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Fast Point Feature Histograms (FPFH) for 3D Registration

12 May 2009archive 2025-07-28

Radu Bogdan Rusu, Nico Blodow, Michael Beetz

In our recent work [1], [2], we proposed Point Feature Histograms (PFH) as robust multi-dimensional features which describe the local geometry around a point p for 3D point cloud datasets. In this paper, we modify their mathematical expressions and perform a rigorous analysis on their robustness and complexity for the problem of 3D registration for overlapping point cloud views. More concretely, we present several optimizations that reduce their computation times drastically by either caching previously computed values or by revising their theoretical formulations. The latter results in a new type of local features, called Fast Point Feature Histograms (FPFH), which retain most of the discriminative power of the PFH. Moreover, we propose an algorithm for the online computation of FPFH features for realtime applications. To validate our results we demonstrate their efficiency for 3D registration and propose a new sample consensus based method for bringing two datasets into the convergence basin of a local non-linear optimizer: SAC-IA (SAmple Consensus Initial Alignment).

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Point Cloud Registration

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Point Cloud Registration 3DMatch (at least 30% overlapped - FCGF setting) RANSAC-2M Recall (0.3m, 15 degrees) 66.1 #7 of 14 Archive leaderboard report
Point Cloud Registration 3DMatch (trained on KITTI) FPFH Recall 0.136 #5 of 5 Archive leaderboard report
Point Cloud Registration 3DMatch Benchmark FPFH + RANSAC Feature Matching Recall 44.2 #15 of 15 Archive leaderboard report
Point Cloud Registration ETH (trained on 3DMatch) FPFH Feature Matching Recall 0.221 #8 of 20 Archive leaderboard report
Point Cloud Registration ETH (trained on 3DMatch) FPFH Recall (30cm, 5 degrees) 66.34 #8 of 20 Archive leaderboard report
Point Cloud Registration FPv1 FPFH-8M RRE (degrees) 4.347 #8 of 8 Archive leaderboard report
Point Cloud Registration FPv1 FPFH-8M RTE (cm) 1.900 #8 of 8 Archive leaderboard report
Point Cloud Registration FPv1 FPFH-8M Recall (3cm, 10 degrees) 9.51 #8 of 8 Archive leaderboard report
Point Cloud Registration KITTI (FCGF setting) RANSAC Recall (0.6m, 5 degrees) 34.2 #10 of 11 Archive leaderboard report

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