LiDAR Perception papers, 2023–2026
Point cloud detection
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 360 papers are tagged with this topic.
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.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 67 | 84 |
| 2024 | 19 | 5 | 4 | 62 | 90 |
| 2025 | 21 | 5 | 7 | 53 | 86 |
| 2026 | 25 | 5 | 10 | 60 | 100 |
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
67 papers, page 2 of 2
- CVPR 2023ProxyFormer: Proxy Alignment Assisted Point Cloud Completion With Missing Part Sensitive Transformer
- CVPR 2023PVT-SSD: Single-Stage 3D Object Detector With Point-Voxel Transformer
- CVPR 2023Rethinking the Approximation Error in 3D Surface Fitting for Point Cloud Normal Estimation
- CVPR 2023Rotation-Invariant Transformer for Point Cloud Matching
- CVPR 2023SCPNet: Semantic Scene Completion on Point Cloud
- CVPR 2023SGLoc: Scene Geometry Encoding for Outdoor LiDAR Localization
- CVPR 2023Single Domain Generalization for LiDAR Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2023Skinned Motion Retargeting With Residual Perception of Motion Semantics & Geometry
- CVPR 2023SlowLiDAR: Increasing the Latency of LiDAR-Based Detection Using Adversarial Examples
- CVPR 2023Spherical Transformer for LiDAR-Based 3D Recognition
- CVPR 2023Starting From Non-Parametric Networks for 3D Point Cloud Analysis
- CVPR 2023Temporal Consistent 3D LiDAR Representation Learning for Semantic Perception in Autonomous Driving
- CVPR 2023Towards Unsupervised Object Detection From LiDAR Point Clouds
- CVPR 2023TriVol: Point Cloud Rendering via Triple Volumes
- CVPR 2023Unsupervised 3D Point Cloud Representation Learning by Triangle Constrained Contrast for Autonomous Driving
- CVPR 2023Unsupervised Intrinsic Image Decomposition With LiDAR Intensity
- CVPR 2023V2V4Real: A Real-World Large-Scale Dataset for Vehicle-to-Vehicle Cooperative Perception
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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.