arxivcs.CV2026-07-16
DINE: Distance Is Not Enough -- Learning Global Deformation Priors for Robust Soft-Tissue Point Cloud Registration
Sara Monji-Azad, Rohit Beer, Marvin Kinz, Claudia Scherl, Jürgen Hesser
Non-rigid point cloud registration is central to soft-tissue shape analysis, but large deformations, noise, and outliers make correspondence estimation challenging. Most learning-based methods rely on local objectives such as Chamfer distance, which encourage point-wise proximity…