GeoTransformer : Fast and Robust Point Cloud Registration With Geometric Transformer

We study the problem of extracting accurate correspondences for point cloud registration. Recent keypoint-free methods have shown great potential through bypassing the detection of repeatable keypoints which is difficult to do especially in low-overlap scenarios. They seek correspondences over downs...

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Publié dans:IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence. - 1979. - 45(2023), 8 vom: 17. Aug., Seite 9806-9821
Auteur principal: Qin, Zheng (Auteur)
Autres auteurs: Yu, Hao, Wang, Changjian, Guo, Yulan, Peng, Yuxing, Ilic, Slobodan, Hu, Dewen, Xu, Kai
Format: Article en ligne
Langue:English
Publié: 2023
Accès à la collection:IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence
Sujets:Journal Article
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Résumé:We study the problem of extracting accurate correspondences for point cloud registration. Recent keypoint-free methods have shown great potential through bypassing the detection of repeatable keypoints which is difficult to do especially in low-overlap scenarios. They seek correspondences over downsampled superpoints, which are then propagated to dense points. Superpoints are matched based on whether their neighboring patches overlap. Such sparse and loose matching requires contextual features capturing the geometric structure of the point clouds. We propose Geometric Transformer, or GeoTransformer for short, to learn geometric feature for robust superpoint matching. It encodes pair-wise distances and triplet-wise angles, making it invariant to rigid transformation and robust in low-overlap cases. The simplistic design attains surprisingly high matching accuracy such that no RANSAC is required in the estimation of alignment transformation, leading to 100 times acceleration. Extensive experiments on rich benchmarks encompassing indoor, outdoor, synthetic, multiway and non-rigid demonstrate the efficacy of GeoTransformer. Notably, our method improves the inlier ratio by 18 ∼ 31 percentage points and the registration recall by over 7 points on the challenging 3DLoMatch benchmark
Description:Date Completed 03.07.2023
Date Revised 03.07.2023
published: Print-Electronic
Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE
ISSN:1939-3539
DOI:10.1109/TPAMI.2023.3259038