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Non-Rigid Point Cloud Registration via Anisotropic Hybrid Field Harmonization

Jinyang WangXuequan LuMohammed BennamounBin Sheng

Year: 2025 Journal:   IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence Vol: 47 (9)Pages: 7898-7915   Publisher: IEEE Computer Society

Abstract

Current point cloud registration algorithms struggle to effectively handle both deformations and occlusions simultaneously. Our manifold analysis reveals this limitation arises from the inaccurate modeling of the shape's underlying manifold and the lack of an effective optimization strategy for fragmented manifold structures. In this paper, we present AniSym-Net, a novel non-rigid registration framework designed to address near-isometric deformation registration in the presence of occlusions. To encode object's coarse topological properties and local geometric information, AniSym-Net introduces a novel anisotropic hybrid shape-motion deformation field. The effectiveness of the anisotropic hybrid shape-motion fields relies on both the holonomic constraints from the symplectic structure modeling in AniSym-Net and the motion-conditional cross-attention during fusion, which calibrates geometric features using velocity-boundary constrained point motion patterns. The harmonization of correspondences derived from anisotropic hybrid fields and those from motion-shape fields significantly mitigates registration errors and occlusions. This is achieved through the optimization of loop closures of cotangent bundles within the symplectic manifold framework. We conduct comprehensive evaluation across five popular benchmarks, namely CAPE, DT4D, SAPIEN, FAUST, and DeepDeform, to demonstrate our AniSym-Net's superior performance compared to the state-of-the-art methods. Code will be publicly available.

Keywords:
Point cloud Image registration Artificial intelligence Computer vision Harmonization Computer science Point (geometry) Field (mathematics) Cloud computing Geometry Mathematics Physics Image (mathematics)

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Topics

3D Shape Modeling and Analysis
Physical Sciences →  Engineering →  Computational Mechanics
3D Surveying and Cultural Heritage
Physical Sciences →  Earth and Planetary Sciences →  Geology
Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
Physical Sciences →  Environmental Science →  Environmental Engineering

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