# A Fast Location Algorithm for Very Sparse Point Clouds Based on Object Detection

Source: [A Fast Location Algorithm for Very Sparse Point Clouds Based on Object Detection](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa6b0e1e209131cea2bccf>)

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Data updated: 2025-10-25T23:38:16.503Z

Authors: Shiyu Fan

Published: 2021-10-21T05:17:48.000Z

## Abstract

Limited by the performance factor, it is arduous to recognize target object and locate it in Augmented Reality (AR) scenes on low-end mobile devices, especially which using monocular cameras. In this paper, we proposed an algorithm which can quickly locate the target object through image object detection in the circumstances of having very sparse feature points. We introduce YOLOv3-Tiny to our algorithm as the object detection module to filter the possible points and using Principal Component Analysis (PCA) to determine the location. We conduct the experiment in a manually designed scene by holding a smartphone and the results represent high positioning speed and accuracy of our method.

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## Original sources and implementation

[Original paper](<https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.10901>)

[PDF](<https://arxiv.org/pdf/2110.10901.pdf>)