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Functional Registration: Scale-Invariant Fast

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This lecture presents the paper 'Scale-Invariant Fast Functional Registration' by M. Sun, A. Pinosky, I. Abraham, T. Murphey. The lecture covers point cloud registration, feature extraction, correspondence-free registration, and decoupled scale estimation. It discusses the representation of point clouds as mixtures of delta-functions and benchmark tests on robustness, computational complexity, and accuracy.

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