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Register Anything Model for Generalizable and Robust Point Cloud Registration

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A NeurIPS 2026 paper introduces Register Anything Model (RAM), a unified point cloud registration model trained on indoor, outdoor, and object data that robustly estimates 6-DoF transformations across sensors and environments. Its key ingredient is a geometry-aware normalization strategy that adaptively voxelizes and normalizes point clouds into a standardized geometric space, paired with a hierarchical coarse-to-fine pipeline and an efficient geometric transformer. Across 12 benchmarks it achieves state-of-the-art inlier ratio and registration recall, outperforming models trained separately per domain.

SourcearXiv Computer VisionAuthor: Zheng Qin, Junhua Xi, Yan Huang, Jiahong Lai, Anwen Huang, Qiong Li, Guangda Zhang, Kai Xu
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Title:Register Anything Model for Generalizable and Robust Point Cloud Registration

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Abstract:We present Register Anything Model (RAM), a unified model for generalizable 3D point cloud registration that robustly estimates 6-DoF transformations across diverse domains spanning sensors and environments. Existing registration methods are typically tailored to a single domain, with carefully tuned architectures and hyperparameters, and thus degrade markedly when applied to novel domains. We bridge this gap by training a single model on diverse data from indoor, outdoor, and object domains. A central challenge is the severe geometric discrepancy across domains, i.e., differences in scene scale, sensor noise, point density, and structural patterns, which hinders processing with a unified point-based model. To address this, we introduce a geometry-aware normalization strategy that jointly voxelizes and normalizes point clouds into a standardized geometric space, adaptively based on their geometric properties to preserve salient local structures while standardizing resolution. Built on this normalization, RAM follows a hierarchical coarse-to-fine paradigm, and employs an efficient geometric transformer that models local geometric consistency instead of globally over all points. This design mitigates discretization noise introduced by voxelization, and improves computational efficiency. Extensive experiments on 12 benchmarks demonstrate state-of-the-art performance in terms of inlier ratio and registration recall. Notably, our method outperforms the counterparts trained on each separate domain, showing superior generalization capability.

Comments: Accepted by NeurIPS 2026. Code and models are available at this https URL

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Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)

Cite as: arXiv:2610.28821 [cs.CV]

(or arXiv:2610.28821v1 [cs.CV] for this version)

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2610.28821

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From: Zheng Qin [view email] [v1] Tue, 20 Oct 2026 18:40:50 UTC (10,590 KB)

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  • RAM trains a single model on diverse indoor, outdoor, and object data to estimate 6-DoF transformations across domains.
  • Geometry-aware normalization jointly voxelizes and normalizes point clouds to handle scale, noise, density, and structural differences.
  • A coarse-to-fine hierarchy and efficient geometric transformer model local geometric consistency to curb discretization noise and cost.
  • It reports state-of-the-art inlier ratio and registration recall on 12 benchmarks, beating per-domain counterparts.
  • Accepted at NeurIPS 2026, with code and models released.

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