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Deep Global Registration

24 Apr 2020CVPR 2020 6arXiv:2004.11540archive 2025-07-28

Christopher Choy, Wei Dong, Vladlen Koltun

We present Deep Global Registration, a differentiable framework for pairwise registration of real-world 3D scans. Deep global registration is based on three modules: a 6-dimensional convolutional network for correspondence confidence prediction, a differentiable Weighted Procrustes algorithm for closed-form pose estimation, and a robust gradient-based SE(3) optimizer for pose refinement. Experiments demonstrate that our approach outperforms state-of-the-art methods, both learning-based and classical, on real-world data.

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Point Cloud RegistrationPose Estimation

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Point Cloud Registration 3DLoMatch (10-30% overlap) DGR (reported in REGTR) Recall ( correspondence RMSE below 0.2) 48.7 #8 of 13 Archive leaderboard report
Point Cloud Registration 3DMatch (at least 30% overlapped - FCGF setting) DGR (RE (all), TE(all) are reported in PCAM) RE (all) 9.5 #4 of 14 Archive leaderboard report
Point Cloud Registration 3DMatch (at least 30% overlapped - FCGF setting) DGR (RE (all), TE(all) are reported in PCAM) Recall (0.3m, 15 degrees) 91.3 #4 of 14 Archive leaderboard report
Point Cloud Registration 3DMatch (at least 30% overlapped - FCGF setting) DGR (RE (all), TE(all) are reported in PCAM) TE (all) 0.25 #4 of 14 Archive leaderboard report
Point Cloud Registration 3DMatch (at least 30% overlapped - sample 5k interest points) DGR (reported in REGTR) Recall ( correspondence RMSE below 0.2) 85.3 #6 of 11 Archive leaderboard report
Point Cloud Registration KITTI (FCGF setting) DGR + ICP (RE (all), TE(all) are reported in PCAM) RE (all) 1.43 #2 of 11 Archive leaderboard report
Point Cloud Registration KITTI (FCGF setting) DGR + ICP (RE (all), TE(all) are reported in PCAM) Recall (0.6m, 5 degrees) 98.2 #2 of 11 Archive leaderboard report
Point Cloud Registration KITTI (FCGF setting) DGR + ICP (RE (all), TE(all) are reported in PCAM) TE (all) 0.16 #2 of 11 Archive leaderboard report
Point Cloud Registration KITTI (FCGF setting) DGR (RE (all), TE(all) are reported in PCAM) RE (all) 1.62 #7 of 11 Archive leaderboard report
Point Cloud Registration KITTI (FCGF setting) DGR (RE (all), TE(all) are reported in PCAM) Recall (0.6m, 5 degrees) 96.9 #7 of 11 Archive leaderboard report
Point Cloud Registration KITTI (FCGF setting) DGR (RE (all), TE(all) are reported in PCAM) TE (all) 0.34 #7 of 11 Archive leaderboard report

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