Geometrically Stable Sampling for the ICP Algorithm

The Iterative Closest Point (ICP) algorithm is a widely used method for aligning three-dimensional point sets. The quality of alignment obtained by this algorithm depends heavily on choosing good pairs of corresponding points in the two datasets. If too many points are chosen from featureless regions of the data, the algorithm converges slowly, finds the wrong pose, or even diverges, especially in the presence of noise or miscalibration in the input data. In this paper, we describe a method for detecting uncertainty in pose, and we propose a point selection strategy for ICP that minimizes this uncertainty by choosing samples that constrain potentially unstable transformations.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: 3DIM
• Authors: Natasha Gelfand, Szymon Rusinkiewicz, Leslie Ikemoto, Marc Levoy
• Keywords: 3DIM 2003, Algorithm, Iterative Closest Point, Three-dimensional Point Sets