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Inspired by the recent PointHop classification method, an unsupervised 3D point cloud registration method, called R-PointHop, is proposed in this work. R-PointHop first determines a local reference frame (LRF) for every point using its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Pranav Kadam , Min Zhang , Shan Liu , C. -C. Jay Kuo

In this paper, we introduce a novel approach to implicitly encode precise robot morphology using forward kinematics based on a configuration space signed distance function. Our proposed Robot Neural Distance Function (RNDF) optimizes the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Yiting Chen , Xiao Gao , Kunpeng Yao , Loïc Niederhauser , Yasemin Bekiroglu , Aude Billard

Labeling LiDAR point clouds for training autonomous driving is extremely expensive and difficult. LiDAR simulation aims at generating realistic LiDAR data with labels for training and verifying self-driving algorithms more efficiently.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Junge Zhang , Feihu Zhang , Shaochen Kuang , Li Zhang

Rigid point cloud registration is a fundamental problem and highly relevant in robotics and autonomous driving. Nowadays deep learning methods can be trained to match a pair of point clouds, given the transformation between them. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Christian Löwens , Thorben Funke , André Wagner , Alexandru Paul Condurache

In the field of large-scale SLAM for autonomous driving and mobile robotics, 3D point cloud based place recognition has aroused significant research interest due to its robustness to changing environments with drastic daytime and weather…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Zhijian Qiao , Hanjiang Hu , Weiang Shi , Siyuan Chen , Zhe Liu , Hesheng Wang

Point cloud registration is fundamental in 3D vision applications, including autonomous driving, robotics, and medical imaging, where precise alignment of multiple point clouds is essential for accurate environment reconstruction. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Yongqiang Wang , Weigang Li , Wenping Liu , Zhiqiang Tian , Jinling Li

Cloud robotics has emerged as a promising technology for robotics applications due to its advantages of offloading computationally intensive tasks, facilitating data sharing, and enhancing robot coordination. However, integrating cloud…

Existing state-of-the-art 3D point clouds understanding methods only perform well in a fully supervised manner. To the best of our knowledge, there exists no unified framework which simultaneously solves the downstream high-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Kangcheng Liu

Constructing accurate digital twins of articulated objects is essential for robotic simulation training and embodied AI world model building, yet historically requires painstaking manual modeling or multi-stage pipelines. In this work, we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Zhe Li , Xiang Bai , Jieyu Zhang , Zhuangzhe Wu , Che Xu , Ying Li , Chengkai Hou , Shanghang Zhang

We present a near real-time method for 6-DoF tracking of an unknown object from a monocular RGBD video sequence, while simultaneously performing neural 3D reconstruction of the object. Our method works for arbitrary rigid objects, even when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Bowen Wen , Jonathan Tremblay , Valts Blukis , Stephen Tyree , Thomas Muller , Alex Evans , Dieter Fox , Jan Kautz , Stan Birchfield

This work studies the problem of unsupervised RGB-D point cloud registration, which aims at training a robust registration model without ground-truth pose supervision. Existing methods usually leverages unposed RGB-D sequences and adopt a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Zhinan Yu , Zheng Qin , Yijie Tang , Yongjun Wang , Renjiao Yi , Chenyang Zhu , Kai Xu

Poles and building edges are frequently observable objects on urban roads, conveying reliable hints for various computer vision tasks. To repetitively extract them as features and perform association between discrete LiDAR frames for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Xiangrui Zhao , Sheng Yang , Tianxin Huang , Jun Chen , Teng Ma , Mingyang Li , Yong Liu

Point cloud registration has been one of the basic steps of point cloud processing, which has a lot of applications in remote sensing and robotics. In this report, we summarized the basic workflow of target-less point cloud…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Yue Pan

We present a learning-based method, namely GeoUDF,to tackle the long-standing and challenging problem of reconstructing a discrete surface from a sparse point cloud.To be specific, we propose a geometry-guided learning method for UDF and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Siyu Ren , Junhui Hou , Xiaodong Chen , Ying He , Wenping Wang

Integrating robot systems into manufacturing lines is a time-consuming process. In the era of digitalization, the research and development of new technologies is crucial for improving integration processes. Numerous challenges, including…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Daniella Tola

The objective of this work is to develop a data processing system that can automatically generate waypoints for navigation of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to inspect surfaces of structures like buildings and bridges. The input includes…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-02-14 M. D. Phung , C. H. Quach , D. T. Chu , N. Q. Nguyen , T. H. Dinh , Q. P. Ha

Global registration of point clouds aims to find an optimal alignment of a sequence of 2D or 3D point sets. In this paper, we present a novel method that takes advantage of current deep learning techniques for unsupervised learning of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Lingjing Wang , Yi Shi , Xiang Li , Yi Fang

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

3D point cloud registration in remote sensing field has been greatly advanced by deep learning based methods, where the rigid transformation is either directly regressed from the two point clouds (correspondences-free approaches) or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Zhiyuan Zhang , Jiadai Sun , Yuchao Dai , Dingfu Zhou , Xibin Song , Mingyi He

Point cloud registration is the process of aligning a pair of point sets via searching for a geometric transformation. Recent works leverage the power of deep learning for registering a pair of point sets. However, unfortunately, deep…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-06-12 Lingjing Wang , Xiang Li , Yi Fang