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An unsupervised point cloud registration method, called salient points analysis (SPA), is proposed in this work. The proposed SPA method can register two point clouds effectively using only a small subset of salient points. It first applies…
Estimating the rigid transformation between two LiDAR scans through putative 3D correspondences is a typical point cloud registration paradigm. Current 3D feature matching approaches commonly lead to numerous outlier correspondences, making…
We propose a robust method for point cloud registration that can handle both unknown scales and extreme outlier ratios. Our method, dubbed PCR-99, uses a deterministic 3-point sampling approach with two novel mechanisms that significantly…
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…
Registration is a basic yet crucial task in point cloud processing. In correspondence-based point cloud registration, matching correspondences by point feature techniques may lead to an extremely high outlier ratio. Current methods still…
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.…
Point Cloud Registration (PCR) estimates the relative rigid transformation between two point clouds of the same scene. Despite significant progress with learning-based approaches, existing methods still face challenges when the overlapping…
Registration algorithms, such as Iterative Closest Point (ICP), have proven effective in mobile robot localization algorithms over the last decades. However, they are susceptible to failure when a robot sustains extreme velocities and…
Rotation search and point cloud registration are two fundamental problems in robotics and computer vision, which aim to estimate the rotation and the transformation between the 3D vector sets and point clouds, respectively. Due to the…
Aligning partial views of a scene into a single whole is essential to understanding one's environment and is a key component of numerous robotics tasks such as SLAM and SfM. Recent approaches have proposed end-to-end systems that can…
In this paper, we present a new method for the multiview registration of point cloud. Previous multiview registration methods rely on exhaustive pairwise registration to construct a densely-connected pose graph and apply Iteratively…
Stochastic and (distributionally) robust optimization problems often become computationally challenging as the number of scenarios or data points increases. Scenario reduction is therefore a key technique for improving tractability. We…
Over the past two decades, we have seen an exponentially increased amount of point clouds collected with irregular shapes in various areas. Motivated by the importance of solid modeling for point clouds, we develop a novel and efficient…
In robotic inspection, joint registration of multiple point clouds is an essential technique for estimating the transformation relationships between measured parts, such as multiple blades in a propeller. However, the presence of noise and…
The Discriminative Optimization (DO) algorithm has been proved much successful in 3D point cloud registration. In the original DO, the feature (descriptor) of two point cloud was defined as a histogram, and the element of histogram…
For both indoor and outdoor environments, we propose an efficient and novel method for different scales and sparse 3D point clouds registration that cannot be handled by the current popular ICP approaches. Our algorithm efficiently detects…
In robotic inspection of aviation parts, achieving accurate pairwise point cloud registration between scanned and model data is essential. However, noise and outliers generated in robotic scanned data can compromise registration accuracy.…
Estimating the rigid transformation with 6 degrees of freedom based on a putative 3D correspondence set is a crucial procedure in point cloud registration. Existing correspondence identification methods usually lead to large outlier ratios…
We propose a novel method for semi-supervised learning (SSL) based on data-driven distributionally robust optimization (DRO) using optimal transport metrics. Our proposed method enhances generalization error by using the unlabeled data to…
Global registration is a fundamental task that estimates the relative pose between two viewpoints of 3D point clouds. However, there are two issues that degrade the performance of global registration in LiDAR SLAM: one is the sparsity issue…