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

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51. CVPR 2023ProxyFormer: Proxy Alignment Assisted Point Cloud Completion With Missing Part Sensitive Transformer
52. CVPR 2023PVT-SSD: Single-Stage 3D Object Detector With Point-Voxel Transformer
53. CVPR 2023Rethinking the Approximation Error in 3D Surface Fitting for Point Cloud Normal Estimation
54. CVPR 2023Rotation-Invariant Transformer for Point Cloud Matching
55. CVPR 2023SCPNet: Semantic Scene Completion on Point Cloud
56. CVPR 2023SGLoc: Scene Geometry Encoding for Outdoor LiDAR Localization
57. CVPR 2023Single Domain Generalization for LiDAR Semantic Segmentation
58. CVPR 2023Skinned Motion Retargeting With Residual Perception of Motion Semantics & Geometry
59. CVPR 2023SlowLiDAR: Increasing the Latency of LiDAR-Based Detection Using Adversarial Examples
60. CVPR 2023Spherical Transformer for LiDAR-Based 3D Recognition
61. CVPR 2023Starting From Non-Parametric Networks for 3D Point Cloud Analysis
62. CVPR 2023Temporal Consistent 3D LiDAR Representation Learning for Semantic Perception in Autonomous Driving
63. CVPR 2023Towards Unsupervised Object Detection From LiDAR Point Clouds
64. CVPR 2023TriVol: Point Cloud Rendering via Triple Volumes
65. CVPR 2023Unsupervised 3D Point Cloud Representation Learning by Triangle Constrained Contrast for Autonomous Driving
66. CVPR 2023Unsupervised Intrinsic Image Decomposition With LiDAR Intensity
67. CVPR 2023V2V4Real: A Real-World Large-Scale Dataset for Vehicle-to-Vehicle Cooperative Perception
68. ICLR 2023BEVDistill: Cross-Modal BEV Distillation for Multi-View 3D Object Detection
69. ICLR 2023Bidirectional Propagation for Cross-Modal 3D Object Detection
70. ICLR 2023CircNet: Meshing 3D Point Clouds with Circumcenter Detection
71. ICLR 2023Exploring Active 3D Object Detection from a Generalization Perspective
72. ICLR 2023LiftedCL: Lifting Contrastive Learning for Human-Centric Perception
73. ICML 2023Robust Perception through Equivariance
74. ICML 2023Topological Point Cloud Clustering
75. NeurIPS 2023Asynchrony-Robust Collaborative Perception via Bird's Eye View Flow
76. NeurIPS 2023CluB: Cluster Meets BEV for LiDAR-Based 3D Object Detection
77. NeurIPS 2023ConDaFormer: Disassembled Transformer with Local Structure Enhancement for 3D Point Cloud Understanding
78. NeurIPS 2023E2PNet: Event to Point Cloud Registration with Spatio-Temporal Representation Learning
79. NeurIPS 2023InfoCD: A Contrastive Chamfer Distance Loss for Point Cloud Completion
80. NeurIPS 2023PRED: Pre-training via Semantic Rendering on LiDAR Point Clouds
81. NeurIPS 2023PromptRestorer: A Prompting Image Restoration Method with Degradation Perception
82. NeurIPS 2023Real3D-AD: A Dataset of Point Cloud Anomaly Detection
83. NeurIPS 2023Uni3DETR: Unified 3D Detection Transformer
84. NeurIPS 2023Unleash the Potential of Image Branch for Cross-modal 3D Object Detection

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.