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  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,714 Views
16 Pages

Robust Point Cloud Registration Network for Complex Conditions

  • Ruidong Hao,
  • Zhongwei Wei,
  • Xu He,
  • Kaifeng Zhu,
  • Jiawei He,
  • Jun Wang,
  • Muyu Li,
  • Lei Zhang,
  • Zhuang Lv and
  • Qiwen Zhang
  • + 1 author

15 December 2023

Point cloud registration is widely used in autonomous driving, SLAM, and 3D reconstruction, and it aims to align point clouds from different viewpoints or poses under the same coordinate system. However, point cloud registration is challenging in com...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,594 Views
22 Pages

An Improved Large Planar Point Cloud Registration Algorithm

  • Haocheng Geng,
  • Ping Song and
  • Wuyang Zhang

The traditional Iterative Closest Point (ICP) algorithm often suffers from low computational accuracy and efficiency in certain scenarios. It is highly sensitive to the initial pose, has a poor ability to resist interference, and frequently becomes t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
2,862 Views
25 Pages

Coarse Point Cloud Registration Based on Variational Functionals

  • Artyom Makovetskii,
  • Sergei Voronin,
  • Vitaly Kober and
  • Alexei Voronin

22 December 2022

Point cloud collection forming a 3D scene typically uses information from multiple data scans. The common approach is to register the point cloud pairs consequentially using a variant of the iterative closest point (ICP) algorithm, but most versions...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,666 Views
23 Pages

A Point Cloud Registration Framework with Color Information Integration

  • Tianyu Han,
  • Ruijie Zhang,
  • Jiangming Kan,
  • Ruifang Dong,
  • Xixuan Zhao and
  • Shun Yao

20 February 2024

Point cloud registration serves as a critical tool for constructing 3D environmental maps. Both geometric and color information are instrumental in differentiating diverse point features. Specifically, when points appear similar based solely on geome...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,148 Views
28 Pages

Uniaxial Partitioning Strategy for Efficient Point Cloud Registration

  • Polycarpo Souza Neto,
  • José Marques Soares and
  • George André Pereira Thé

9 April 2022

In 3D reconstruction applications, an important issue is the matching of point clouds corresponding to different perspectives of a particular object or scene, which is addressed by the use of variants of the Iterative Closest Point (ICP) algorithm. I...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
6,424 Views
14 Pages

Optimization of the 3D Point Cloud Registration Algorithm Based on FPFH Features

  • Ruiyang Sun,
  • Enzhong Zhang,
  • Deqiang Mu,
  • Shijun Ji,
  • Ziqiang Zhang,
  • Hongwei Liu and
  • Zheng Fu

27 February 2023

In order to solve the problem of the traditional iterative closest point algorithm (ICPA), which requires a high initial position of point cloud and improves the speed and accuracy of point cloud registration, a new registration method is proposed in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,873 Views
11 Pages

A Depth-Based Weighted Point Cloud Registration for Indoor Scene

  • Shuntao Liu,
  • Dedong Gao,
  • Peng Wang,
  • Xifeng Guo,
  • Jing Xu and
  • Du-Xin Liu

24 October 2018

Point cloud registration plays a key role in three-dimensional scene reconstruction, and determines the effect of reconstruction. The iterative closest point algorithm is widely used for point cloud registration. To improve the accuracy of point clou...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,817 Views
16 Pages

23 October 2021

In the last stage of colored point cloud registration, depth measurement errors hinder the achievement of accurate and visually plausible alignments. Recently, an algorithm has been proposed to extend the Iterative Closest Point (ICP) algorithm to re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,770 Views
15 Pages

Fast Point Cloud Registration Method with Incorporation of RGB Image Information

  • Haiyuan Cao,
  • Deng Chen,
  • Zhaohui Zheng,
  • Yanduo Zhang,
  • Huabing Zhou and
  • Jianping Ju

20 April 2023

Point cloud registration has a wide range of applications in 3D reconstruction, pose estimation, intelligent driving, heritage conservation, and digital cities. The traditional iterative closest point (ICP) algorithm has strong dependence on the init...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,195 Views
14 Pages

15 January 2023

Point cloud registration is a crucial preprocessing step for point cloud data analysis and applications. Nowadays, many deep-learning-based methods have been proposed to improve the registration quality. These methods always use the sum of two cross-...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
7,401 Views
20 Pages

Low Overlapping Point Cloud Registration Using Line Features Detection

  • Miloš Prokop,
  • Salman Ahmed Shaikh and
  • Kyoung-Sook Kim

23 December 2019

Modern robotic exploratory strategies assume multi-agent cooperation that raises a need for an effective exchange of acquired scans of the environment with the absence of a reliable global positioning system. In such situations, agents compare the sc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
7,276 Views
19 Pages

Hierarchical Optimization of 3D Point Cloud Registration

  • Huikai Liu,
  • Yue Zhang,
  • Linjian Lei,
  • Hui Xie,
  • Yan Li and
  • Shengli Sun

7 December 2020

Rigid registration of 3D point clouds is the key technology in robotics and computer vision. Most commonly, the iterative closest point (ICP) and its variants are employed for this task. These methods assume that the closest point is the correspondin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,443 Views
13 Pages

LIDAR Point Cloud Registration for Sensing and Reconstruction of Unstructured Terrain

  • Qingyuan Zhu,
  • Jinjin Wu,
  • Huosheng Hu,
  • Chunsheng Xiao and
  • Wei Chen

21 November 2018

When 3D laser scanning (LIDAR) is used for navigation of autonomous vehicles operated on unstructured terrain, it is necessary to register the acquired point cloud and accurately perform point cloud reconstruction of the terrain in time. This paper p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,256 Views
25 Pages

24 December 2019

Three-dimensional (3D) point cloud registration is an important step in three-dimensional (3D) model reconstruction or 3D mapping. Currently, there are many methods for point cloud registration, but these methods are not able to simultaneously solve...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,499 Views
18 Pages

25 July 2019

Most 3D point cloud watermarking techniques apply Principal Component Analysis (PCA) to protect the watermark against affine transformation attacks. Unfortunately, they fail in the case of cropping and random point removal attacks. In this work, an a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,088 Views
15 Pages

7 April 2025

This paper introduces a method that can enhance the accuracy and efficiency of point cloud data registration. This method selects the centroid of the point cloud as the feature point and uses the projected distance of this feature point within the dy...

  • Article
  • Open Access
812 Views
24 Pages

Curvature-Aware Point-Pair Signatures for Robust Unbalanced Point Cloud Registration

  • Xinhang Hu,
  • Zhao Zeng,
  • Jiwei Deng,
  • Guangshuai Wang,
  • Jiaqi Yang and
  • Siwen Quan

10 October 2025

Existing point cloud registration methods can effectively handle large-scale and partially overlapping point cloud pairs. However, registering unbalanced point cloud pairs with significant disparities in spatial extent and point density remains a cha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,441 Views
16 Pages

16 May 2021

When measuring surface deformation, because the overlap of point clouds before and after deformation is small and the accuracy of the initial value of point cloud registration cannot be guaranteed, traditional point cloud registration methods cannot...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
2,538 Views
17 Pages

24 August 2024

Three-dimensional point cloud registration is a critical task in 3D perception for sensors that aims to determine the optimal alignment between two point clouds by finding the best transformation. Existing methods like RANSAC and its variants often f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
5,314 Views
18 Pages

Self-Supervised Point Set Local Descriptors for Point Cloud Registration

  • Yijun Yuan,
  • Dorit Borrmann,
  • Jiawei Hou,
  • Yuexin Ma,
  • Andreas Nüchter and
  • Sören Schwertfeger

12 January 2021

Descriptors play an important role in point cloud registration. The current state-of-the-art resorts to the high regression capability of deep learning. However, recent deep learning-based descriptors require different levels of annotation and select...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,520 Views
20 Pages

Research on the Improved ICP Algorithm for LiDAR Point Cloud Registration

  • Honglei Yuan,
  • Guangyun Li,
  • Li Wang and
  • Xiangfei Li

1 August 2025

Over three decades of research has been undertaken on point cloud registration algorithms, resulting in mature theoretical frameworks and methodologies. However, among the numerous registration techniques used, the impact of point cloud scanning qual...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,725 Views
17 Pages

3 June 2024

Traditional iterative closest point (ICP) registration algorithms are sensitive to initial positions and easily fall into the trap of locally optimal solutions. To address this problem, a point cloud registration algorithm is put forward in this stud...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,835 Views
23 Pages

A New Approach toward Corner Detection for Use in Point Cloud Registration

  • Wei Wang,
  • Yi Zhang,
  • Gengyu Ge,
  • Huan Yang and
  • Yue Wang

1 July 2023

For this study, a new point cloud alignment method is proposed for extracting corner points and aligning them at the geometric level. It can align point clouds that have low overlap and is more robust to outliers and noise. First, planes are extracte...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,727 Views
20 Pages

Fast Registration Algorithm for Laser Point Cloud Based on 3D-SIFT Features

  • Lihong Yang,
  • Shunqin Xu,
  • Zhiqiang Yang,
  • Jia He,
  • Lei Gong,
  • Wanjun Wang,
  • Yao Li,
  • Liguo Wang and
  • Zhili Chen

22 January 2025

In response to the issues of slow convergence and the tendency to fall into local optima in traditional iterative closest point (ICP) point cloud registration algorithms, this study presents a fast registration algorithm for laser point clouds based...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,860 Views
12 Pages

Large Common Plansets-4-Points Congruent Sets for Point Cloud Registration

  • Cedrique Fotsing,
  • Nafissetou Nziengam and
  • Christophe Bobda

Point cloud registration combines multiple point cloud data sets collected from different positions using the same or different devices to form a single point cloud within a single coordinate system. Point cloud registration is usually achieved throu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,670 Views
13 Pages

Color Point Cloud Registration Algorithm Based on Hue

  • Siyu Ren,
  • Xiaodong Chen,
  • Huaiyu Cai,
  • Yi Wang,
  • Haitao Liang and
  • Haotian Li

11 June 2021

ICP is a well-known method for point cloud registration but it only uses geometric information to do this, which will result in bad results in some similar structures. Adding color information when registering will improve the performance. However, c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,229 Views
17 Pages

Point Cloud Registration Based on Local Variation of Surface Keypoints

  • Juan Zhu,
  • Zongwei Huang,
  • Xiaofeng Yue and
  • Zeyuan Liu

Keypoint detection plays a pivotal role in three-dimensional computer vision, with widespread applications in improving registration precision and efficiency. However, current keypoint detection methods often suffer from poor robustness and low discr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
7,642 Views
18 Pages

Comparison of Point Cloud Registration Techniques on Scanned Physical Objects

  • Menthy Denayer,
  • Joris De Winter,
  • Evandro Bernardes,
  • Bram Vanderborght and
  • Tom Verstraten

27 March 2024

This paper presents a comparative analysis of six prominent registration techniques for solving CAD model alignment problems. Unlike the typical approach of assessing registration algorithms with synthetic datasets, our study utilizes point clouds ge...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,504 Views
21 Pages

Sparse-to-Dense Point Cloud Registration Based on Rotation-Invariant Features

  • Tianjiao Ma,
  • Guangliang Han,
  • Yongzhi Chu and
  • Hong Ren

6 July 2024

Point cloud registration is a critical problem because it is the basis of many 3D vision tasks. With the popularity of deep learning, many scholars have focused on leveraging deep neural networks to address the point cloud registration problem. Howev...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,094 Views
22 Pages

A Point Cloud Registration Algorithm Based on Weighting Strategy for 3D Indoor Spaces

  • Wenshan Lv,
  • Haifeng Zhang,
  • Weiren Chen,
  • Xiaoming Li and
  • Shengtian Sang

17 June 2024

Point cloud registration is a technology that aligns point cloud data from different viewpoints by computing coordinate transformations to integrate them into a specified coordinate system. Many cutting-edge fields, including autonomous driving, indu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,027 Views
13 Pages

Fast Point Cloud Registration Algorithm Based on 3DNPFH Descriptor

  • Bo You,
  • Hongyu Chen,
  • Jiayu Li,
  • Changfeng Li and
  • Hui Chen

Although researchers have investigated a variety of approaches to the development of three-dimensional (3D) point cloud matching algorithms, the results have been limited by low accuracy and slow speed when registering large numbers of point cloud da...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,216 Views
19 Pages

Efficient Rock Mass Point Cloud Registration Based on Local Invariants

  • Yunbiao Wang,
  • Jun Xiao,
  • Lupeng Liu and
  • Ying Wang

15 April 2021

Point cloud registration is one of the basic research hotspots in the field of 3D reconstruction. Although many previous studies have made great progress, the registration of rock point clouds remains an ongoing challenge, due to the complex surface,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,069 Views
10 Pages

PTRNet: Global Feature and Local Feature Encoding for Point Cloud Registration

  • Cuixia Li,
  • Shanshan Yang,
  • Li Shi,
  • Yue Liu and
  • Yinghao Li

8 February 2022

Existing end-to-end cloud registration methods are often inefficient and susceptible to noise. We propose an end-to-end point cloud registration network model, Point Transformer for Registration Network (PTRNet), that considers local and global featu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
7,287 Views
20 Pages

9 August 2019

This paper develops a registration architecture for the purpose of estimating relative pose including the rotation and the translation of an object in terms of a model in 3-D space based on 3-D point clouds captured by a 3-D camera. Particularly, thi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,775 Views
28 Pages

Point Cloud Registration Method Based on Geometric Constraint and Transformation Evaluation

  • Chuanli Kang,
  • Chongming Geng,
  • Zitao Lin,
  • Sai Zhang,
  • Siyao Zhang and
  • Shiwei Wang

14 March 2024

Existing point-to-point registration methods often suffer from inaccuracies caused by erroneous matches and noisy correspondences, leading to significant decreases in registration accuracy and efficiency. To address these challenges, this paper prese...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,585 Views
21 Pages

20 January 2025

Rock-mass point-cloud registration is a critical yet challenging task in the fields of geology and engineering. Currently, the lack of dedicated datasets for rock-mass point-cloud registration significantly limits the development and application of a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,621 Views
32 Pages

Nonrigid Point Cloud Registration Using Piecewise Tricubic Polynomials as Transformation Model

  • Philipp Glira,
  • Christoph Weidinger,
  • Johannes Otepka-Schremmer,
  • Camillo Ressl,
  • Norbert Pfeifer and
  • Michaela Haberler-Weber

13 November 2023

Nonrigid registration presents a significant challenge in the domain of point cloud processing. The general objective is to model complex nonrigid deformations between two or more overlapping point clouds. Applications are diverse and span multiple r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,166 Views
11 Pages

6 February 2023

This paper proposes a heuristic reward reinforcement learning framework for point cloud registration. As an essential step of many 3D computer vision tasks such as object recognition and 3D reconstruction, point cloud registration has been well studi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,731 Views
28 Pages

5 September 2025

In the field of Autonomous Surface Vehicle (ASV), research on advanced perception technologies is crucial for enhancing their intelligence and autonomy. In particular, laser point cloud registration technology serves as a foundation for improving the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,367 Views
14 Pages

The environment of ski resorts is usually complex and changeable, and there are few characteristic objects in the background, which creates many difficulties for the registration of ski-resort point cloud datasets. However, in the traditional iterati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
7,094 Views
28 Pages

Light detection and ranging (LiDAR) data systems mounted on a moving or stationary platform provide 3D point cloud data for various purposes. In applications where the interested area or object needs to be measured twice or more with a shift, precise...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,930 Views
12 Pages

20 June 2023

Point cloud registration plays a crucial role in 3D mapping and localization. Urban scene point clouds pose significant challenges for registration due to their large data volume, similar scenarios, and dynamic objects. Estimating the location by ins...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,900 Views
22 Pages

2 September 2025

To address the problem of point-cloud registration accuracy degradation or even failure in traditional Voxelized GICP(VGICP) under bad initial pose due to improper voxel resolution settings, this paper proposes an Adaptive Resolution VGICP (AR-VGICP)...

  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,797 Views
14 Pages

MSPR-Net: A Multi-Scale Features Based Point Cloud Registration Network

  • Jinjin Yu,
  • Fenghao Zhang,
  • Zhi Chen and
  • Liman Liu

29 September 2022

Point-cloud registration is a fundamental task in computer vision. However, most point clouds are partially overlapping, corrupted by noise and comprised of indistinguishable surfaces, especially for complexly distributed outdoor LiDAR point clouds,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,843 Views
15 Pages

Robust Point Cloud Registration for Aircraft Engine Pipeline Systems

  • Yusong Liu,
  • Zhihai Wang,
  • Jichuan Huang and
  • Liyan Zhang

24 May 2024

Aircraft engine systems are composed of numerous pipelines. It is crucial to regularly inspect these pipelines to detect any damages or failures that could potentially lead to serious accidents. The inspection process typically involves capturing com...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,173 Views
22 Pages

Pairwise Registration Algorithm for Large-Scale Planar Point Cloud Used in Flatness Measurement

  • Zichao Shu,
  • Songxiao Cao,
  • Qing Jiang,
  • Zhipeng Xu,
  • Jianbin Tang and
  • Qiaojun Zhou

16 July 2021

In this paper, an optimized three-dimensional (3D) pairwise point cloud registration algorithm is proposed, which is used for flatness measurement based on a laser profilometer. The objective is to achieve a fast and accurate six-degrees-of-freedom (...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,907 Views
10 Pages

30 September 2018

To address the registration problem in current machine vision, a new three-dimensional (3-D) point cloud registration algorithm that combines fast point feature histograms (FPFH) and greedy projection triangulation is proposed. First, the feature inf...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,356 Views
15 Pages

10 November 2024

When using point cloud technology to measure the dimension and geometric error of aircraft landing gear components, the point cloud data obtained after scanning may have certain differences because of the sophistication and diversity of the component...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
6,088 Views
18 Pages

29 July 2023

Three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction is an essential technique to visualize and monitor the growth of agricultural and forestry plants. However, inspecting tall plants (trees) remains a challenging task for single-camera systems. A combination of lo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,204 Views
31 Pages

Automated Point Cloud Registration Approach Optimized for a Stop-and-Go Scanning System

  • Sangyoon Park,
  • Sungha Ju,
  • Minh Hieu Nguyen,
  • Sanghyun Yoon and
  • Joon Heo

26 December 2023

The latest advances in mobile platforms, such as robots, have enabled the automatic acquisition of full coverage point cloud data from large areas with terrestrial laser scanning. Despite this progress, the crucial post-processing step of registratio...

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