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Large-scale scene point cloud registration with limited overlap is a challenging task due to computational load and constrained data acquisition. To tackle these issues, we propose a point cloud registration method, MT-PCR, based on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Yilong Wu , Yifan Duan , Yuxi Chen , Xinran Zhang , Yedong Shen , Jianmin Ji , Yanyong Zhang , Lu Zhang

Establishing reliable correspondences is crucial for all registration tasks, including 2D image registration, 3D point cloud registration, and 2D-3D image-to-point cloud registration. However, these tasks are often complicated by challenges…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Qianliang Wu , Haobo Jiang , Yaqing Ding , Lei Luo , Jun Li , Jin Xie , Xiaojun Wu , Jian Yang

Registering point clouds of forest environments is an essential prerequisite for LiDAR applications in precision forestry. State-of-the-art methods for forest point cloud registration require the extraction of individual tree attributes,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Xufei Wang , Zexin Yang , Xiaojun Cheng , Jantien Stoter , Wenbing Xu , Zhenlun Wu , Liangliang Nan

Multi-instance point cloud registration is the problem of estimating multiple poses of source point cloud instances within a target point cloud. Solving this problem is challenging since inlier correspondences of one instance constitute…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Mingzhi Yuan , Zhihao Li , Qiuye Jin , Xinrong Chen , Manning Wang

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

Point cloud registration is a fundamental problem in 3D computer vision. In this paper, we cast point cloud registration into a planning problem in reinforcement learning, which can seek the transformation between the source and target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Haobo Jiang , Jin Xie , Jianjun Qian , Jian Yang

Constructing precise global maps is a key task in robotics and is required for localization, surveying, monitoring, or constructing digital twins. To build accurate maps, data from mobile 3D LiDAR sensors is often used. Mapping requires…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Louis Wiesmann , Elias Marks , Saurabh Gupta , Tiziano Guadagnino , Jens Behley , Cyrill Stachniss

Probabilistic 3D point cloud registration methods have shown competitive performance in overcoming noise, outliers, and density variations. However, registering point cloud pairs in the case of partial overlap is still a challenge. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Guofeng Mei , Fabio Poiesi , Cristiano Saltori , Jian Zhang , Elisa Ricci , Nicu Sebe

Point cloud registration refers to the problem of finding the rigid transformation that aligns two given point clouds, and is crucial for many applications in robotics and computer vision. The main insight of this paper is that we can…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Richard Cheng , Chavdar Papozov , Dan Helmick , Mark Tjersland

In this paper, we propose a novel learning-based pipeline for partially overlapping 3D point cloud registration. The proposed model includes an iterative distance-aware similarity matrix convolution module to incorporate information from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-07 Jiahao Li , Changhao Zhang , Ziyao Xu , Hangning Zhou , Chi Zhang

This research focuses on visual industrial inspection by evaluating point clouds and multi-point cloud matching methods. We also introduce a synthetic dataset for quantitative evaluation of registration method and various distance metrics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Ulugbek Alibekov , Vanessa Staderini , Philipp Schneider , Doris Antensteiner

Recent advances in computer vision and deep learning have shown promising performance in estimating rigid/similarity transformation between unregistered point clouds of complex objects and scenes. However, their performances are mostly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Ningli Xu , Rongjun Qin , Shuang Song

Robust and discriminative feature learning is critical for high-quality point cloud registration. However, existing deep learning-based methods typically rely on Euclidean neighborhood-based strategies for feature extraction, which struggle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Shuyuan Lin , Wenwu Peng , Junjie Huang , Qiang Qi , Miaohui Wang , Jian Weng

We propose a method for speeding up a 3D point cloud registration through a cascading feature extraction. The current approach with the highest accuracy is realized by iteratively executing feature extraction and registration using deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Yoichiro Hisadome , Yusuke Matsui

To eliminate the problems of large dimensional differences, big semantic gap, and mutual interference caused by hybrid features, in this paper, we propose a novel Multi-Features Guidance Network for partial-to-partial point cloud…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Hongyuan Wang , Xiang Liu , Wen Kang , Zhiqiang Yan , Bingwen Wang , Qianhao Ning

Robotic manipulation systems benefit from complementary sensing modalities, where each provides unique environmental information. Point clouds capture detailed geometric structure, while RGB images provide rich semantic context. Current…

We present a new method for real-time non-rigid dense correspondence between point clouds based on structured shape construction. Our method, termed Deep Point Correspondence (DPC), requires a fraction of the training data compared to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Itai Lang , Dvir Ginzburg , Shai Avidan , Dan Raviv

We present SyNoRiM, a novel way to jointly register multiple non-rigid shapes by synchronizing the maps relating learned functions defined on the point clouds. Even though the ability to process non-rigid shapes is critical in various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Jiahui Huang , Tolga Birdal , Zan Gojcic , Leonidas J. Guibas , Shi-Min Hu

With the development of 3D sensing technologies, point clouds have attracted increasing attention in a variety of applications for 3D object representation, such as autonomous driving, 3D immersive tele-presence and heritage reconstruction.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Junkun Qi , Wei Hu , Zongming Guo

Point cloud registration approaches often fail when the overlap between point clouds is low due to noisy point correspondences. This work introduces a novel cross-attention mechanism tailored for Transformer-based architectures that tackles…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Weijie Wang , Guofeng Mei , Jian Zhang , Nicu Sebe , Bruno Lepri , Fabio Poiesi