End-to-End LiDAR optimization for 3D point cloud registration
Siddhant Katyan     Marc-André Gardner     Jean-François Lalonde    





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Accepted in British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), 2025!


Abstract

LiDAR sensors are a key modality for 3D perception, yet they are typically designed independently of downstream tasks such as point cloud registration. Conventional registration operates on pre-acquired datasets with fixed LiDAR configurations, leading to suboptimal data collection and significant computational overhead for sampling, noise filtering, and parameter tuning. In this work, we propose an adaptive LiDAR sensing framework that dynamically adjusts sensor parameters, jointly optimizing LiDAR acquisition and registration hyperparameters. By integrating registration feedback into the sensing loop, our approach optimally balances point density, noise, and sparsity, improving registration accuracy and efficiency. Evaluations in the CARLA simulation demonstrate that our method outperforms fixed-parameter baselines while retaining generalization abilities, highlighting the potential of adaptive LiDAR for autonomous perception and robotic applications.


Citation

        
        @inproceedings{Katyan_2025_BMVC,
            author    = {Siddhant Katyan and Marc-Andre Gardner and Jean-Francois Lalonde},
            title     = {End-to-End LiDAR optimization for point cloud registration},
            booktitle = {British Machine Vision Conference},
            publisher = {BMVA},
            year      = {2025},
            url       = {https://bmva-archive.org.uk/bmvc/2025/assets/papers/Paper_1257/paper.pdf}
        }
        
                        

Acknowledgements

This research was supported by NSERC grant ALLRP 580274-22 and Bentley Systems. We thank Harshitha Devendra for assistance with figure preparation and Yannick Hold-Geoffroy for providing insightful comments that helped improve the manuscript.