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

21 papers, page 1 of 1

1. NeurIPS 2025D$^2$GS: Dense Depth Regularization for LiDAR-free Urban Scene Reconstruction
2. NeurIPS 2025FlexEvent: Towards Flexible Event-Frame Object Detection at Varying Operational Frequencies
3. NeurIPS 2025GTR-Loc: Geospatial Text Regularization Assisted Outdoor LiDAR Localization
4. NeurIPS 2025How Many Tokens Do 3D Point Cloud Transformer Architectures Really Need?
5. NeurIPS 2025L2RSI: Cross-view LiDAR-based Place Recognition for Large-scale Urban Scenes via Remote Sensing Imagery
6. NeurIPS 2025Multimodal LiDAR-Camera Novel View Synthesis with Unified Pose-free Neural Fields
7. NeurIPS 2025Optimal Neural Compressors for the Rate-Distortion-Perception Tradeoff
8. NeurIPS 2025Point Cloud Synthesis Using Inner Product Transforms
9. NeurIPS 2025Point4Bit: Post Training 4-bit Quantization for Point Cloud 3D Detection
10. NeurIPS 2025PointMAC: Meta-Learned Adaptation for Robust Test-Time Point Cloud Completion
11. NeurIPS 2025PointTruss: K-Truss for Point Cloud Registration
12. NeurIPS 2025RAPID Hand: Robust, Affordable, Perception-Integrated, Dexterous Manipulation Platfrom for Embodied Intelligence
13. NeurIPS 2025RayFusion: Ray Fusion Enhanced Collaborative Visual Perception
14. NeurIPS 2025Rectified Point Flow: Generic Point Cloud Pose Estimation
15. NeurIPS 2025Registration is a Powerful Rotation-Invariance Learner for 3D Anomaly Detection
16. NeurIPS 2025SQS: Enhancing Sparse Perception Models via Query-based Splatting in Autonomous Driving
17. NeurIPS 2025Token Embeddings Violate the Manifold Hypothesis
18. NeurIPS 2025TREND: Unsupervised 3D Representation Learning via Temporal Forecasting for LiDAR Perception
19. NeurIPS 2025Unveiling Transformer Perception by Exploring Input Manifolds
20. NeurIPS 2025V2X-Radar: A Multi-modal Dataset with 4D Radar for Cooperative Perception
21. NeurIPS 2025What We Miss Matters: Learning from the Overlooked in Point Cloud Transformers

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.