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

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1. CVPR 20253D-AVS: LiDAR-based 3D Auto-Vocabulary Segmentation
2. CVPR 2025Adapting Pre-trained 3D Models for Point Cloud Video Understanding via Cross-frame Spatio-temporal Perception
3. CVPR 2025BIP3D: Bridging 2D Images and 3D Perception for Embodied Intelligence
4. CVPR 2025BWFormer: Building Wireframe Reconstruction from Airborne LiDAR Point Cloud with Transformer
5. CVPR 2025CamPoint: Boosting Point Cloud Segmentation with Virtual Camera
6. CVPR 2025ColabSfM: Collaborative Structure-from-Motion by Point Cloud Registration
7. CVPR 2025Continuous 3D Perception Model with Persistent State
8. CVPR 2025DeepLA-Net: Very Deep Local Aggregation Networks for Point Cloud Analysis
9. CVPR 2025DiffLO: Semantic-Aware LiDAR Odometry with Diffusion-Based Refinement
10. CVPR 2025DiskVPS: Vanishing Point Detector via Hough Transform in a Disk Region
11. CVPR 2025Distilling Spatially-Heterogeneous Distortion Perception for Blind Image Quality Assessment
12. CVPR 2025DSPNet: Dual-vision Scene Perception for Robust 3D Question Answering
13. CVPR 2025Dual Focus-Attention Transformer for Robust Point Cloud Registration
14. CVPR 2025DV-Matcher: Deformation-based Non-rigid Point Cloud Matching Guided by Pre-trained Visual Features
15. CVPR 2025EdgeMovingNet: Edge-preserving Point Cloud Reconstruction via Joint Geometry Features
16. CVPR 2025Evaluating Model Perception of Color Illusions in Photorealistic Scenes
17. CVPR 2025EventFly: Event Camera Perception from Ground to the Sky
18. CVPR 2025Exploring Scene Affinity for Semi-Supervised LiDAR Semantic Segmentation
19. CVPR 2025ForestLPR: LiDAR Place Recognition in Forests Attentioning Multiple BEV Density Images
20. CVPR 2025GBlobs: Explicit Local Structure via Gaussian Blobs for Improved Cross-Domain LiDAR-based 3D Object Detection
21. CVPR 2025Generalized Gaussian Entropy Model for Point Cloud Attribute Compression with Dynamic Likelihood Intervals
22. CVPR 2025GraphI2P: Image-to-Point Cloud Registration with Exploring Pattern of Correspondence via Graph Learning
23. CVPR 2025High-Fidelity Lightweight Mesh Reconstruction from Point Clouds
24. CVPR 2025High-quality Point Cloud Oriented Normal Estimation via Hybrid Angular and Euclidean Distance Encoding
25. CVPR 2025HOTFormerLoc: Hierarchical Octree Transformer for Versatile Lidar Place Recognition Across Ground and Aerial Views
26. CVPR 2025Hyperdimensional Uncertainty Quantification for Multimodal Uncertainty Fusion in Autonomous Vehicles Perception
27. CVPR 2025Implicit Correspondence Learning for Image-to-Point Cloud Registration
28. CVPR 2025KVQ: Boosting Video Quality Assessment via Saliency-guided Local Perception
29. CVPR 2025LidarGait++: Learning Local Features and Size Awareness from LiDAR Point Clouds for 3D Gait Recognition
30. CVPR 2025LightLoc: Learning Outdoor LiDAR Localization at Light Speed
31. CVPR 2025LiMoE: Mixture of LiDAR Representation Learners from Automotive Scenes
32. CVPR 2025Multi-Scale Neighborhood Occupancy Masked Autoencoder for Self-Supervised Learning in LiDAR Point Clouds
33. CVPR 2025Neural Inverse Rendering from Propagating Light
34. CVPR 2025NoPain: No-box Point Cloud Attack via Optimal Transport Singular Boundary
35. CVPR 2025One is Plenty: A Polymorphic Feature Interpreter for Immutable Heterogeneous Collaborative Perception
36. CVPR 2025Parametric Point Cloud Completion for Polygonal Surface Reconstruction
37. CVPR 2025Patch Matters: Training-free Fine-grained Image Caption Enhancement via Local Perception
38. CVPR 2025PMA: Towards Parameter-Efficient Point Cloud Understanding via Point Mamba Adapter
39. CVPR 2025PO3AD: Predicting Point Offsets toward Better 3D Point Cloud Anomaly Detection
40. CVPR 2025PointSR: Self-Regularized Point Supervision for Drone-View Object Detection
41. CVPR 2025PSA-SSL: Pose and Size-aware Self-Supervised Learning on LiDAR Point Clouds
42. CVPR 2025RCP-Bench: Benchmarking Robustness for Collaborative Perception Under Diverse Corruptions
43. CVPR 2025RENO: Real-Time Neural Compression for 3D LiDAR Point Clouds
44. CVPR 2025Sparse Point Cloud Patches Rendering via Splitting 2D Gaussians
45. CVPR 2025Spectral Informed Mamba for Robust Point Cloud Processing
46. CVPR 2025SphereUFormer: A U-Shaped Transformer for Spherical 360 Perception
47. CVPR 2025Toward Robust Neural Reconstruction from Sparse Point Sets
48. CVPR 2025UniMamba: Unified Spatial-Channel Representation Learning with Group-Efficient Mamba for LiDAR-based 3D Object Detection
49. CVPR 2025Unlocking Generalization Power in LiDAR Point Cloud Registration
50. CVPR 2025Unveiling Visual Perception in Language Models: An Attention Head Analysis Approach

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.