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Register Any Point: Scaling 3D Point Cloud Registration by Flow Matching

arXiv 2512.01850 ↗First posted 1 Dec 2025cs.CV cs.ROcited by 9

On the map: Diffusion models → 3D, point cloud and scene generation

Abstract (arXiv)

Point cloud registration aligns multiple unposed point clouds into a common reference frame and is a core step for 3D reconstruction and robot localization without initial guess. In this work, we cast registration as conditional generation: a learned, continuous point-wise velocity field transports noisy points to a registered scene, from which the pose of each view is recovered. Unlike prior methods that perform correspondence matching to estimate pairwise transformations and then optimize a pose graph for multi-view registration, our model directly generates the registered point cloud, yielding both efficiency and point-level global consistency. By scaling the training data and conducting test-time rigidity enforcement, our approach achieves state-of-the-art results on existing pairwise registration benchmarks and on our proposed cross-domain multi-view registration benchmark. The superior zero-shot performance on this benchmark shows that our method generalizes across view counts, scene scales, and sensor modalities even with low overlap. Source code available at: https://github.com/PRBonn/RAP.

Key facts. Cited by 9 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026). Placed in 3D, point cloud and scene generation, one of 14 directions in Diffusion models. Builds on 98 of its 159 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 1 Dec 2025.

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