GeGS-PCR: Effective and Robust 3D Point Cloud Registration with Two-Stage Color-Enhanced Geometric-3DGS Fusion

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Main Authors: Tian, Jiayi, Huang, Haiduo, Xia, Tian, Zhao, Wenzhe, Ren, Pengju
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Published: 2026
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author Tian, Jiayi
Huang, Haiduo
Xia, Tian
Zhao, Wenzhe
Ren, Pengju
author_facet Tian, Jiayi
Huang, Haiduo
Xia, Tian
Zhao, Wenzhe
Ren, Pengju
contents We address the challenge of point cloud registration using color information, where traditional methods relying solely on geometric features often struggle in low-overlap and incomplete scenarios. To overcome these limitations, we propose GeGS-PCR, a novel two-stage method that combines geometric, color, and Gaussian information for robust registration. Our approach incorporates a dedicated color encoder that enhances color features by extracting multi-level geometric and color data from the original point cloud. We introduce the \textbf{Ge}ometric-3D\textbf{GS} module, which encodes the local neighborhood information of colored superpoints to ensure a globally invariant geometric-color context. Leveraging LORA optimization, we maintain high performance while preserving the expressiveness of 3DGS. Additionally, fast differentiable rendering is utilized to refine the registration process, leading to improved convergence. To further enhance performance, we propose a joint photometric loss that exploits both geometric and color features. This enables strong performance in challenging conditions with extremely low point cloud overlap. We validate our method by colorizing the Kitti dataset as ColorKitti and testing on both Color3DMatch and Color3DLoMatch datasets. Our method achieves state-of-the-art performance with \textit{Registration Recall} at 99.9\%, \textit{Relative Rotation Error} as low as 0.013, and \textit{Relative Translation Error} as low as 0.024, improving precision by at least a factor of 2.
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spellingShingle GeGS-PCR: Effective and Robust 3D Point Cloud Registration with Two-Stage Color-Enhanced Geometric-3DGS Fusion
Tian, Jiayi
Huang, Haiduo
Xia, Tian
Zhao, Wenzhe
Ren, Pengju
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
We address the challenge of point cloud registration using color information, where traditional methods relying solely on geometric features often struggle in low-overlap and incomplete scenarios. To overcome these limitations, we propose GeGS-PCR, a novel two-stage method that combines geometric, color, and Gaussian information for robust registration. Our approach incorporates a dedicated color encoder that enhances color features by extracting multi-level geometric and color data from the original point cloud. We introduce the \textbf{Ge}ometric-3D\textbf{GS} module, which encodes the local neighborhood information of colored superpoints to ensure a globally invariant geometric-color context. Leveraging LORA optimization, we maintain high performance while preserving the expressiveness of 3DGS. Additionally, fast differentiable rendering is utilized to refine the registration process, leading to improved convergence. To further enhance performance, we propose a joint photometric loss that exploits both geometric and color features. This enables strong performance in challenging conditions with extremely low point cloud overlap. We validate our method by colorizing the Kitti dataset as ColorKitti and testing on both Color3DMatch and Color3DLoMatch datasets. Our method achieves state-of-the-art performance with \textit{Registration Recall} at 99.9\%, \textit{Relative Rotation Error} as low as 0.013, and \textit{Relative Translation Error} as low as 0.024, improving precision by at least a factor of 2.
title GeGS-PCR: Effective and Robust 3D Point Cloud Registration with Two-Stage Color-Enhanced Geometric-3DGS Fusion
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.17721