Iterative Closest Point Method with a Least Trimmed Squares Estimator

The iterative closest point (ICP) method is one of the most important methods for 2D/3D point registration. Robust statistical method is applied widely for improving the robustness of ICP. A new method that incorporates the Least Trimmed Squares (LTS) Estimator into the ICP is proposed in this paper. In this method, outliers are removed according to characteristics of residual distribution. A large number of experimental results show that the proposed method is robust and efficient.