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

241 papers, page 2 of 5

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. CVPR 20253D-AVS: LiDAR-based 3D Auto-Vocabulary Segmentation
61. CVPR 2025Adapting Pre-trained 3D Models for Point Cloud Video Understanding via Cross-frame Spatio-temporal Perception
62. CVPR 2025BIP3D: Bridging 2D Images and 3D Perception for Embodied Intelligence
63. CVPR 2025BWFormer: Building Wireframe Reconstruction from Airborne LiDAR Point Cloud with Transformer
64. CVPR 2025CamPoint: Boosting Point Cloud Segmentation with Virtual Camera
65. CVPR 2025ColabSfM: Collaborative Structure-from-Motion by Point Cloud Registration
66. CVPR 2025Continuous 3D Perception Model with Persistent State
67. CVPR 2025DeepLA-Net: Very Deep Local Aggregation Networks for Point Cloud Analysis
68. CVPR 2025DiffLO: Semantic-Aware LiDAR Odometry with Diffusion-Based Refinement
69. CVPR 2025DiskVPS: Vanishing Point Detector via Hough Transform in a Disk Region
70. CVPR 2025Distilling Spatially-Heterogeneous Distortion Perception for Blind Image Quality Assessment
71. CVPR 2025DSPNet: Dual-vision Scene Perception for Robust 3D Question Answering
72. CVPR 2025Dual Focus-Attention Transformer for Robust Point Cloud Registration
73. CVPR 2025DV-Matcher: Deformation-based Non-rigid Point Cloud Matching Guided by Pre-trained Visual Features
74. CVPR 2025EdgeMovingNet: Edge-preserving Point Cloud Reconstruction via Joint Geometry Features
75. CVPR 2025Evaluating Model Perception of Color Illusions in Photorealistic Scenes
76. CVPR 2025EventFly: Event Camera Perception from Ground to the Sky
77. CVPR 2025Exploring Scene Affinity for Semi-Supervised LiDAR Semantic Segmentation
78. CVPR 2025ForestLPR: LiDAR Place Recognition in Forests Attentioning Multiple BEV Density Images
79. CVPR 2025GBlobs: Explicit Local Structure via Gaussian Blobs for Improved Cross-Domain LiDAR-based 3D Object Detection
80. CVPR 2025Generalized Gaussian Entropy Model for Point Cloud Attribute Compression with Dynamic Likelihood Intervals
81. CVPR 2025GraphI2P: Image-to-Point Cloud Registration with Exploring Pattern of Correspondence via Graph Learning
82. CVPR 2025High-Fidelity Lightweight Mesh Reconstruction from Point Clouds
83. CVPR 2025High-quality Point Cloud Oriented Normal Estimation via Hybrid Angular and Euclidean Distance Encoding
84. CVPR 2025HOTFormerLoc: Hierarchical Octree Transformer for Versatile Lidar Place Recognition Across Ground and Aerial Views
85. CVPR 2025Hyperdimensional Uncertainty Quantification for Multimodal Uncertainty Fusion in Autonomous Vehicles Perception
86. CVPR 2025Implicit Correspondence Learning for Image-to-Point Cloud Registration
87. CVPR 2025KVQ: Boosting Video Quality Assessment via Saliency-guided Local Perception
88. CVPR 2025LidarGait++: Learning Local Features and Size Awareness from LiDAR Point Clouds for 3D Gait Recognition
89. CVPR 2025LightLoc: Learning Outdoor LiDAR Localization at Light Speed
90. CVPR 2025LiMoE: Mixture of LiDAR Representation Learners from Automotive Scenes
91. CVPR 2025Multi-Scale Neighborhood Occupancy Masked Autoencoder for Self-Supervised Learning in LiDAR Point Clouds
92. CVPR 2025Neural Inverse Rendering from Propagating Light
93. CVPR 2025NoPain: No-box Point Cloud Attack via Optimal Transport Singular Boundary
94. CVPR 2025One is Plenty: A Polymorphic Feature Interpreter for Immutable Heterogeneous Collaborative Perception
95. CVPR 2025Parametric Point Cloud Completion for Polygonal Surface Reconstruction
96. CVPR 2025Patch Matters: Training-free Fine-grained Image Caption Enhancement via Local Perception
97. CVPR 2025PMA: Towards Parameter-Efficient Point Cloud Understanding via Point Mamba Adapter
98. CVPR 2025PO3AD: Predicting Point Offsets toward Better 3D Point Cloud Anomaly Detection
99. CVPR 2025PointSR: Self-Regularized Point Supervision for Drone-View Object Detection
100. CVPR 2025PSA-SSL: Pose and Size-aware Self-Supervised Learning on LiDAR Point Clouds

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.