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CoFiNet: Reliable Coarse-to-fine Correspondences for Robust PointCloud Registration

21 May 2021NeurIPS 2021 12archive 2025-07-28

Hao Yu, Fu Li, Mahdi Saleh, Benjamin Busam, Slobodan Ilic

We study the problem of extracting correspondences between a pair of point clouds for registration. For correspondence retrieval, existing works benefit from matching sparse keypoints detected from dense points but usually struggle to guarantee their repeatability. To address this issue, we present CoFiNet - Coarse-to-Fine Network which extracts hierarchical correspondences from coarse to fine without keypoint detection. On a coarse scale and guided by a weighting scheme, our model firstly learns to match down-sampled nodes whose vicinity points share more overlap, which significantly shrinks the search space of a consecutive stage. On a finer scale, node proposals are consecutively expanded to patches that consist of groups of points together with associated descriptors. Point correspondences are then refined from the overlap areas of corresponding patches, by a density-adaptive matching module capable to deal with varying point density. Extensive evaluation of CoFiNet on both indoor and outdoor standard benchmarks shows our superiority over existing methods. Especially on 3DLoMatch where point clouds share less overlap, CoFiNet significantly outperforms state-of-the-art approaches by at least 5% on Registration Recall, with at most two-third of their parameters.

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Point Cloud Registration RotKITTI Registration Benchmark CoFiNet RR@(1,0.1) 30.1 #3 of 6 Archive leaderboard report
Point Cloud Registration RotKITTI Registration Benchmark CoFiNet RR@(1.5,0.3) 62.5 #3 of 6 Archive leaderboard report

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