Neural LiDAR Bundle Adjustment

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.04169v1
• Date: Sun, 05 Jul 2026 08:16:45 GMT
• Title: Neural LiDAR Bundle Adjustment
• Abstract summary: We provide both theoretical and empirical evidence suggesting that the density of volume sampling plays a significant role in LiDAR NeRF.<n>We propose a novel Neural LiDAR Bundle Adjustment (NeLD-BA) algorithm, which is tailored using efficient volume sampling of LiDAR rays.
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• Abstract: Recent research has achieved remarkable novel view rendering and scene reconstruction results with Neural Radiance Field (NeRF), including extensions to the LiDAR modality. Few studies have, however, explored the key design differences between RGB NeRFs and LiDAR NeRFs, particularly considering their underlying working principles. In this work, we provide both theoretical and empirical evidence suggesting that the density of volume sampling plays a significant role in LiDAR NeRF. Based on this finding, we propose a novel Neural LiDAR Bundle Adjustment (NeLD-BA) algorithm, which is tailored using efficient volume sampling of LiDAR rays for joint optimization of LiDAR map and poses. Extensive experiments are performed using the Newer College and FusionPortable datasets to demonstrate the proposed NeLD-BA's state-of-the-art performance in multi-view point cloud registration and 3D mapping. We will open-source our code for the community.

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