Point offer are a unified representation for 3D data. Whether the sensor is a laser scanner, lidar or a depth camera, the acquired information can be stored in form an unstructured point cloud. This makes such representation ubiquitous. In this project, we aim to adapt state-of-the-art learning algorithms to efficiently handle point cloud data in order to find objects, detect structures, perform segmentation and 3d reconstruction.
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We present a revised pipe-line of the existing 3D object detection and pose estimation framework based on point pair feature matching. In particular, we propose to couple the object detection with a coarse-to-fine segmentation, where each segment is subject to disjoint pose estimation. During matching, we apply a weighted Hough voting and an interpolated recovery of pose parameters. Finally, all the generated hypotheses are tested via an occlusion-aware ranking and sorted. We argue that such a combined pipeline simultaneously boosts the detection rate and reduces the complexity, while improving the accuracy of the resulting pose.