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We present a fast feature-metric point cloud registration framework, which enforces the optimisation of registration by minimising a feature-metric projection error without correspondences. The advantage of the feature-metric projection…
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A high-fidelity digital simulation environment is crucial for accurately replicating physical operational processes. However, inconsistencies between simulation and physical environments result in low confidence in simulation outcomes,…
This paper presents a novel control algorithm for robotic manipulators in unstructured environments using proximity sensors partially distributed on the platform. The proposed approach exploits arrays of multi zone Time-of-Flight (ToF)…
Recognizing human actions from point cloud videos has attracted tremendous attention from both academia and industry due to its wide applications like automatic driving, robotics, and so on. However, current methods for point cloud action…
Surface parameterization is a fundamental geometry processing problem with rich downstream applications. Traditional approaches are designed to operate on well-behaved mesh models with high-quality triangulations that are laboriously…
Foundation models pre-trained on massive unlabeled datasets have revolutionized natural language and computer vision, exhibiting remarkable generalization capabilities, thus highlighting the importance of pre-training. Yet, efforts in…
A robot self-model is a task-agnostic representation of the robot's physical morphology that can be used for motion planning tasks in the absence of a classical geometric kinematic model. In particular, when the latter is hard to engineer…
Mobile robots dedicated in security tasks should be capable of clearly perceiving their environment to competently navigate within cluttered areas, so as to accomplish their assigned mission. The paper in hand describes such an autonomous…
Learning semantic representations from point sets of 3D object shapes is often challenged by significant geometric variations, primarily due to differences in data acquisition methods. Typically, training data is generated using point…
Point cloud registration has seen significant advancements with the application of deep learning techniques. However, existing approaches often overlook the potential of integrating radiometric information from RGB images. This limitation…
3D point cloud registration is a fundamental problem in computer vision and robotics. There has been extensive research in this area, but existing methods meet great challenges in situations with a large proportion of outliers and time…
Screwdriving is one of the most popular industrial processes. As such, it is increasingly common to automate that procedure by using various robots. Even though the automation increases the efficiency of the screwdriving process, if the…
Registration of point clouds related by rigid transformations is one of the fundamental problems in computer vision. However, a solution to the practical scenario of aligning sparsely and differently sampled observations in the presence of…
Given a point cloud, we consider inferring kinematic models of 3D articulated objects such as boxes for the purpose of manipulating them. While previous work has shown how to extract a planar kinematic model (often represented as a linear…
A 3D point cloud is an unstructured, sparse, and irregular dataset, typically collected by airborne LiDAR systems over a geological region. Laser pulses emitted from these systems reflect off objects both on and above the ground, resulting…
This paper presents a robust probabilistic point registration method for estimating the rigid transformation (i.e. rotation matrix and translation vector) between two pointcloud dataset. The method improves the robustness of point…
In this paper, we propose a transformer-based procedure for the efficient registration of non-rigid 3D point clouds. The proposed approach is data-driven and adopts for the first time the transformer architecture in the registration task.…
High-resolution 3D point clouds are highly effective for detecting subtle structural anomalies in industrial inspection. However, their dense and irregular nature imposes significant challenges, including high computational cost,…