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We address the challenge of point cloud registration using color information, where traditional methods relying solely on geometric features often struggle in low-overlap and incomplete scenarios. To overcome these limitations, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Jiayi Tian , Haiduo Huang , Tian Xia , Wenzhe Zhao , Pengju Ren

Although point cloud registration has achieved remarkable advances in object-level and indoor scenes, large-scale registration methods are rarely explored. Challenges mainly arise from the huge point number, complex distribution, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Jiuming Liu , Guangming Wang , Zhe Liu , Chaokang Jiang , Marc Pollefeys , Hesheng Wang

LiDAR point cloud registration is fundamental to robotic perception and navigation. In geometrically degenerate environments (e.g., corridors), registration becomes ill-conditioned: certain motion directions are weakly constrained, causing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Xiangcheng Hu , Xieyuanli Chen , Mingkai Jia , Jin Wu , Ping Tan , Steven L. Waslander

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

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

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

Large-scale scene point cloud registration with limited overlap is a challenging task due to computational load and constrained data acquisition. To tackle these issues, we propose a point cloud registration method, MT-PCR, based on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Yilong Wu , Yifan Duan , Yuxi Chen , Xinran Zhang , Yedong Shen , Jianmin Ji , Yanyong Zhang , Lu Zhang

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 2019-12-13 Vinit Sarode , Xueqian Li , Hunter Goforth , Yasuhiro Aoki , Animesh Dhagat , Rangaprasad Arun Srivatsan , Simon Lucey , Howie Choset

Global registration using 3D point clouds is a crucial technology for mobile platforms to achieve localization or manage loop-closing situations. In recent years, numerous researchers have proposed global registration methods to address a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Hyungtae Lim , Suyong Yeon , Soohyun Ryu , Yonghan Lee , Youngji Kim , Jaeseong Yun , Euigon Jung , Donghwan Lee , Hyun Myung

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

We introduce C-GenReg, a training-free framework for 3D point cloud registration that leverages the complementary strengths of world-scale generative priors and registration-oriented Vision Foundation Models (VFMs). Current learning-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Yuval Haitman , Amit Efraim , Joseph M. Francos

This study introduces a novel framework, G3Reg, for fast and robust global registration of LiDAR point clouds. In contrast to conventional complex keypoints and descriptors, we extract fundamental geometric primitives, including planes,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Zhijian Qiao , Zehuan Yu , Binqian Jiang , Huan Yin , Shaojie Shen

Cross-source point cloud registration, which aims to align point cloud data from different sensors, is a fundamental task in 3D vision. However, compared to the same-source point cloud registration, cross-source registration faces two core…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Zongyi Xu , Zhongpeng Lang , Yilong Chen , Shanshan Zhao , Xiaoshui Huang , Yifan Zuo , Yan Zhang , Qianni Zhang , Xinbo Gao

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

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

Generating a set of high-quality correspondences or matches is one of the most critical steps in point cloud registration. This paper proposes a learning framework COTReg by jointly considering the pointwise and structural matchings to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Guofeng Mei , Xiaoshui Huang , Litao Yu , Jian Zhang , Mohammed Bennamoun

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

Point cloud registration is a fundamental task in 3D computer vision. Most existing methods rely solely on geometric information for feature extraction and matching. Recently, several studies have incorporated color information from RGB-D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Congjia Chen , Yufu Qu

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

We present, for the first time, a novel theoretical approach to address the problem of correspondence free multivector cloud registration in conformal geometric algebra. Such formalism achieves several favorable properties. Primarily, it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Francisco Xavier Vasconcelos , Jacinto C. Nascimento