Title
Point cloud registration using congruent pyramids
Abstract
We present a method to compute an initial alignment for pairwise registration of point clouds. This method uses the properties of a rigid body transformation - the ratio of lengths is preserved, the euclidean distance between points is preserved - to find congruent pyramids in two point clouds. The corresponding vertices of the congruent pyramids are used to derive a closed form solution for initial alignment. The alignment is refined further using the Iterative Closest Point algorithm. We validate the method on challenging datasets - which include airborne LIDAR, outdoor, and indoor - having initial offsets and varying densities.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/IROS.2014.6942800
Intelligent Robots and Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
airborne radar,optical radar,Euclidean distance,airborne LIDAR,congruent pyramids,iterative closest point algorithm,pairwise registration,point cloud registration,rigid body transformation
Computer vision,Computer science,Artificial intelligence,Point cloud,Congruence (geometry),Iterative closest point
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2153-0858
1
0.39
References 
Authors
11
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Aravindhan K. Krishnan111.41
Srikanth Saripalli256460.11