arXiv Computer Vision By Karim Slimani, Catherine Achard, Eric Marchand, Brahim Tamadazte

GRIP: Gaussian Rendering as a Cross-Modal Bridge for Image-to-Point Cloud Registration

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GRIP is a pose‑conditioned refinement framework that improves pixel‑to‑point matching for image‑to‑point‑cloud registration. It mitigates the mismatch between grid‑based image descriptors and unordered point cloud descriptors by softly rendering learned 3D point features onto the image grid using Gaussian feature splatting. The resulting rendered point‑derived feature map is fused with image features via a pixel‑aligned transformer, enabling visual semantic and geometric cues to interact in a shared 2D representation, which is then decoded and propagated to finer resolutions for dense correspondence estimation and final pose refinement. Experiments on RGB‑D Scenes V2 and 7 Scenes show state‑of‑the‑art inlier ratios and competitive registration recall, especially under stricter evaluation thresholds.

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