English
Related papers

Related papers: LiDAR Registration with Visual Foundation Models

200 papers

LiDAR and photogrammetry are active and passive remote sensing techniques for point cloud acquisition, respectively, offering complementary advantages and heterogeneous. Due to the fundamental differences in sensing mechanisms, spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Chen Wang , Yanfeng Gu , Xian Li

Visual localization is to estimate the 6-DOF camera pose of a query image in a 3D reference map. We extract keypoints from the reference image and generate a 3D reference map with 3D reconstruction of the keypoints in advance. We emphasize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Masahiko Tsuji , Hitoshi Niigaki , Ryuichi Tanida

Cross-modal data registration has long been a critical task in computer vision, with extensive applications in autonomous driving and robotics. Accurate and robust registration methods are essential for aligning data from different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Yuanchao Yue , Hui Yuan , Qinglong Miao , Xiaolong Mao , Raouf Hamzaoui , Peter Eisert

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

Spinning LiDAR data are prevalent for 3D vision tasks. Since LiDAR data is presented in the form of point clouds, expensive 3D operations are usually required. This paper revisits spinning LiDAR scan formation and presents a cylindrical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Wei Dong , Kwonyoung Ryu , Michael Kaess , Jaesik Park

The primary requirement for cross-modal data fusion is the precise alignment of data from different sensors. However, the calibration between LiDAR point clouds and camera images is typically time-consuming and needs external calibration…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Yuanchao Yue , Hui Yuan , Zhengxin Li , Shuai Li , Wei Zhang

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

Learning-based monocular visual odometry (VO) poses robustness, generalization, and efficiency challenges in robotics. Recent advances in visual foundation models, such as DINOv2, have improved robustness and generalization in various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Maulana Bisyir Azhari , David Hyunchul Shim

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

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Jiuming Liu , Guangming Wang , Zhe Liu , Chaokang Jiang , Haoang Li , Mengmeng Liu , Tianchen Deng , Marc Pollefeys , Michael Ying Yang , Hesheng Wang

Registration of unmanned aerial vehicle laser scanning (ULS) and ground light detection and ranging (LiDAR) point clouds in forests is critical to create a detailed representation of a forest structure and an accurate inversion of forest…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Jie Shao , Wei Yao , Peng Wan , Lei Luo , Jiaxin Lyu , Wuming Zhang

LiDAR sensors are a key modality for 3D perception, yet they are typically designed independently of downstream tasks such as point cloud registration. Conventional registration operates on pre-acquired datasets with fixed LiDAR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Siddhant Katyan , Marc-André Gardner , Jean-François Lalonde

The motivation of this paper is to address the problem of registering airborne LiDAR data and optical aerial or satellite imagery acquired from different platforms, at different times, with different points of view and levels of detail. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Thanh Huy Nguyen , Sylvie Daniel , Didier Gueriot , Christophe Sintes , Jean-Marc Le Caillec

LiDAR sensors are essential for autonomous systems, yet LiDAR fiducial markers (LFMs) lag behind visual fiducial markers (VFMs) in adoption and utility. Bridging this gap is vital for robotics and computer vision but challenging due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Yibo Liu

LiDAR mapping is important yet challenging in self-driving and mobile robotics. To tackle such a global point cloud registration problem, DeepMapping converts the complex map estimation into a self-supervised training of simple deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Chao Chen , Xinhao Liu , Yiming Li , Li Ding , Chen Feng

Point cloud data from 3D LiDAR sensors are one of the most crucial sensor modalities for versatile safety-critical applications such as self-driving vehicles. Since the annotations of point cloud data is an expensive and time-consuming…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-23 Khaled Saleh , Ahmed Abobakr , Mohammed Attia , Julie Iskander , Darius Nahavandi , Mohammed Hossny

LiDAR-based localization serves as a critical component in autonomous systems, yet existing approaches face persistent challenges in balancing repeatability, accuracy, and environmental adaptability. Traditional point cloud registration…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Haoxuan Jiang , Peicong Qian , Yusen Xie , Xiaocong Li , Ming Liu , Jun Ma

With the development of numerous 3D sensing technologies, object registration on cross-source point cloud has aroused researchers' interests. When the point clouds are captured from different kinds of sensors, there are large and different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-25 Xiaoshui Huang , Jian Zhang , Qiang Wu , Lixin Fan , Chun Yuan

Accurate registration of 2D imagery with point clouds is a key technology for image-LiDAR point cloud fusion, camera to laser scanner calibration and camera localization. Despite continuous improvements, automatic registration of 2D and 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-13 Huai Yu , Weikun Zhen , Wen Yang , Sebastian Scherer

Feature Descriptors and Detectors are two main components of feature-based point cloud registration. However, little attention has been drawn to the explicit representation of local and global semantics in the learning of descriptors and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Canhui Tang , Yiheng Li , Shaoyi Du , Guofa Wang , Zhiqiang Tian

Point cloud registration involves aligning one point cloud with another or with a three-dimensional (3D) model, enabling the integration of multimodal data into a unified representation. This is essential in applications such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Mehdi Maboudi , Said Harb , Jackson Ferrao , Kourosh Khoshelham , Yelda Turkan , Karam Mawas