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

75 papers, page 1 of 2

1. NeurIPS 2026Benchmark for Assessing Olfactory Perception of Large Language Models
2. NeurIPS 2026BiLi: Bridging the Last Mile in LiDAR Localization
3. NeurIPS 2026CMI-Trans: Cross Modal Inconsistency-aware Transport for HSI-LiDAR Classification
4. NeurIPS 2026Cross-Modal Prior-Guided Training with Visual Foundation Models for Unsupervised LiDAR Point Cloud Registration
5. NeurIPS 2026Diffusion Masked Pretraining for Dynamic Point Cloud
6. NeurIPS 2026FIND: Frequency Invariance Disentanglement for Test-Time Adaptation in LiDAR 3D Detection
7. NeurIPS 2026Flow Map Denoisers: Traversing the Distortion-Perception Plane for Inverse Problems
8. NeurIPS 2026HuPER: A Human-Inspired Framework for Phonetic Perception
9. NeurIPS 2026Hyper Hawkes Processes: Interpretable Models of Marked Temporal Point Processes
10. NeurIPS 2026Illusory Pattern Perception Drives Spurious Inference in Large Language Models
11. NeurIPS 2026LR-V2X: Loss Resilient Collaborative Perception under Low-Bandwidth Communication
12. NeurIPS 2026MemReg: Streaming Outdoor LiDAR Point Cloud Registration with Hybrid Memory Buffers
13. NeurIPS 2026mmLIP: mmWave Radar-Language Interactive Pretraining via Point Confidence
14. NeurIPS 2026Motion Cues from Image-based Point Tracking for LiDAR Scene Flow Estimation
15. NeurIPS 2026Neural Reconstruction of LiDAR Point Clouds under Jamming Attacks via Full-Waveform Representation and Simultaneous Laser Sensing
16. NeurIPS 2026OHATP: Graph Anomaly Detection with Orthogonal-Hyperspherical Augmentation and Topology Perception
17. NeurIPS 2026Perception for Action in Latent World Models
18. NeurIPS 2026PhysVista: Benchmarking Physical Intelligence in VLMs via a Perception-Reasoning-Assessment Loop
19. NeurIPS 2026Point Clustering Encoders
20. NeurIPS 2026RESBev: Making BEV Perception More Robust
21. NeurIPS 2026Rethinking Geometric Depth in Monocular 3D Object Detection: A Projection-Consistent Reformulation
22. NeurIPS 2026RSPReg: Reliability-aware Structural Prototype Learning for Point Cloud Registration
23. NeurIPS 2026SFPR: Structural Fingerprinting for LiDAR-to-OpenStreetMap Place Recognition
24. NeurIPS 2026State Evolution Awareness for Category-agnostic 3D Point Cloud Tracking
25. NeurIPS 2026Tactile MNIST: Benchmarking Active Tactile Perception
26. NeurIPS 2025D$^2$GS: Dense Depth Regularization for LiDAR-free Urban Scene Reconstruction
27. NeurIPS 2025FlexEvent: Towards Flexible Event-Frame Object Detection at Varying Operational Frequencies
28. NeurIPS 2025GTR-Loc: Geospatial Text Regularization Assisted Outdoor LiDAR Localization
29. NeurIPS 2025How Many Tokens Do 3D Point Cloud Transformer Architectures Really Need?
30. NeurIPS 2025L2RSI: Cross-view LiDAR-based Place Recognition for Large-scale Urban Scenes via Remote Sensing Imagery
31. NeurIPS 2025Multimodal LiDAR-Camera Novel View Synthesis with Unified Pose-free Neural Fields
32. NeurIPS 2025Optimal Neural Compressors for the Rate-Distortion-Perception Tradeoff
33. NeurIPS 2025Point Cloud Synthesis Using Inner Product Transforms
34. NeurIPS 2025Point4Bit: Post Training 4-bit Quantization for Point Cloud 3D Detection
35. NeurIPS 2025PointMAC: Meta-Learned Adaptation for Robust Test-Time Point Cloud Completion
36. NeurIPS 2025PointTruss: K-Truss for Point Cloud Registration
37. NeurIPS 2025RAPID Hand: Robust, Affordable, Perception-Integrated, Dexterous Manipulation Platfrom for Embodied Intelligence
38. NeurIPS 2025RayFusion: Ray Fusion Enhanced Collaborative Visual Perception
39. NeurIPS 2025Rectified Point Flow: Generic Point Cloud Pose Estimation
40. NeurIPS 2025Registration is a Powerful Rotation-Invariance Learner for 3D Anomaly Detection
41. NeurIPS 2025SQS: Enhancing Sparse Perception Models via Query-based Splatting in Autonomous Driving
42. NeurIPS 2025Token Embeddings Violate the Manifold Hypothesis
43. NeurIPS 2025TREND: Unsupervised 3D Representation Learning via Temporal Forecasting for LiDAR Perception
44. NeurIPS 2025Unveiling Transformer Perception by Exploring Input Manifolds
45. NeurIPS 2025V2X-Radar: A Multi-modal Dataset with 4D Radar for Cooperative Perception
46. NeurIPS 2025What We Miss Matters: Learning from the Overlooked in Point Cloud Transformers
47. NeurIPS 2024Active Perception for Grasp Detection via Neural Graspness Field
48. NeurIPS 2024AlterMOMA: Fusion Redundancy Pruning for Camera-LiDAR Fusion Models with Alternative Modality Masking
49. NeurIPS 2024Asynchronous Perception Machine for Efficient Test Time Training
50. NeurIPS 2024GeoNLF: Geometry guided Pose-Free Neural LiDAR Fields

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.