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 3 of 5

101. CVPR 2025RCP-Bench: Benchmarking Robustness for Collaborative Perception Under Diverse Corruptions
102. CVPR 2025RENO: Real-Time Neural Compression for 3D LiDAR Point Clouds
103. CVPR 2025Sparse Point Cloud Patches Rendering via Splitting 2D Gaussians
104. CVPR 2025Spectral Informed Mamba for Robust Point Cloud Processing
105. CVPR 2025SphereUFormer: A U-Shaped Transformer for Spherical 360 Perception
106. CVPR 2025Toward Robust Neural Reconstruction from Sparse Point Sets
107. CVPR 2025UniMamba: Unified Spatial-Channel Representation Learning with Group-Efficient Mamba for LiDAR-based 3D Object Detection
108. CVPR 2025Unlocking Generalization Power in LiDAR Point Cloud Registration
109. CVPR 2025Unveiling Visual Perception in Language Models: An Attention Head Analysis Approach
110. CVPR 2025V2X-R: Cooperative LiDAR-4D Radar Fusion with Denoising Diffusion for 3D Object Detection
111. CVPR 2025VISTREAM: Improving Computation Efficiency of Visual Streaming Perception via Law-of-Charge-Conservation Inspired Spiking Neural Network
112. CVPR 2025WeatherGen: A Unified Diverse Weather Generator for LiDAR Point Clouds via Spider Mamba Diffusion
113. CVPR 20243D LiDAR Mapping in Dynamic Environments using a 4D Implicit Neural Representation
114. CVPR 2024An Empirical Study of the Generalization Ability of Lidar 3D Object Detectors to Unseen Domains
115. CVPR 2024Building a Strong Pre-Training Baseline for Universal 3D Large-Scale Perception
116. CVPR 2024Communication-Efficient Collaborative Perception via Information Filling with Codebook
117. CVPR 2024Correspondence-Free Non-Rigid Point Set Registration Using Unsupervised Clustering Analysis
118. CVPR 2024Coupled Laplacian Eigenmaps for Locally-Aware 3D Rigid Point Cloud Matching
119. CVPR 2024CurveCloudNet: Processing Point Clouds with 1D Structure
120. CVPR 2024Differentiable Point-based Inverse Rendering
121. CVPR 2024DiffLoc: Diffusion Model for Outdoor LiDAR Localization
122. CVPR 2024Dynamic Cues-Assisted Transformer for Robust Point Cloud Registration
123. CVPR 2024Efficient Solution of Point-Line Absolute Pose
124. CVPR 2024Extend Your Own Correspondences: Unsupervised Distant Point Cloud Registration by Progressive Distance Extension
125. CVPR 2024FSC: Few-point Shape Completion
126. CVPR 2024GAFusion: Adaptive Fusing LiDAR and Camera with Multiple Guidance for 3D Object Detection
127. CVPR 2024GLiDR: Topologically Regularized Graph Generative Network for Sparse LiDAR Point Clouds
128. CVPR 2024ICP-Flow: LiDAR Scene Flow Estimation with ICP
129. CVPR 2024Improving Distant 3D Object Detection Using 2D Box Supervision
130. CVPR 2024Inlier Confidence Calibration for Point Cloud Registration
131. CVPR 2024Instantaneous Perception of Moving Objects in 3D
132. CVPR 2024KPConvX: Modernizing Kernel Point Convolution with Kernel Attention
133. CVPR 2024LiDAR-based Person Re-identification
134. CVPR 2024LiDAR-Net: A Real-scanned 3D Point Cloud Dataset for Indoor Scenes
135. CVPR 2024LiDAR4D: Dynamic Neural Fields for Novel Space-time View LiDAR Synthesis
136. CVPR 2024LidaRF: Delving into Lidar for Neural Radiance Field on Street Scenes
137. CVPR 2024LiSA: LiDAR Localization with Semantic Awareness
138. CVPR 2024Local-consistent Transformation Learning for Rotation-invariant Point Cloud Analysis
139. CVPR 2024LSK3DNet: Towards Effective and Efficient 3D Perception with Large Sparse Kernels
140. CVPR 2024MCD: Diverse Large-Scale Multi-Campus Dataset for Robot Perception
141. CVPR 2024Memory-based Adapters for Online 3D Scene Perception
142. CVPR 2024Multi-Space Alignments Towards Universal LiDAR Segmentation
143. CVPR 2024Multiview Aerial Visual RECognition (MAVREC): Can Multi-view Improve Aerial Visual Perception?
144. CVPR 2024OneFormer3D: One Transformer for Unified Point Cloud Segmentation
145. CVPR 2024PAPR in Motion: Seamless Point-level 3D Scene Interpolation
146. CVPR 2024PBWR: Parametric-Building-Wireframe Reconstruction from Aerial LiDAR Point Clouds
147. CVPR 2024Perception-Oriented Video Frame Interpolation via Asymmetric Blending
148. CVPR 2024PerceptionGPT: Effectively Fusing Visual Perception into LLM
149. CVPR 2024PixelRNN: In-pixel Recurrent Neural Networks for End-to-end-optimized Perception with Neural Sensors
150. CVPR 2024PlatoNeRF: 3D Reconstruction in Plato's Cave via Single-View Two-Bounce Lidar

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.