Test Time Adaptation Methods for Point Cloud Registration in Laparoscopic Surgery

[2608.02883] Test Time Adaptation Methods for Point Cloud Registration in Laparoscopic Surgery Skip to main content Search Submit Donate Log in Computer Science > Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition arXiv:2608.02883 (cs) [Submitted on 3 Aug 2026 ( v1 ), last revised 23 Sep 2026 (this version, v3)] Title: Test Time Adaptation Methods for Point Cloud Registration in Laparoscopic Surgery Authors: Nina Bodelot , Soufiane Belharbi , Eric Granger View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract: 3D point cloud registration in laparoscopic surgery estimates the transformation between an intraoperative organ reconstructed from video and its preoperative mesh. Because ground-truth transformations are unavailable for real data, supervised networks are trained on synthetic organ pairs. At test time, real reconstructions differ from synthetic data and are noisy, sparse, and occluded, which degrades correspondence estimation. Test-time adaptation (TTA) can reduce this domain shift, but existing methods mainly rely on logits, entropy, class prototypes, or cache memories unavailable in registration. Registration also involves paired inputs with an asymmetric shift that primarily affects the intraoperative cloud. We analyse and modify state-of-the-art TTA methods from three families to 3D registration: model, normalization, and input adaptation. We analyze four representative approaches based on auxiliary-task model updates, backpropagation-free token purging, feature alignment, and layer-normalization calibration. We modify them to handle asymmetric shifts between preoperative and intraoperative point clouds and replace classification-based entropy objectives. Using a correspondence-based model trained on clean synthetic source data, we evaluate adaptation to corrupted synthetic and real target data on P2P and P2ILReg. For synthetic targets, we apply eight corruptions, including uniform noise and global density reduction, at five severity levels. All methods improve registration on P2P, whereas on P2ILReg only input adaptation reduces the error, while normalization adaptation degrades it. Considering the computational overhead of backpropagation-based adaptation, input adaptation is the most promising option for laparoscopic surgery, providing low inference latency and consistent error reductions across datasets. Code: this https URL Subjects: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV) Cite as: arXiv:2608.02883 [cs.CV] (or arXiv:2608.02883v3 [cs.CV] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2608.02883 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite Submission history From: Nina Bodelot [ view email ] [v1] Mon, 3 Aug 2026 21:11:13 UTC (452 KB) [v2] Wed, 26 Aug 2026 20:23:28 UTC (451 KB) [v3] Wed, 23 Sep 2026 02:35:44 UTC (16,540 KB) Full-text links: Access Paper: View PDF HTML (experimental) TeX Source view license Current browse context: cs.CV < prev | next > new | recent | 2026-08 Change to browse by: cs References & Citations NASA ADS Google Scholar Semantic Scholar export BibTeX citation Bookmark Bibliographic Tools Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer Toggle Bibliographic Explorer ( What is the Explorer? ) Connected Papers Toggle Connected Papers ( What is Connected Papers? ) Litmaps Toggle Litmaps ( What is Litmaps? ) scite.ai Toggle scite Smart Citations ( What are Smart Citations? ) Code, Data, Media Code, Data and Media Associated with this Article alphaXiv Toggle alphaXiv ( What is alphaXiv? ) Links to Code Toggle CatalyzeX Code Finder for Papers ( What is CatalyzeX? ) DagsHub Toggle DagsHub ( What is DagsHub? ) GotitPub Toggle Gotit.pub ( What is GotitPub? ) Huggingface Toggle Hugging Face ( What is Huggingface? ) ScienceCast Toggle ScienceCast ( What is ScienceCast? ) Demos Demos Replicate Toggle Replicate ( What is Replicate? ) Spaces Toggle Hugging Face Spaces ( What is Spaces? ) Spaces Toggle TXYZ.AI ( What is TXYZ.AI? ) Related Papers Recommenders and Search Tools Link to Influence Flower Influence Flower ( What are Influence Flowers? ) Core recommender toggle CORE Recommender ( What is CORE? ) Author Venue Institution Topic About arXivLabs arXivLabs: experimental projects with community collaborators arXivLabs is a framework that allows collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on our website. Both individuals and organizations that work with arXivLabs have embraced and accepted our values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only works with partners that adhere to them. Have an idea for a project that will add value for arXiv's community? Learn more about arXivLabs . Which authors of this paper are endorsers? | Disable MathJax ( What is MathJax? ) We gratefully acknowledge support from our major funders , member institutions , and all contributors. About · Help · Contact · Subscribe · Copyright · Privacy · Accessibility · Operational Status (opens in new tab) Major funding support from

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