LiDAR Perception papers, 2023–2026
Point cloud detection
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 360 papers are tagged with this topic.
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.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 67 | 84 |
| 2024 | 19 | 5 | 4 | 62 | 90 |
| 2025 | 21 | 5 | 7 | 53 | 86 |
| 2026 | 25 | 5 | 10 | 60 | 100 |
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
19 papers, page 1 of 1
- NeurIPS 2024Active Perception for Grasp Detection via Neural Graspness Field
- NeurIPS 2024AlterMOMA: Fusion Redundancy Pruning for Camera-LiDAR Fusion Models with Alternative Modality Masking
- NeurIPS 2024Asynchronous Perception Machine for Efficient Test Time Training
- NeurIPS 2024GeoNLF: Geometry guided Pose-Free Neural LiDAR Fields
- NeurIPS 2024Inference on the Change Point under a High Dimensional Covariance Shift
- NeurIPS 2024Just Add $100 More: Augmenting Pseudo-LiDAR Point Cloud for Resolving Class-imbalance Problem
- NeurIPS 2024LION: Linear Group RNN for 3D Object Detection in Point Clouds
- NeurIPS 2024LiT: Unifying LiDAR "Languages" with LiDAR Translator
- NeurIPS 2024Nonparametric Regression for 3D Point Cloud Learning
- NeurIPS 2024One for All: Multi-Domain Joint Training for Point Cloud Based 3D Object Detection
- NeurIPS 2024Point Cloud Matters: Rethinking the Impact of Different Observation Spaces on Robot Learning
- NeurIPS 2024Real-time Stereo-based 3D Object Detection for Streaming Perception
- NeurIPS 2024RETR: Multi-View Radar Detection Transformer for Indoor Perception
- NeurIPS 2024SE(3)-bi-equivariant Transformers for Point Cloud Assembly
- NeurIPS 2024Spherical Frustum Sparse Convolution Network for LiDAR Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation
- NeurIPS 2024TAPTRv2: Attention-based Position Update Improves Tracking Any Point
- NeurIPS 2024Towards Flexible 3D Perception: Object-Centric Occupancy Completion Augments 3D Object Detection
- NeurIPS 2024UAV3D: A Large-scale 3D Perception Benchmark for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
- NeurIPS 2024Voxel Mamba: Group-Free State Space Models for Point Cloud based 3D Object Detection
Ask about this trend from Claude or Cursor
Connect the Paperlist MCP and your assistant can pull the numbers on this page while you draft a survey, pick a direction or plan a submission: papers per year and venue, growth, the fastest-rising sub-themes and representative papers, shaped around your question.
Copy this prompt into your assistant
Use paperlist to show how LiDAR Perception papers grew at CVPR from 2023 to 2026, and which year jumped the most.
Tool the assistant calls: get_topic_stats {"topic": "lidar-perception"}
Set up Paperlist MCP in two minutes (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, ChatGPT)
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.