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Sheng Ao

10 accepted papers

2026

LEADER: Learning Reliable Local-to-Global Correspondences for LiDAR Relocalization

CVPR 2026

LiDAR relocalization has attracted increasing attention as it can deliver accurate 6-DoF pose estimation in complex 3D environments. Recent learning-based regression methods offer efficient solutions by directly predicting global poses without the need for explicit map storage. However, these method

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2026

MAC-NeRF: Motion-Aware Curriculum Learning for Dynamic LiDAR NeRFs

ICML 2026poster

While LiDAR NeRFs excel in static environments, synthesizing dynamic scenes remains challenging as moving objects break multi-view consistency, causing conflicting supervision and ghosting artifacts across frames. Existing methods typically suffer from optimization difficulty from the start, struggl…

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2026

RCP-LO: A Relative Coordinate Prediction Framework for Generalizable Deep LiDAR Odometry

AAAI 2026technical

LiDAR odometry is a critical component of SLAM in autonomous driving and robotics. Learning-based methods have shown remarkable performance by regressing relative poses in an end-to-end manner. However, when applying these trained models, originally developed on the widely used KITTI dataset, to oth

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2025

$U2$ Frame: A Unified and Unsupervised Learning Framework for LiDAR-Based Loop Closing

ICRA 2025

Loop closing is critically important in Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) due to its ability to correct accumulated localization errors. However, existing methods are hindered by the difficulty of acquiring pose labels and the unreliability of ground truth data. In this paper, we propose

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2025

DiffLO: Semantic-Aware LiDAR Odometry with Diffusion-Based Refinement

CVPR 2025poster

LiDAR odometry is a critical module in autonomous driving systems, responsible for accurate localization by estimating the relative pose transformation between consecutive point cloud frames. However, existing studies frequently encounter challenges with unreliable pose estimation, due to the lack o…

2025

DropoutGS: Dropping Out Gaussians for Better Sparse-view Rendering

CVPR 2025poster

Although 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has demonstrated promising results in novel view synthesis, its performance degrades dramatically with sparse inputs and generates undesirable artifacts. As the number of training views decreases, the novel view synthesis task degrades to a highly under-determin…

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2025

Progressive Correspondence Regenerator for Robust 3D Registration

CVPR 2025poster

Obtaining enough high-quality correspondences is crucial for robust registration. Existing correspondence refinement methods mostly follow the paradigm of outlier removal, which either fails to correctly identify the accurate correspondences under extreme outlier ratios, or select too few correct co…

2025

RALoc: Enhancing Outdoor LiDAR Localization via Rotation Awareness

ICCV 2025poster

LiDAR localization is a fundamental task in autonomous driving and robotics. Scene Coordinate Regression (SCR) exhibits leading pose accuracy, achieving impressive results in learning-based localization. We observe that the real-world LiDAR scans captured from different viewpoints usually result in…

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2023

BUFFER: Balancing Accuracy, Efficiency, and Generalizability in Point Cloud Registration

CVPR 2023poster

An ideal point cloud registration framework should have superior accuracy, acceptable efficiency, and strong generalizability. However, this is highly challenging since existing registration techniques are either not accurate enough, far from efficient, or generalized poorly. It remains an open ques…

2021

SpinNet: Learning a General Surface Descriptor for 3D Point Cloud Registration

CVPR 2021poster

Extracting robust and general 3D local features is key to downstream tasks such as point cloud registration and reconstruction. Existing learning-based local descriptors are either sensitive to rotation transformations, or rely on classical handcrafted features which are neither general nor represen…

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