arXiv:2606. 10019v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We propose a fast and correspondence-free local point cloud registration method that leverages geometric surface structure and reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS) embeddings.
By Ray Zhang, Marcus Greiff, Thomas Lew, John Subosits
The paper introduces GMPCR, a non‑learning spectral consistency‑guided framework for multiview point cloud registration in low‑overlap scenes. GMPCR refines initial correspondences into a second‑order compatibility structure, uses spectral analysis to filter unreliable matches and select informative scan pairs, and then applies maximal‑clique hypothesis generation for robust relative transformations. The resulting sparse pose graph is further refined with an adaptive history‑aware synchronization scheme, and a recovery mechanism allows previously down‑weighted edges to regain confidence, achieving high registration recalls on benchmark datasets while reducing computational cost.
By Tianyu Li, Yanghong Lin, Shudong Zhou, Kui Yang, Jingru Zhang, Li Fang, Wei Yao
DMM-Align introduces a closed‑loop framework for 2D‑3D registration that jointly refines correspondences, estimates pose, and learns representations using a shared differentiable geometric state. The method employs two diffusion processes: a geometry‑aware diffusion that improves the soft matching matrix for robust correspondence estimation, and a geometry‑conditioned diffusion teacher that feeds pose‑induced supervision back into feature learning. Experiments on 7‑Scenes and RGB‑D Scenes V2 show that DMM‑Align outperforms strong baselines, particularly in low‑overlap and heavily occluded scenarios, demonstrating the value of closed‑loop geometric feedback.
By Chongjian Wang, Junjie Gao
arXiv:2609.00713v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Estimation of the absolute pose of an object is an essential task for various robotic applications. Recently, incorporating gravity direction as prior...
By Hu Cao, Qianyi Yang, Xinyi Li, Jiong Liu, Yinlong Liu, Alois Knoll
arXiv:2610.26096v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: We present PnP-Transformer, a neural pose solver designed as an iterative-free, differentiable alternative to classical PnP-RANSAC algorithms. PnP-...
By Emirkan Burak Yilmaz, Yakup Genc
BINDER is a new probabilistic model for medical image registration that builds on mutual information and uses latent voxel‑wise correspondences to enable closed‑form iterative updates. The approach yields a demons‑like optimization algorithm that performs robustly on both monomodal and multimodal tasks, and a sampler that quantifies uncertainty in high‑dimensional 3D deformations. The authors provide the code on GitHub for public use.
By Stefano Cerri, Amirhossein Hassankhani, Ya\"el Balbastre, Koen Van Leemput
The paper introduces PICO, an end-to-end trainable model for 6DoF surgical tool pose estimation that uses multi-task learning to predict segmentation, depth, and pose parameters. It incorporates two geometry-aware proxy tasks—a projection loss and a point-to-point loss—to enforce consistency in 2D and 3D spaces, improving accuracy and robustness. Evaluated on the SurgRIPE dataset, PICO achieves strong performance, ranking second in rotation accuracy and maintaining competitive translation results, especially under occlusion.
By Lucy Fothergill, Pietro Valdastri, Dominic Jones, Duygu Sarikaya
ReliMorph is a novel 3D deformable registration framework that integrates correspondence reliability with spatial expert routing and residual velocity gating. By using local correlation distributions to assess match ambiguity, the method guides expert fusion and velocity updates during coarse‑to‑fine refinement, with inverse‑inconsistency feedback refining decisions at finer levels. Experiments show that ReliMorph consistently improves anatomical overlap over competing methods in both unimodal and multimodal registration tasks.
By Chenyu Guo, Wenjie Dai, Yiqian Chang, Zhiyuan Zhang, Yunfan Wei, Shuhan Qi
arXiv:2608.29928v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: State-of-the-art monocular body recovery methods predict mesh vertices and angles on the corresponding kinematic tree, but their outputs lack biomechan...
By R. James Cotton, J. D. Peiffer, Lucinda Williamson, John Leske, Georgios Pavlakos
arXiv:2608.28715v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Ultrasound-guided interventions can require localization of an untracked 2D frame within a 3D anatomical reference. Rigid slice-to-volume registratio...
By Niklas Schwarz, Jens Kleesiek, Moritz Rempe
arXiv:2607. 23343v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Intraoperative 2D/3D registration aligns preoperative CT volumes with intraoperative X-ray or fluoroscopic images and is essential for image-guided interventions.
By Minheng Chen, Youyong Kong
arXiv:2608. 07564v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In digital dentistry and oral surgery, the registration of jawbone CT and intraoral scanner (IOS) data is essential for integrating internal bone structure with high-resolution dental surface geometry.
By Sho Mitarai, Hikaru Kayo, Hisashi Ozaki, Yuichiro Imai, Megumi Nakao