Kai Xu

Prof. Dr. Kai Xu

School of Computer Science Cellphone, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410128, China

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Academic Career Length

14Years (2013-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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20 March 2023 in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
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ZQZheng Qin
Zheng Qin
HYHao Yu
Hao Yu
CWChangjian Wang
Changjian Wang
YGYulan Guo
Yulan Guo
YPYuxing Peng
Yuxing Peng
Kai XuKai Xu
Kai Xu
We study the problem of extracting accurate correspondences for point cloud registration. Recent keypoint-free methods have shown great potential through bypassing the detection of repeatable keypoints which is difficult to do especially in low-overlap scenarios. They seek correspondences over downsampled superpoints, which are then propagated to dense points. Superpoints are matched based on whether their neighboring patches overlap. Such sparse and loose matching requires contextual features capturing the geometric structure of the point clouds. We propose Geometric Transformer, or GeoTransformer for short, to learn geometric feature for robust superpoint matching. It encodes pair-wise distances and triplet-wise angles, making it invariant to rigid transformation and robust in low-overlap cases. The simplistic design attains surprisingly high matching accuracy such that no RANSAC is required in the estimation of alignment transformation, leading to 100 times acceleration. Extensive experiments on rich benchmarks encompassing indoor, outdoor, synthetic, multiway and non-rigid demonstrate the efficacy of GeoTransformer. Notably, our method improves the inlier ratio by $18{\sim }31$ percentage points and the registration recall by over 7 points on the challenging 3DLoMatch benchmark.

21 May 2013 in Quantum Information Processing
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YZYi Zhang
Yi Zhang
KLKai Lu
Kai Lu
YGYinghui Gao
Yinghui Gao
Kai XuKai Xu
Kai Xu

27 December 2021 in Science China Information Sciences
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HZHang Zhao
Hang Zhao
CZChenyang Zhu
Chenyang Zhu
XXXin Xu
Xin Xu
HHHui Huang
Hui Huang
Kai XuKai Xu
Kai Xu

30 September 2014 in Quantum Information Processing
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YZYi Zhang
Yi Zhang
KLKai Lu
Kai Lu
Kai XuKai Xu
Kai Xu
YGYinghui Gao
Yinghui Gao
RWRichard Wilson
Richard Wilson

23 August 2014 in Computer Graphics Forum
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ZXZhige Xie
Zhige Xie
Kai XuKai Xu
Kai Xu
LLLigang Liu
Ligang Liu
YXYueshan Xiong
Yueshan Xiong

1 May 2020 in Computer Graphics Forum
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SCSiddhartha Chaudhuri
Siddhartha Chaudhuri
DRDaniel Ritchie
Daniel Ritchie
JWJiajun Wu
Jiajun Wu
Kai XuKai Xu
Kai Xu
HZHao Zhang
Hao Zhang