Zan Gojcic, Zhou Caifa, Jan D. Wegner, Leonidas J. Guibas, and Tolga Birdal. Learning multiview 3D point cloud registration. Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2020. pp. 1759-1769.

Abstract:

We present a novel, end-to-end learnable, multiview 3D point cloud registration algorithm. Registration of multiple scans typically follows a two-stage pipeline: the initial pairwise alignment and the globally consistent refinement. The former is often ambiguous due to the low overlap of neighboring point clouds, symmetries and repetitive scene parts. Therefore, the latter global refinement aims at establishing the cyclic consistency across multiple scans and helps in resolving the ambiguous cases. In this paper we propose, to the best of our knowledge, the first end-to-end algorithm for joint learning of both parts of this two-stage problem. Experimental evaluation on well accepted benchmark datasets shows that our approach outperforms the state-of-the-art by a significant margin, while being end-to-end trainable and computationally less costly. Moreover, we present detailed analysis and an ablation study that validate the novel components of our approach.

Bibtex:

@inproceedings{gzwgb-cvpr-20,
  title={Learning multiview 3D point cloud registration},
  author={Gojcic, Zan and Zhou, Caifa and Wegner, Jan D and Guibas, Leonidas J and Birdal, Tolga},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition},
  pages={1759--1769},
  year={2020}
}