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PG-Net: Progressive Guidance Network via Robust Contextual Embedding for Efficient Point Cloud Registration


Abstract:

Building high-quality correspondences is critical in the feature-based point cloud registration pipelines. However, existing single-sequence learning frameworks are diffi...Show More

Abstract:

Building high-quality correspondences is critical in the feature-based point cloud registration pipelines. However, existing single-sequence learning frameworks are difficult to accurately and adequately capture contextual information, leaving a large proportion of outliers between two low-overlap scenes. In this article, we present a progressive guidance network (PG-Net) to gather rich contextual information and exclude outliers. Specifically, we design a novel iterative structure that exploits the inlier probabilities of correspondences to guide the classification of initial correspondences progressively. This structure can mitigate outlier effects with robust contextual information to obtain more accurate model estimation. In addition, to sufficiently capture contextual information, we propose a grouped dense fusion attention (GDFA) feature embedding module to enhance the representation of inliers and significant channel–spatial. Meanwhile, we propose a two-stage neural spectral matching (TSNSM) module to compute the inlier probability of each correspondence and estimate a 3-D transformation model in a coarse-to-fine manner. Experiments results on the indoor and outdoor datasets using distinct 3-D local descriptors demonstrate that our PG-Net surpasses state-of-the-art outlier removal methods. Especially compared with the recent outlier removal network PointDSC, our PG-Net improves the registration recall by 4.06% on the indoor dataset with the FPFH descriptor. Source code: https://github.com/changcaiyang/PG-Net.
Article Sequence Number: 5701712
Date of Publication: 11 April 2023

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