3D Point Cloud Registration with Multi-Scale Architecture and Self-supervised Fine-tuning

Sofiane Horache, Jean-Emmanuel Deschaud, François Goulette

Published 2021-03-26Version 1

We present MS-SVConv, a fast multi-scale deep neural network that outputs features from point clouds for 3D registration between two scenes. We compute features using a 3D sparse voxel convolutional network on a point cloud at different scales and then fuse the features through fully-connected layers. With supervised learning, we show significant improvements compared to state-of-the-art methods on the competitive and well-known 3DMatch benchmark. We also achieve a better generalization through different source and target datasets, with very fast computation. Finally, we present a strategy to fine-tune MS-SVConv on unknown datasets in a self-supervised way, which leads to state-of-the-art results on ETH and TUM datasets.