An Elastic Fine-Tuning Dual Recurrent Framework for Non-Rigid Point Cloud Registration

Non-rigid transformation is based on rigid transformation by adding distortions to form a more complex but more consistent common scene. Many advanced non-rigid alignment models are implemented using supervised learning; however, the large number of labels required for the training process makes the...

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Main Authors: Munan Yuan, Xiru Li, Haibao Tan
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Published: MDPI AG 2025-06-01
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description Non-rigid transformation is based on rigid transformation by adding distortions to form a more complex but more consistent common scene. Many advanced non-rigid alignment models are implemented using supervised learning; however, the large number of labels required for the training process makes their application difficult. Here, an elastic fine-tuning dual recurrent computation for unsupervised non-rigid registration is proposed. At first, we transform a non-rigid transformation into a series of combinations of rigid transformations using an outer recurrent computational network. Then, the inner loop layer computes elastic-controlled rigid incremental transformations by controlling the threshold to obtain a finely coherent rigid transformation. Finally, we design and implement loss functions that constrain deformations and keep transformations as rigid as possible. Extensive experiments validate that the proposed method achieves state-of-the-art performance with 0.01219 earth mover’s distances (EMDs) and 0.0153 root mean square error (RMSE) in non-rigid and rigid scenes, respectively.
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spelling doaj-art-145542a23cae4508a1708156cbfdcd702025-08-20T02:33:02ZengMDPI AGSensors1424-82202025-06-012511352510.3390/s25113525An Elastic Fine-Tuning Dual Recurrent Framework for Non-Rigid Point Cloud RegistrationMunan Yuan0Xiru Li1Haibao Tan2Hefei Institute of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei 230031, ChinaHefei Institute of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei 230031, ChinaHefei Institute of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei 230031, ChinaNon-rigid transformation is based on rigid transformation by adding distortions to form a more complex but more consistent common scene. Many advanced non-rigid alignment models are implemented using supervised learning; however, the large number of labels required for the training process makes their application difficult. Here, an elastic fine-tuning dual recurrent computation for unsupervised non-rigid registration is proposed. At first, we transform a non-rigid transformation into a series of combinations of rigid transformations using an outer recurrent computational network. Then, the inner loop layer computes elastic-controlled rigid incremental transformations by controlling the threshold to obtain a finely coherent rigid transformation. Finally, we design and implement loss functions that constrain deformations and keep transformations as rigid as possible. Extensive experiments validate that the proposed method achieves state-of-the-art performance with 0.01219 earth mover’s distances (EMDs) and 0.0153 root mean square error (RMSE) in non-rigid and rigid scenes, respectively.https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/25/11/3525non-rigid registration3D modelingunsupervisedelastic fine-tuningdual recurrent computation
spellingShingle Munan Yuan
Xiru Li
Haibao Tan
An Elastic Fine-Tuning Dual Recurrent Framework for Non-Rigid Point Cloud Registration
Sensors
non-rigid registration
3D modeling
unsupervised
elastic fine-tuning
dual recurrent computation
title An Elastic Fine-Tuning Dual Recurrent Framework for Non-Rigid Point Cloud Registration
title_full An Elastic Fine-Tuning Dual Recurrent Framework for Non-Rigid Point Cloud Registration
title_fullStr An Elastic Fine-Tuning Dual Recurrent Framework for Non-Rigid Point Cloud Registration
title_full_unstemmed An Elastic Fine-Tuning Dual Recurrent Framework for Non-Rigid Point Cloud Registration
title_short An Elastic Fine-Tuning Dual Recurrent Framework for Non-Rigid Point Cloud Registration
title_sort elastic fine tuning dual recurrent framework for non rigid point cloud registration
topic non-rigid registration
3D modeling
unsupervised
elastic fine-tuning
dual recurrent computation
url https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/25/11/3525
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