Adaptive Depth-Map-Guided Bundle Adjustment for Correspondence-Free Multi-View Point Cloud Registration

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2609.01089v1
• Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2026 11:28:46 GMT
• Title: Adaptive Depth-Map-Guided Bundle Adjustment for Correspondence-Free Multi-View Point Cloud Registration
• Abstract summary: This paper presents an adaptive layered depth-map-guided bundle adjustment framework for correspondence-free multi-view point cloud registration.<n> Experiments on self-collected industrial datasets show that the proposed method achieves consistently competitive reconstruction accuracy.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Robotic processing of irregular steel scrap requires dense 3-D measurement to replace manual visual assessment in hazardous cutting workcells. The reconstructed map is used to estimate piece dimensions, boundary geometry, feasible preheating and cutting regions, and collision-aware torch paths. The reconstruction errors therefore propagate directly to downstream measurement and planning. Existing multi-view registration methods commonly rely on feature extraction and data association to establish correspondences between views. In workcells with smooth metallic surfaces, repeated structures, occlusions, and partial overlaps, however, wrong correspondences may be established, leading to inaccurate pose estimation and distorted reconstruction. This paper presents an adaptive layered depth-map-guided bundle adjustment framework for correspondence-free multi-view point cloud registration. The scene is represented by a global 2.5-D grid, where each cell can adaptively maintain multiple depth hypotheses. Raw depth observations are directly projected into the global map to form depth constraints without explicit feature correspondences. At grid cells where multiple surfaces produce conflicting depths, a softmax-based layer assignment links each observation to compatible depth hypotheses. The resulting nonlinear least-squares formulation jointly refines sensor poses and the layered depth map, with correspondences implicitly induced by the depth-map representation and projection model. Experiments on self-collected industrial datasets show that the proposed method achieves consistently competitive reconstruction accuracy while maintaining robustness and low computational cost in challenging industrial scenarios. We release the open-source code implementation at: https://github.com/YiranZhou-Robotics/ADM-BA.git

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