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Point set registration is a powerful method that enables robots to manipulate deformable objects. By mapping the point cloud of the current object to the pre-trained point cloud, a transformation function can be constructed. The…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-10 Rui Wang , Te Tang , Masayoshi Tomizuka

Point cloud registration plays a crucial role in various fields, including robotics, computer graphics, and medical imaging. This process involves determining spatial relationships between different sets of points, typically within a 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Yikun Bai , Huy Tran , Steven B. Damelin , Soheil Kolouri

The world around us is full of soft objects we perceive and deform with dexterous hand movements. For a robotic hand to control soft objects, it has to acquire online state feedback of the deforming object. While RGB-D cameras can collect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Elham Amin Mansour , Hehui Zheng , Robert K. Katzschmann

Non-rigid alignment of point clouds is crucial for scene understanding, reconstruction, and various computer vision and robotics tasks. Recent advancements in implicit deformation networks for non-rigid registration have significantly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Mingyang Zhao , Gaofeng Meng , Dong-Ming Yan

Point clouds have become an increasingly important representation for 3D medical imaging, offering a compact, surface-preserving alternative to traditional voxel or mesh-based approaches. Recent advances in deep learning have enabled rapid…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-04 Tongxu Zhang , Zhiming Liang , Bei Wang

Point Cloud Registration (PCR) is a critical and challenging task in computer vision. One of the primary difficulties in PCR is identifying salient and meaningful points that exhibit consistent semantic and geometric properties across…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Qianliang Wu , Yaqing Ding , Lei Luo , Haobo Jiang , Shuo Gu , Chuanwei Zhou , Jin Xie , Jian Yang

Deformable image registration aims to precisely align medical images from different modalities or times. Traditional deep learning methods, while effective, often lack interpretability, real-time observability and adjustment capacity during…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Yongtai Zhuo , Yiqing Shen

Image registration techniques usually assume that the images to be registered are of a certain type (e.g. single- vs. multi-modal, 2D vs. 3D, rigid vs. deformable) and there lacks a general method that can work for data under all…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-28 Quang Luong Nhat Nguyen , Ruiming Cao , Laura Waller

Recently MLP-based methods have shown strong performance in point cloud analysis. Simple MLP architectures are able to learn geometric features in local point groups yet fail to model long-range dependencies directly. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Xingyilang Yin , Xi Yang , Liangchen Liu , Nannan Wang , Xinbo Gao

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

Extracting robust and general 3D local features is key to downstream tasks such as point cloud registration and reconstruction. Existing learning-based local descriptors are either sensitive to rotation transformations, or rely on classical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-12 Sheng Ao , Qingyong Hu , Bo Yang , Andrew Markham , Yulan Guo

We propose a surface fitting method for unstructured 3D point clouds. This method, called DeepFit, incorporates a neural network to learn point-wise weights for weighted least squares polynomial surface fitting. The learned weights act as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-25 Yizhak Ben-Shabat , Stephen Gould

Imaging modalities provide clinicians with real-time visualization of anatomical regions of interest (ROI) for the purpose of minimally invasive surgery. During the procedure, low-resolution image data are acquired and registered with…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-11-10 Haolin Liu , Ye Han , Daniel Emerson , Houriyeh Majditehran , Qi Wang , Yoed Rabin , Levent Burak Kara

Deformable medical image registration plays an important role in clinical diagnosis and treatment. Recently, the deep learning (DL) based image registration methods have been widely investigated and showed excellent performance in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-18 Yibo Wang , Wen Qian , Xuming Zhang

Due to their complex spatial structure and diverse geometric features, achieving high-precision and robust point cloud registration for complex Die Castings has been a significant challenge in the die-casting industry. Existing point cloud…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Yu Du , Yu Song , Ce Guo , Xiaojing Tian , Dong Liu , Ming Cong

Many registration problems are ill-posed in homogeneous or noisy regions, and dense voxel-wise decoders can be unnecessarily high-dimensional. A sparse control-point parameterisation provides a compact, smooth deformation representation…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-19 Wen Yan , Qianye Yang , Yipei Wang , Shonit Punwani , Mark Emberton , Vasilis Stavrinides , Yipeng Hu , Dean Barratt

Deformable image registration (DIR) is essential for many image-guided therapies. Recently, deep learning approaches have gained substantial popularity and success in DIR. Most deep learning approaches use the so-called mono-stream…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-08 Zhe Xu , Jie Luo , Jiangpeng Yan , Xiu Li , Jagadeesan Jayender

Recent advances in point cloud In-Context Learning (ICL) have demonstrated strong multitask capabilities. Existing approaches typically adopt a Masked Point Modeling (MPM)-based paradigm for point cloud ICL. However, MPM-based methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Chengxing Lin , Jinhong Deng , Yinjie Lei , Wen Li

As a fundamental yet challenging problem in intelligent transportation systems, point cloud registration attracts vast attention and has been attained with various deep learning-based algorithms. The unsupervised registration algorithms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Dongrui Liu , Chuanchuan Chen , Changqing Xu , Robert Qiu , Lei Chu

Non-rigid point cloud registration is a crucial task in computer vision. Evaluating a non-rigid point cloud registration method requires a dataset with challenges such as large deformation levels, noise, outliers, and incompleteness.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Sara Monji-Azad , Marvin Kinz , Claudia Scherl , David Männle , Jürgen Hesser , Nikolas Löw