a central role in geometric registration, which supports diverse applications in robotics and 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-18 Marc Khoury , Qian-Yi Zhou , Vladlen Koltun

The performance of 3D object detection models over point clouds highly depends on their capability of modeling local geometric patterns. Conventional point-based models exploit local patterns through a symmetric function (e.g. max pooling)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Jianan Li , Jiashi Feng

Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLPs) have become one of the fundamental architectural component in point cloud analysis due to its effective feature learning mechanism. However, when processing complex geometric structures in point clouds, MLPs'…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Yan Shi , Qingdong He , Yijun Liu , Xiaoyu Liu , Jingyong Su

Learning-based point cloud registration methods can handle clean point clouds well, while it is still challenging to generalize to noisy, partial, and density-varying point clouds. To this end, we propose a novel point cloud registration…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Leida Zhang , Zhengda Lu , Kai Liu , Yiqun Wang

Recent advances in deep learning have improved 3D point cloud registration but increased graphics processing unit (GPU) memory usage, often requiring preliminary sampling that reduces accuracy. We propose an overlapping region sampling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Tomoyasu Shimada , Kazuhiko Murasaki , Shogo Sato , Toshihiko Nishimura , Taiga Yoshida , Ryuichi Tanida

Point cloud registration (PCR) is a fundamental task in 3D computer vision and robotics. Most learning-based PCR methods rely on Transformer architectures, which suffer from quadratic computational complexity. This limitation restricts the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Bingxi Liu , An Liu , Hao Chen , Huaqi Tao , Jinqiang Cui , Yiqun Wang , Hong Zhang

Point cloud registration based on correspondences computes the rigid transformation that maximizes the number of inliers constrained within the noise threshold. Current state-of-the-art (SOTA) methods employing spatial compatibility graphs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Zhao Zheng , Jingfan Fan , Long Shao , Hong Song , Danni Ai , Tianyu Fu , Deqiang Xiao , Yongtian Wang , Jian Yang

Point cloud registration is the process of aligning a pair of point sets via searching for a geometric transformation. Unlike classical optimization-based methods, recent learning-based methods leverage the power of deep learning for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-02 Lingjing Wang , Xiang Li , Yi Fang

Point cloud registration is the basis for many robotic applications such as odometry and Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM), which are increasingly important for autonomous mobile robots. Computational resources and power budgets…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Keisuke Sugiura , Hiroki Matsutani

The trend of employing training-free methods for point cloud recognition is becoming increasingly popular due to its significant reduction in computational resources and time costs. However, existing approaches are limited as they typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Yan Chen , Di Huang , Zhichao Liao , Xi Cheng , Xinghui Li , Long Zeng

In recent years, the challenge of 3D shape analysis within point cloud data has gathered significant attention in computer vision. Addressing the complexities of effective 3D information representation and meaningful feature extraction for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Md Meraz , Md Afzal Ansari , Mohammed Javed , Pavan Chakraborty

We study the problem of extracting accurate correspondences for point cloud registration. Recent keypoint-free methods bypass the detection of repeatable keypoints which is difficult in low-overlap scenarios, showing great potential in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Zheng Qin , Hao Yu , Changjian Wang , Yulan Guo , Yuxing Peng , Kai Xu

Recent advances in computer vision and deep learning have shown promising performance in estimating rigid/similarity transformation between unregistered point clouds of complex objects and scenes. However, their performances are mostly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Ningli Xu , Rongjun Qin , Shuang Song

Point cloud registration is a fundamental problem in 3D computer vision, graphics and robotics. For the last few decades, existing registration algorithms have struggled in situations with large transformations, noise, and time constraints.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Wentao Yuan , Ben Eckart , Kihwan Kim , Varun Jampani , Dieter Fox , Jan Kautz

3D anomaly detection in point-cloud data is critical for industrial quality control, aiming to identify structural defects with high reliability. However, current memory bank-based methods often suffer from inconsistent feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Yuyang Yu , Zhengwei Chen , Xuemiao Xu , Lei Zhang , Haoxin Yang , Yongwei Nie , Shengfeng He

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

We study the problem of extracting accurate correspondences for point cloud registration. Recent keypoint-free methods have shown great potential through bypassing the detection of repeatable keypoints which is difficult to do especially in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Zheng Qin , Hao Yu , Changjian Wang , Yulan Guo , Yuxing Peng , Slobodan Ilic , Dewen Hu , Kai Xu

This paper introduces Point-GN, a novel non-parametric network for efficient and accurate 3D point cloud classification. Unlike conventional deep learning models that rely on a large number of trainable parameters, Point-GN leverages…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Marzieh Mohammadi , Amir Salarpour

Rigid registration of point clouds is a fundamental problem in computer vision with many applications from 3D scene reconstruction to geometry capture and robotics. If a suitable initial registration is available, conventional methods like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Ludwig Mohr , Ismail Geles , Friedrich Fraundorfer