Lidar-based place recognition for autonomous driving: A survey

Y Zhang, P Shi, J Li - ACM Computing Surveys, 2023 - dl.acm.org
LiDAR has gained popularity in autonomous driving due to advantages like long
measurement distance, rich 3D information, and stability in harsh environments. Place …

Buffer: Balancing accuracy, efficiency, and generalizability in point cloud registration

S Ao, Q Hu, H Wang, K Xu… - Proceedings of the IEEE …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
An ideal point cloud registration framework should have superior accuracy, acceptable
efficiency, and strong generalizability. However, this is highly challenging since existing …

RoReg: Pairwise point cloud registration with oriented descriptors and local rotations

H Wang, Y Liu, Q Hu, B Wang, J Chen… - … on Pattern Analysis …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present RoReg, a novel point cloud registration framework that fully exploits oriented
descriptors and estimated local rotations in the whole registration pipeline. Previous …

[HTML][HTML] Small but mighty: Enhancing 3d point clouds semantic segmentation with u-next framework

Z Zeng, Q Hu, Z Xie, B Li, J Zhou, Y Xu - International Journal of Applied …, 2025 - Elsevier
We investigate the problem of 3D point clouds semantic segmentation. Recently, a large
amount of research work has focused on local feature aggregation. However, the …

[HTML][HTML] Rethinking of learning-based 3D keypoints detection for large-scale point clouds registration

SC Liu, T Wang, Y Zhang, R Zhou, C Dai… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
The main solution for large-scale point clouds registration is to first obtain a set of matched
3D keypoint pairs and then accomplish the point cloud registration task based on these …

MAC: Maximal Cliques for 3D Registration

J Yang, X Zhang, P Wang, Y Guo, K Sun… - … on Pattern Analysis …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a 3D registration method with maximal cliques (MAC) for 3D point cloud
registration (PCR). The key insight is to loosen the previous maximum clique constraint and …

A Novel Local Feature Descriptor and an Accurate Transformation Estimation Method for 3-D Point Cloud Registration

B Zhao, J Yue, Z Tang, X Chen… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Point cloud registration plays an important role in 3-D computer vision. Local feature-based
registration as a kind of effective and robust method has two critical steps: descriptor …

HA-TiNet: Learning a Distinctive and General 3D Local Descriptor for Point Cloud Registration

B Zhao, Q Liu, Z Wang, X Chen, Z Jia… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Extracting geometric features from 3D point clouds is widely applied in many tasks, including
registration and recognition. We propose a simple yet effective method, termed height …

SphereNet: Learning a Noise-Robust and General Descriptor for Point Cloud Registration

G Zhao, Z Guo, X Wang, H Ma - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Point cloud registration aims to estimate a transformation that aligns point clouds collected
from different perspectives. In learning-based point cloud registration, a robust descriptor is …

Rotation invariance and equivariance in 3D deep learning: a survey

J Fei, Z Deng - Artificial Intelligence Review, 2024 - Springer
Deep neural networks (DNNs) in 3D scenes show a strong capability of extracting high-level
semantic features and significantly promote research in the 3D field. 3D shapes and scenes …