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Category-level object pose and shape estimation from a single depth image has recently drawn research attention due to its potential utility for tasks such as robotics manipulation. The task is particularly challenging because the three…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Yihao Zhang , Harpreet S. Sawhney , John J. Leonard

In this paper, we propose a way to model the resilience of the Iterative Closest Point (ICP) algorithm in the presence of corrupted measurements. In the context of autonomous vehicles, certifying the safety of the localization process poses…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Johann Laconte , Daniil Lisus , Timothy D. Barfoot

Matching 3D rigid point clouds in complex environments robustly and accurately is still a core technique used in many applications. This paper proposes a new architecture combining error estimation from sample covariances and dual global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-28 Can Pu , Nanbo Li , Robert B Fisher

A 3D point cloud is often synthesized from depth measurements collected by sensors at different viewpoints. The acquired measurements are typically both coarse in precision and corrupted by noise. To improve quality, previous works denoise…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-12 Xue Zhang , Gene Cheung , Jiahao Pang , Dong Tian

In this paper, we introduce PCR-CG: a novel 3D point cloud registration module explicitly embedding the color signals into the geometry representation. Different from previous methods that only use geometry representation, our module is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Yu Zhang , Junle Yu , Xiaolin Huang , Wenhui Zhou , Ji Hou

Multiview point cloud registration is a fundamental task for constructing globally consistent 3D models. Existing approaches typically rely on feature extraction and data association across multiple point clouds; however, these processes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Yiran Zhou , Yingyu Wang , Shoudong Huang , Liang Zhao

We present a novel, effective method for global point cloud registration problems by geometric topology. Based on many point cloud pairwise registration methods (e.g ICP), we focus on the problem of accumulated error for the composition of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Yuxue Ren , Baowei Jiang , Wei Chen , Na Lei , Xianfeng David Gu

Point cloud registration aims to provide estimated transformations to align point clouds, which plays a crucial role in pose estimation of various navigation systems, such as surgical guidance systems and autonomous vehicles. Despite the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Geng Li , Haozhi Cao , Mingyang Liu , Shenghai Yuan , Jianfei Yang

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.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Huu Le , Thanh-Toan Do , Tuan Hoang , Ngai-Man Cheung

Intrinsic isometric shape matching has become the standard approach for pose invariant correspondence estimation among deformable shapes. Most existing approaches assume global consistency, i.e., the metric structure of the whole manifold…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-01-14 Alan Brunton , Michael Wand , Stefanie Wuhrer , Hans-Peter Seidel , Tino Weinkauf

The performance of surface registration relies heavily on the metric used for the alignment error between the source and target shapes. Traditionally, such a metric is based on the point-to-point or point-to-plane distance from the points…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Zhi Deng , Yuxin Yao , Bailin Deng , Juyong Zhang

Point cloud analysis is an area of increasing interest due to the development of 3D sensors that are able to rapidly measure the depth of scenes accurately. Unfortunately, applying deep learning techniques to perform point cloud analysis is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Junming Zhang , Ming-Yuan Yu , Ram Vasudevan , Matthew Johnson-Roberson

Point cloud segmentation and classification are some of the primary tasks in 3D computer vision with applications ranging from augmented reality to robotics. However, processing point clouds using deep learning-based algorithms is quite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Aadesh Desai , Saagar Parikh , Seema Kumari , Shanmuganathan Raman

Point cloud registration, a fundamental task in 3D vision, has achieved remarkable success with learning-based methods in outdoor environments. Unsupervised outdoor point cloud registration methods have recently emerged to circumvent the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Kezheng Xiong , Haoen Xiang , Qingshan Xu , Chenglu Wen , Siqi Shen , Jonathan Li , Cheng Wang

Point clouds obtained from photogrammetry are noisy and incomplete models of reality. We propose an evolutionary optimization methodology that is able to approximate the underlying object geometry on such point clouds. This approach assumes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Jean F. Liénard

Learning from bounding-boxes annotations has shown great potential in weakly-supervised 3D point cloud instance segmentation. However, we observed that existing methods would suffer severe performance degradation with perturbed bounding box…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Qingtao Yu , Heming Du , Chen Liu , Xin Yu

Point cloud registration (PCR) is crucial for many downstream tasks, such as simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) and object tracking. This makes detecting and quantifying registration misalignment, i.e., PCR quality validation, an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Shipeng Liu , Ziliang Xiong , Khac-Hoang Ngo , Per-Erik Forssén

The ICP registration algorithm has been a preferred method for LiDAR-based robot localization for nearly a decade. However, even in modern SLAM solutions, ICP can degrade and become unreliable in geometrically ill-conditioned environments.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Turcan Tuna , Julian Nubert , Patrick Pfreundschuh , Cesar Cadena , Shehryar Khattak , Marco Hutter

Point clouds are a very efficient way to represent volumetric data in medical imaging. First, they do not occupy resources for empty spaces and therefore can avoid trade-offs between resolution and field-of-view for voxel-based 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Mattias Paul Heinrich

The unstructured and irregular nature of points poses a significant challenge for accurate point cloud quality assessment (PCQA), particularly in establishing accurate perceptual feature correspondence. To tackle this, we propose the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Zhang Chen , Shuai Wan , Yuezhe Zhang , Siyu Ren , Fuzheng Yang , Junhui Hou