Particle filtering for registration of 2D and 3D point sets with stochastic dynamics

In this paper, we propose a particle filtering approach for the problem of registering two point sets that differ by a rigid body transformation. Typically, registration algorithms compute the transformation parameters by maximizing a metric given an estimate of the correspondence between points across the two sets of interest. This can be viewed as a posterior estimation problem, in which the corresponding distribution can naturally be estimated using a particle filter. In this work, we treat motion as a local variation in pose parameters obtained from running a few iterations of the standard Iterative Closest Point (ICP) algorithm. Employing this idea, we introduce stochastic motion dynamics to widen the narrow band of convergence often found in local optimizer functions used to tackle the registration task. Thus, the novelty of our method is twofold: Firstly, we employ a particle filtering scheme to drive the point set registration process. Secondly, we increase the robustness of t...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: CVPR
• Authors: Romeil Sandhu, Samuel Dambreville, Allen Tannenbaum
• Keywords: Computer Vision, CVPR 2008, Iterative Closest Point, Particle Filtering Approach, Particle Filtering Scheme, Point Set Registration, Transformation Parameters