Summary of Gera: Geometric Embedding For Efficient Point Registration Analysis, by Geng Li et al.
GERA: Geometric Embedding for Efficient Point Registration Analysis
by Geng Li, Haozhi Cao, Mingyang Liu, Shenghai Yuan, Jianfei Yang
First submitted to arxiv on: 1 Oct 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The proposed novel point cloud registration network leverages a pure MLP architecture to eliminate computational and memory burdens associated with traditional complex feature extractors. By constructing geometric information offline, this approach significantly reduces inference time and resource consumption, making it suitable for resource-constrained environments like mobile robotics. The method replaces 3D coordinate inputs with offline-constructed geometric encoding, improving generalization and stability as demonstrated by Maximum Mean Discrepancy (MMD) comparisons. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Point cloud registration is important for navigation systems like surgical guidance systems and autonomous vehicles. A new network uses a simple MLP model to do this job without needing complex parts like KPConv and Transformers. This makes it faster and uses less memory, which is helpful in situations where resources are limited, like mobile robots. The network also does better than others at handling different situations. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Generalization » Inference
