Guaranteed Outlier Removal for Point Cloud Registration with Correspondences.

An established approach for 3D point cloud registration is to estimate the registration function from 3D keypoint correspondences. Typically, a robust technique is required to conduct the estimation, since there are false correspondences or outliers. Current 3D keypoint techniques are much less accurate than their 2D counterparts, thus they tend to produce extremely high outlier rates.

Fast Rotation Search with Stereographic Projections for 3D Registration.

Registering two 3D point clouds involves estimating the rigid transform that brings the two point clouds into alignment. Recently there has been a surge of interest in using branch-and-bound (BnB) optimisation for point cloud registration. While BnB guarantees globally optimal solutions, it is usually too slow to be practical.