Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, Volume. 62, Issue 12, 1215012(2025)

Point Cloud Registration Algorithm Based on Angle Constraint and Maximal Clique

Yaochang Tan, Junwei Yang, Kunyang Li, and Lixin Tang*
Author Affiliations
  • School of Mechanical Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, Hubei , China
  • show less

    To overcome the issues of high memory consumption, long computation time, and limited accuracy in point cloud registration algorithms for graph space maximal clique (MAC) analysis, a registration algorithm based on angle constraints and MACs is proposed. First, existing algorithms are used to obtain initial matching point pairs from the point cloud, and a first-order spatial compatibility graph is constructed using distance constraints between points. Thereafter, a second-order spatial compatibility graph is constructed under the constraint of three-point spatial angles. Next, MACs are searched for in the second-order graph and sorted and filtered using a priority queue. Finally, weighted singular value decomposition is used to calculate and evaluate the optimal rotation-translation transformation for the largest cliques in the priority queue. The proposed algorithm effectively eliminates incorrect matching point pairs by introducing spatial three-point angle constraints and a MAC priority queue, thereby reducing computation time, optimizing memory consumption, and improving registration accuracy. The registration experiments conducted on the KITTI, 3DMatch, and 3DLoMatch open-source datasets demonstrate that the proposed algorithm achieves excellent registration accuracy compared with other typical point-based registration algorithms. Moreover, the proposed algorithm outperforms the MAC algorithm based on graph space analysis with respect to registration time and memory consumption. In addition, the effectiveness of spatial three-point angle constraints for improving registration accuracy and reducing map size is further verified through ablation experiments.

    Keywords
    Tools

    Get Citation

    Copy Citation Text

    Yaochang Tan, Junwei Yang, Kunyang Li, Lixin Tang. Point Cloud Registration Algorithm Based on Angle Constraint and Maximal Clique[J]. Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, 2025, 62(12): 1215012

    Download Citation

    EndNote(RIS)BibTexPlain Text
    Save article for my favorites
    Paper Information

    Category: Machine Vision

    Received: Dec. 3, 2024

    Accepted: Feb. 17, 2025

    Published Online: Jun. 25, 2025

    The Author Email: Lixin Tang (lixintang@mail.hust.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/LOP242367

    CSTR:32186.14.LOP242367

    Topics