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 7 of 8

301. CVPR 2023LiDAR-in-the-Loop Hyperparameter Optimization
302. CVPR 2023LiDAR2Map: In Defense of LiDAR-Based Semantic Map Construction Using Online Camera Distillation
303. CVPR 2023LinK: Linear Kernel for LiDAR-Based 3D Perception
304. CVPR 2023Mapping Degeneration Meets Label Evolution: Learning Infrared Small Target Detection With Single Point Supervision
305. CVPR 2023Meta Architecture for Point Cloud Analysis
306. CVPR 2023MoDAR: Using Motion Forecasting for 3D Object Detection in Point Cloud Sequences
307. CVPR 2023MSF: Motion-Guided Sequential Fusion for Efficient 3D Object Detection From Point Cloud Sequences
308. CVPR 2023MSMDFusion: Fusing LiDAR and Camera at Multiple Scales With Multi-Depth Seeds for 3D Object Detection
309. CVPR 2023MV-JAR: Masked Voxel Jigsaw and Reconstruction for LiDAR-Based Self-Supervised Pre-Training
310. CVPR 2023NerVE: Neural Volumetric Edges for Parametric Curve Extraction From Point Cloud
311. CVPR 2023Neural Intrinsic Embedding for Non-Rigid Point Cloud Matching
312. CVPR 2023NeuralEditor: Editing Neural Radiance Fields via Manipulating Point Clouds
313. CVPR 2023OcTr: Octree-Based Transformer for 3D Object Detection
314. CVPR 2023PEAL: Prior-Embedded Explicit Attention Learning for Low-Overlap Point Cloud Registration
315. CVPR 2023Perception-Oriented Single Image Super-Resolution Using Optimal Objective Estimation
316. CVPR 2023PillarNeXt: Rethinking Network Designs for 3D Object Detection in LiDAR Point Clouds
317. CVPR 2023Point Cloud Forecasting as a Proxy for 4D Occupancy Forecasting
318. CVPR 2023Point2Pix: Photo-Realistic Point Cloud Rendering via Neural Radiance Fields
319. CVPR 2023PointCert: Point Cloud Classification With Deterministic Certified Robustness Guarantees
320. CVPR 2023PointClustering: Unsupervised Point Cloud Pre-Training Using Transformation Invariance in Clustering
321. CVPR 2023PointConvFormer: Revenge of the Point-Based Convolution
322. CVPR 2023Pointersect: Neural Rendering With Cloud-Ray Intersection
323. CVPR 2023PointListNet: Deep Learning on 3D Point Lists
324. CVPR 2023PointVector: A Vector Representation in Point Cloud Analysis
325. CVPR 2023Poly-PC: A Polyhedral Network for Multiple Point Cloud Tasks at Once
326. CVPR 2023ProxyFormer: Proxy Alignment Assisted Point Cloud Completion With Missing Part Sensitive Transformer
327. CVPR 2023PVT-SSD: Single-Stage 3D Object Detector With Point-Voxel Transformer
328. CVPR 2023Rethinking the Approximation Error in 3D Surface Fitting for Point Cloud Normal Estimation
329. CVPR 2023Rotation-Invariant Transformer for Point Cloud Matching
330. CVPR 2023SCPNet: Semantic Scene Completion on Point Cloud
331. CVPR 2023SGLoc: Scene Geometry Encoding for Outdoor LiDAR Localization
332. CVPR 2023Single Domain Generalization for LiDAR Semantic Segmentation
333. CVPR 2023Skinned Motion Retargeting With Residual Perception of Motion Semantics & Geometry
334. CVPR 2023SlowLiDAR: Increasing the Latency of LiDAR-Based Detection Using Adversarial Examples
335. CVPR 2023Spherical Transformer for LiDAR-Based 3D Recognition
336. CVPR 2023Starting From Non-Parametric Networks for 3D Point Cloud Analysis
337. CVPR 2023Temporal Consistent 3D LiDAR Representation Learning for Semantic Perception in Autonomous Driving
338. CVPR 2023Towards Unsupervised Object Detection From LiDAR Point Clouds
339. CVPR 2023TriVol: Point Cloud Rendering via Triple Volumes
340. CVPR 2023Unsupervised 3D Point Cloud Representation Learning by Triangle Constrained Contrast for Autonomous Driving
341. CVPR 2023Unsupervised Intrinsic Image Decomposition With LiDAR Intensity
342. CVPR 2023V2V4Real: A Real-World Large-Scale Dataset for Vehicle-to-Vehicle Cooperative Perception
343. ICLR 2023BEVDistill: Cross-Modal BEV Distillation for Multi-View 3D Object Detection
344. ICLR 2023Bidirectional Propagation for Cross-Modal 3D Object Detection
345. ICLR 2023CircNet: Meshing 3D Point Clouds with Circumcenter Detection
346. ICLR 2023Exploring Active 3D Object Detection from a Generalization Perspective
347. ICLR 2023LiftedCL: Lifting Contrastive Learning for Human-Centric Perception
348. ICML 2023Robust Perception through Equivariance
349. ICML 2023Topological Point Cloud Clustering
350. NeurIPS 2023Asynchrony-Robust Collaborative Perception via Bird's Eye View Flow

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.