# MCI-Net: A Robust Multi-Domain Context Integration Network for Point Cloud Registration

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.23472 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2512.23472/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 17 of its 31 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 29 Dec 2025.

## Builds on (most cited first, 17 of 17)

- [Semi-Supervised Classification with Graph Convolutional Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1609.02907/) (2016)
- [3DMatch: Learning Local Geometric Descriptors from RGB-D Reconstructions](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1603.08182/) (2016)
- [Deep Closest Point: Learning Representations for Point Cloud Registration](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1905.03304/) (2019)
- [PREDATOR: Registration of 3D Point Clouds with Low Overlap](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2011.13005/) (2020)
- [PPFNet: Global Context Aware Local Features for Robust 3D Point Matching](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1802.02669/) (2018)
- [D3Feat: Joint Learning of Dense Detection and Description of 3D Local Features](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2003.03164/) (2020)
- [CoFiNet: Reliable Coarse-to-fine Correspondences for Robust Point Cloud Registration](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2110.14076/) (2021)
- [PointDSC: Robust Point Cloud Registration using Deep Spatial Consistency](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2103.05465/) (2021)
- [Hyperbolic Vision Transformers: Combining Improvements in Metric Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2203.10833/) (2022)
- [You Only Hypothesize Once: Point Cloud Registration with Rotation-equivariant Descriptors](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2109.00182/) (2021)
- [Deep Hough Voting for Robust Global Registration](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2109.04310/) (2021)
- [HRegNet: A Hierarchical Network for Large-scale Outdoor LiDAR Point Cloud Registration](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2107.11992/) (2021)
- [Progressive Correspondence Pruning by Consensus Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2101.00591/) (2021)
- [SVT-Net: Super Light-Weight Sparse Voxel Transformer for Large Scale Place Recognition](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2105.00149/) (2021)
- [MGNet: Learning Correspondences via Multiple Graphs](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2401.04984/) (2024)
- [O2-Recon: Completing 3D Reconstruction of Occluded Objects in the Scene with a Pre-trained 2D Diffusion Model](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2308.09591/) (2023)
- [Cross-PCR: A Robust Cross-Source Point Cloud Registration Framework](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2412.18873/) (2024)

## Built on by (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [APCReg: Anatomical-Prior-Guided Coarse-to-Fine CBCT--IOS Registration via Multi-View Projection and Reliability-Controlled Residual Correction](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2608.09993/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Robust and discriminative feature learning is critical for high-quality point cloud registration. However, existing deep learning-based methods typically rely on Euclidean neighborhood-based strategies for feature extraction, which struggle to effectively capture the implicit semantics and structural consistency in point clouds. To address these issues, we propose a multi-domain context integration network (MCI-Net) that improves feature representation and registration performance by aggregating contextual cues from diverse domains. Specifically, we propose a graph neighborhood aggregation module, which constructs a global graph to capture the overall structural relationships within point clouds. We then propose a progressive context interaction module to enhance feature discriminability by performing intra-domain feature decoupling and inter-domain context interaction. Finally, we design a dynamic inlier selection method that optimizes inlier weights using residual information from multiple iterations of pose estimation, thereby improving the accuracy and robustness of registration. Extensive experiments on indoor RGB-D and outdoor LiDAR datasets show that the proposed MCI-Net significantly outperforms existing state-of-the-art methods, achieving the highest registration recall of 96.4% on 3DMatch. Source code is available at http://www.linshuyuan.com.
