LiDAR Perception papers, 2023–2026

Key findings

• LiDAR Perception went from 84 papers in 2023 to 100 in 2026, roughly 1.2x in three years.
• CVPR publishes the most LiDAR Perception work: 242 papers from 2023 to 2026, 67% of the four-venue total.
• The fastest-growing overlap is with Multimodal LLMs: papers tagged with both rose from 1 in 2023 to 17 in 2026.
• Among the 5 topics under Autonomous Driving, it ranks #3 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Motion Planning, is up 2.4x versus 1.2x here.

Representative papers

Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up

• NeurIPS 2026BiLi: Bridging the Last Mile in LiDAR Localization
• ICML 2026PACE: Post-Causal Entropy Modeling for Learned LiDAR Point Cloud Compression
• ICLR 2026GaussianFusion: Unified 3D Gaussian Representation for Multi-Modal Fusion Perception
• CVPR 2026Adaptive 3D Perception for Small Aerial Targets Under Sparse Sampling
• NeurIPS 2025Optimal Neural Compressors for the Rate-Distortion-Perception Tradeoff
• ICML 2025Towards Learning to Complete Anything in Lidar
• ICLR 2025Point Cluster: A Compact Message Unit for Communication-Efficient Collaborative Perception
• CVPR 2025DiskVPS: Vanishing Point Detector via Hough Transform in a Disk Region
• NeurIPS 2024Inference on the Change Point under a High Dimensional Covariance Shift
• ICML 2024How Learning by Reconstruction Produces Uninformative Features For Perception
• ICLR 2024CALICO: Self-Supervised Camera-LiDAR Contrastive Pre-training for BEV Perception
• CVPR 2024GLiDR: Topologically Regularized Graph Generative Network for Sparse LiDAR Point Clouds
• NeurIPS 2023Asynchrony-Robust Collaborative Perception via Bird's Eye View Flow
• ICML 2023Robust Perception through Equivariance
• ICLR 2023LiftedCL: Lifting Contrastive Learning for Human-Centric Perception
• CVPR 2023ALSO: Automotive Lidar Self-Supervision by Occupancy Estimation
• NeurIPS 2026CMI-Trans: Cross Modal Inconsistency-aware Transport for HSI-LiDAR Classification
• ICML 2026OBJVanish: Prompt-Driven Generation of Physically Realizable 3D LiDAR-Invisible Objects
• ICLR 2026Point-Focused Attention Meets Context-Scan State Space: Robust Biological Visual Perception for Point Cloud Representation
• CVPR 2026Bezier Degradation Modeling for LiDAR-based Human Motion Capture

All LiDAR Perception papers

359 papers, page 2 of 8

51. CVPR 2026StreamVLO Streaming Visual-LiDAR Odometry with Cumulative Drift Compensation
52. CVPR 2026Structure-to-Intensity Diffusion for Adverse-Weather LiDAR Generation
53. CVPR 2026SuP Sub-cloud Driven Point Cloud Registration
54. CVPR 2026TerraSeg Self-Supervised Ground Segmentation for Any LiDAR
55. CVPR 2026TriDF Evaluating Perception Detection and Hallucination for Interpretable DeepFake Detection
56. CVPR 2026U4D Uncertainty-Aware 4D World Modeling from LiDAR Sequences
57. CVPR 2026UniPercept A Unified Diffusion Model for Generalizable Visual Perception
58. CVPR 2026V2U4Real A Real-world Large-scale Dataset for Vehicle-to-UAV Cooperative Perception
59. CVPR 2026ZoomEarth Active Perception for Ultra-High-Resolution Geospatial Vision-Language Tasks
60. ICLR 2026Free Point-wise Anomaly Detection via Fold-bifurcation
61. ICLR 2026GaussianFusion: Unified 3D Gaussian Representation for Multi-Modal Fusion Perception
62. ICLR 2026Guaranteed Simply Connected Mesh Reconstruction from an Unorganized Point Cloud
63. ICLR 2026PAGE-4D: Disentangled Pose and Geometry Estimation for 4D Perception
64. ICLR 2026Point-Focused Attention Meets Context-Scan State Space: Robust Biological Visual Perception for Point Cloud Representation
65. ICML 2026Counterfactual Occlusion-Aware Learning via Visibility Intervention for LiDAR Anomaly Detection
66. ICML 2026Deep Residual Injection for Full-Spectrum Forensic Signal Perception in Multimodal Large Language Models
67. ICML 2026GePBench: Evaluating Fundamental Geometric Perception for Multimodal Large Language Models
68. ICML 2026Iterative Refinement Neural Operators are Learned Fixed-Point Solvers: A Principled Approach to Spectral Bias Mitigation
69. ICML 2026OBJVanish: Prompt-Driven Generation of Physically Realizable 3D LiDAR-Invisible Objects
70. ICML 2026PACE: Post-Causal Entropy Modeling for Learned LiDAR Point Cloud Compression
71. ICML 2026QPoint: End-to-End Lightweight Point Cloud Processing via Robust Quaternion Feature Learning
72. ICML 2026Training-Free Rate-Distortion-Perception Traversal With Diffusion
73. ICML 2026UniMapping: Unified SLAM Framework for Map-Centric Embodied Perception
74. ICML 2026VideoVeritas: AI-Generated Video Detection via Perception Pretext Reinforcement Learning
75. NeurIPS 2026Benchmark for Assessing Olfactory Perception of Large Language Models
76. NeurIPS 2026BiLi: Bridging the Last Mile in LiDAR Localization
77. NeurIPS 2026CMI-Trans: Cross Modal Inconsistency-aware Transport for HSI-LiDAR Classification
78. NeurIPS 2026Cross-Modal Prior-Guided Training with Visual Foundation Models for Unsupervised LiDAR Point Cloud Registration
79. NeurIPS 2026Diffusion Masked Pretraining for Dynamic Point Cloud
80. NeurIPS 2026FIND: Frequency Invariance Disentanglement for Test-Time Adaptation in LiDAR 3D Detection
81. NeurIPS 2026Flow Map Denoisers: Traversing the Distortion-Perception Plane for Inverse Problems
82. NeurIPS 2026HuPER: A Human-Inspired Framework for Phonetic Perception
83. NeurIPS 2026Hyper Hawkes Processes: Interpretable Models of Marked Temporal Point Processes
84. NeurIPS 2026Illusory Pattern Perception Drives Spurious Inference in Large Language Models
85. NeurIPS 2026LR-V2X: Loss Resilient Collaborative Perception under Low-Bandwidth Communication
86. NeurIPS 2026MemReg: Streaming Outdoor LiDAR Point Cloud Registration with Hybrid Memory Buffers
87. NeurIPS 2026mmLIP: mmWave Radar-Language Interactive Pretraining via Point Confidence
88. NeurIPS 2026Motion Cues from Image-based Point Tracking for LiDAR Scene Flow Estimation
89. NeurIPS 2026Neural Reconstruction of LiDAR Point Clouds under Jamming Attacks via Full-Waveform Representation and Simultaneous Laser Sensing
90. NeurIPS 2026OHATP: Graph Anomaly Detection with Orthogonal-Hyperspherical Augmentation and Topology Perception
91. NeurIPS 2026Perception for Action in Latent World Models
92. NeurIPS 2026PhysVista: Benchmarking Physical Intelligence in VLMs via a Perception-Reasoning-Assessment Loop
93. NeurIPS 2026Point Clustering Encoders
94. NeurIPS 2026RESBev: Making BEV Perception More Robust
95. NeurIPS 2026Rethinking Geometric Depth in Monocular 3D Object Detection: A Projection-Consistent Reformulation
96. NeurIPS 2026RSPReg: Reliability-aware Structural Prototype Learning for Point Cloud Registration
97. NeurIPS 2026SFPR: Structural Fingerprinting for LiDAR-to-OpenStreetMap Place Recognition
98. NeurIPS 2026State Evolution Awareness for Category-agnostic 3D Point Cloud Tracking
99. NeurIPS 2026Tactile MNIST: Benchmarking Active Tactile Perception
100. CVPR 20253D-AVS: LiDAR-based 3D Auto-Vocabulary Segmentation

FAQ

How many LiDAR Perception papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?

360 in total: 84 in 2023, 90 in 2024, 86 in 2025, 100 in 2026.

How many LiDAR Perception papers are at NeurIPS 2026?

NeurIPS 2026 has 25 LiDAR Perception papers, versus 21 the year before.

How many LiDAR Perception papers are at ICLR 2026?

ICLR 2026 has 5 LiDAR Perception papers, versus 5 the year before.

How many LiDAR Perception papers are at ICML 2026?

ICML 2026 has 10 LiDAR Perception papers, versus 7 the year before.

How many LiDAR Perception papers are at CVPR 2026?

CVPR 2026 has 60 LiDAR Perception papers, versus 53 the year before.

Which conference publishes the most LiDAR Perception papers?

CVPR, with 242 papers from 2023 to 2026.