The paper introduces Ex‑Sim(3)‑Reg, a fast and robust method for pruning 2D‑3D correspondences by reformulating the problem as an extended Sim(3) registration that explicitly accounts for depth noise. The authors provide a theoretical justification and demonstrate that their approach improves registration recall by up to 24.7% on several benchmark datasets, outperforming state‑of‑the‑art baselines. The code for the method is publicly available on GitHub.
By Pei An, Muyao Peng, Junfeng Ding, Jiaqi Yang, Liangliang Nan
FlashReg is a GPU‑accelerated method for point cloud registration that bypasses the construction of dense second‑order compatibility graphs. It builds a sparse second‑order graph directly from a binary first‑order graph using Fast First‑ and Second‑Order Graph (FFSOG) construction, then performs a dataflow‑optimized 3‑clique search to select correspondence pivots and enumerate triples. On indoor and outdoor benchmarks, FlashReg achieves 2–3× lower correspondence‑to‑pose latency than TurboReg while using roughly half the peak tensor memory on an embedded GPU, making it suitable for high‑throughput onboard perception pipelines.
By Ziyang Yu, Xiang Li, Qiong Chang, Jun Miyazaki
C3VDReg is a benchmark for local-to-local colonoscopic registration that uses the Colonoscopy 3D Video Dataset (C3VD) to generate 10,015 partial-to-partial point cloud pairs, with 2,088 held‑out test pairs. Each pair consists of a source point cloud from depth reprojection and a target point cloud from CT mesh raycasting, evaluated under a standardized protocol of 8,192 points per cloud and fixed pose conventions. Experiments show that high geometric overlap does not guarantee reliable pose recovery, revealing translation ambiguity along repetitive tubular anatomy as a key failure mode.
By Linzhe Jiang, Jiayuan Huang, Sophia Bano, Matthew J. Clarkson, Zhehua Mao, Mobarak I. Hoque
arXiv:2608. 19536v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Learning-based global point cloud registration has achieved remarkable progress, yet its reliance on geometric representations makes existing methods sensitive to variations in point density, scan pattern, viewpoint, and sensor characteristics.
By Eunsoo Im, Junghun Suh, Gyeonggwan Lee, Seunghwan Hong
The paper introduces DPA-I2P, a depth-guided projective alignment method for image-to-point-cloud registration in autonomous driving. It employs Ray-Conditioned Metric Depth Encoding and Projection-Consistent Vision Lifting to align depth and visual cues geometrically, and uses Cross-Modal Query Pruning to enhance matching stability. Experiments on KITTI and nuScenes show significant reductions in rotation and translation errors compared to existing implicit baselines.
By Wenxin Zhang, Hang Li, Zhiwei Xu, Qiankun Dong, Gang Wang, Tao Li
Learning-based global point cloud registration has achieved remarkable progress, yet its reliance on geometric representations makes existing methods sensitive to variations in point density, scan pattern, viewpoint, and sensor characteristics. We propose CVSD-Reg, a robust global LiDAR registration framework that distills visual semantic priors from a vision foundation model into LiDAR representations.