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 1 of 5

1. CVPR 20263D-Object Perception Transformer 3PT
2. CVPR 20264D Local Modeling Toward Dynamic Global Perception for Ambiguity-free Rotation-Invariant
3. CVPR 2026Adaptive 3D Perception for Small Aerial Targets Under Sparse Sampling
4. CVPR 2026AdaRadar Rate Adaptive Spectral Compression for Radar-based Perception
5. CVPR 2026Affine Perspective-Three-Point Problem
6. CVPR 2026AnyPcc Compressing Any Point Cloud with a Single Universal Model
7. CVPR 2026BEV-SLD Self-Supervised Scene Landmark Detection for Global Localization with LiDAR
8. CVPR 2026Bezier Degradation Modeling for LiDAR-based Human Motion Capture
9. CVPR 2026Breaking the Regional Perception Bottleneck of Multimodal Large Language Models
10. CVPR 2026BuildAnyPoint 3D Building Structured Abstraction from Diverse Point Clouds
11. CVPR 2026C-GenReg Training-Free 3D Point Cloud Registration by Multi-View-Consistent Geometry-to-Image Generation
12. CVPR 2026C-LaV Conditional Latent Velocity Field Denoising for Weather-Robust LiDAR Place
13. CVPR 2026CoLC Communication-Efficient Collaborative Perception with LiDAR Completion
14. CVPR 2026Decoding 3D Perception via BrainSSD Synergistic Fusion of EEG Representations
15. CVPR 2026Detect Anything via Next Point Prediction
16. CVPR 2026DSERT-RoLL Robust Multi-Modal Perception for Diverse Driving Conditions with Stereo
17. CVPR 2026DynamicVGGT Learning Dynamic Point Maps for 4D Scene Reconstruction in
18. CVPR 2026Enhancing Descriptive Captions with Visual Attributes for Multimodal Perception
19. CVPR 2026ESAM Efficient Online 3D Perception on the Edge
20. CVPR 2026Extending Embodied Question Answering from Perception to Decision
21. CVPR 2026GEM Generating LiDAR World Model via Deformable Mamba
22. CVPR 2026Generalized-CVO Fast and Correspondence-Free Local Point Cloud Registration with Second
23. CVPR 2026GGPT Geometry-Grounded Point Transformer
24. CVPR 2026Ghost-FWL A Large-Scale Full-Waveform LiDAR Dataset for Ghost Detection and
25. CVPR 2026Ghosts in the Point Clouds De-glaring LiDAR in the Transient
26. CVPR 2026Hybrid Robust Collaborative Perception with LiDAR-4D Radar Fusion under Adverse
27. CVPR 2026Image-to-Point Cloud Feature Back-Projection for Multimodal Training of 3D Semantic
28. CVPR 2026LEADER Learning Reliable Local-to-Global Correspondences for LiDAR Relocalization
29. CVPR 2026Learning to Drive is a Free Gift Large-Scale Label-Free Autonomy
30. CVPR 2026Learning to Identify Out-of-Distribution Objects for 3D LiDAR Anomaly Segmentation
31. CVPR 2026LiDAR Prompted Spatio-Temporal Multi-View Stereo for Autonomous Driving
32. CVPR 2026Linking Modality Isolation in Heterogeneous Collaborative Perception
33. CVPR 2026LiREC-Net A Target-Free and Learning-Based Network for LiDAR RGB and
34. CVPR 2026LitePT Lighter Yet Stronger Point Transformer
35. CVPR 2026Long-SCOPE Fully Sparse Long-Range Cooperative 3D Perception
36. CVPR 2026MS2Gait A Multi-Scale Spatio-Temporal Fusion Network for LiDAR-based Gait Recognition
37. CVPR 2026Nano-EmoX Unifying Multimodal Emotional Intelligence from Perception to Empathy
38. CVPR 2026Neural Distribution Prior for LiDAR Out-of-Distribution Detection
39. CVPR 2026Object-Generalized Re-Identification A Step Towards Universal Instance Perception
40. CVPR 2026PE3R Perception-Efficient 3D Reconstruction
41. CVPR 2026Perception Characteristics Distance Measuring Stability and Robustness of Perception System
42. CVPR 2026PQDT Pseudo-Query Dual Transformer for Robust Point Cloud Restoration
43. CVPR 2026Probabilistic Discrepancy Learning for Roadside LiDAR Scene Completion
44. CVPR 2026Pushing the Frontier of Audiovisual Perception with Large-Scale Multimodal Correspondence
45. CVPR 2026R3-PCQA Ray-Reprojection-Reinforcement for No-Reference 3D Point Cloud Quality Assessment
46. CVPR 2026Routing on Demand DSNet for Efficient Progressive Point Cloud Denoising
47. CVPR 2026S2AM3D Scale-controllable Part Segmentation of 3D Point Clouds
48. CVPR 2026Seeing without Pixels Perception from Camera Trajectories
49. CVPR 2026SoPE Spherical Coordinate-Based Positional Embedding for Enhancing Spatial Perception of
50. CVPR 2026Spectral-Geometric Neural Fields for Pose-Free LiDAR View Synthesis

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.