Cached k-d tree search for ICP algorithms

  • Authors:
  • Andreas Nuchter;Kai Lingemann;Joachim Hertzberg

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Osnabruck, Germany;University of Osnabruck, Germany;University of Osnabruck, Germany

  • Venue:
  • 3DIM '07 Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on 3-D Digital Imaging and Modeling
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

The ICP (Iterative Closest Point) algorithm is the de facto standard for geometric alignment of three-dimensional models when an initial relative pose estimate is available. The basis of ICP is the search for closest points. Since the development of ICP, k-d trees have been used to accelerate the search. This paper presents a novel search procedure, namely cached k-d trees, exploiting iterative behavior of the ICP algorithm. It results in a significant speedup of about 50% as we show in an evaluation using different data sets.