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pytorch3d/tests/test_points_alignment.py
Jeremy Reizenstein a081d766b0 Fix flaky ICP test_heterogeneous_inputs
Summary:
`TestICP.test_heterogeneous_inputs` has been failing intermittently for a long
time. The seed was already bumped from 4 to 14 in D80625966 for the same
reason, which relocated the failure rather than removing it.

Root cause: the test aligned two independent random point clouds, and with
`estimate_scale=True` that problem is ill-posed. ICP almost always collapses
`X` onto a single point of `Y`, driving `s` to ~1e-16 and the rmse to zero.
That solution fits perfectly, but the rotation of a cloud that has shrunk to a
point is completely unconstrained, so the batched run and the per-cloud runs
each returned an arbitrary, and different, `R`. Over 600 seeds of the old data
~45% of batch elements collapsed, and every element that exceeded the
tolerance was a collapsed one, with `R` the only quantity that disagreed
(`T`, `s` and `Xt` always matched). This is the same non-uniqueness that
`corresponding_points_alignment` warns about with "Excessively low rank of
cross-correlation".

Which seeds tripped over it came down to float32 rounding: the batched path
sums over the zero-weighted padding and the per-cloud path does not, so the
two differ by ~1e-7, and that difference decides which arbitrary rotation
comes out. It therefore moves with GPU model, BLAS version and TF32, which is
why picking a seed was never a fix - forcing TF32 on makes seed 14 fail
immediately.

Fix: build `Y` as a rigidly moved copy of `X` plus a few extra points. The
clouds still have different sizes within a batch and between `X` and `Y`, so
the padding and masking path is exercised exactly as before, but the alignment
now has a well-determined optimum that ICP cannot collapse.

Also loosen `atol` from 1e-5 to 1e-4. That is needed independently of the
collapse: the two runs sum a different number of terms and so round
differently, and the legitimate deviation on `Xt` reaches 1.17e-5, above the
old tolerance. That was a second latent failure waiting to happen.

The test no longer emits the "Excessively low rank of cross-correlation"
warning, which is the collapse disappearing.

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Differential Revision: D117539518

fbshipit-source-id: 73e3d70a8f7547de7179b71e6a705fc37f4920c7
2026-08-26 10:47:50 -07:00

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# Copyright (c) Meta Platforms, Inc. and affiliates.
# All rights reserved.
#
# This source code is licensed under the BSD-style license found in the
# LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
import unittest
import numpy as np
import torch
from pytorch3d.ops import points_alignment
from pytorch3d.structures.pointclouds import Pointclouds
from pytorch3d.transforms import rotation_conversions
from .common_testing import get_tests_dir, TestCaseMixin
def _apply_pcl_transformation(X, R, T, s=None):
"""
Apply a batch of similarity/rigid transformations, parametrized with
rotation `R`, translation `T` and scale `s`, to an input batch of
point clouds `X`.
"""
if isinstance(X, Pointclouds):
num_points = X.num_points_per_cloud()
X_t = X.points_padded()
else:
X_t = X
if s is not None:
X_t = s[:, None, None] * X_t
X_t = torch.bmm(X_t, R) + T[:, None, :]
if isinstance(X, Pointclouds):
X_list = [x[:n_p] for x, n_p in zip(X_t, num_points)]
X_t = Pointclouds(X_list)
return X_t
class TestICP(TestCaseMixin, unittest.TestCase):
def setUp(self) -> None:
super().setUp()
torch.manual_seed(42)
np.random.seed(42)
trimesh_results_path = get_tests_dir() / "data/icp_data.pth"
self.trimesh_results = torch.load(trimesh_results_path)
@staticmethod
def iterative_closest_point(
batch_size=10,
n_points_X=100,
n_points_Y=100,
dim=3,
use_pointclouds=False,
estimate_scale=False,
):
device = torch.device("cuda:0")
# initialize a ground truth point cloud
X, Y = [
TestCorrespondingPointsAlignment.init_point_cloud(
batch_size=batch_size,
n_points=n_points,
dim=dim,
device=device,
use_pointclouds=use_pointclouds,
random_pcl_size=True,
fix_seed=i,
)
for i, n_points in enumerate((n_points_X, n_points_Y))
]
torch.cuda.synchronize()
def run_iterative_closest_point():
points_alignment.iterative_closest_point(
X,
Y,
estimate_scale=estimate_scale,
allow_reflection=False,
verbose=False,
max_iterations=100,
relative_rmse_thr=1e-4,
)
torch.cuda.synchronize()
return run_iterative_closest_point
def test_init_transformation(self, batch_size=10):
"""
First runs a full ICP on a random problem. Then takes a given point
in the history of ICP iteration transformations, initializes
a second run of ICP with this transformation and checks whether
both runs ended with the same solution.
"""
device = torch.device("cuda:0")
for dim in (2, 3, 11):
for n_points_X in (30, 100):
for n_points_Y in (30, 100):
# initialize ground truth point clouds
X, Y = [
TestCorrespondingPointsAlignment.init_point_cloud(
batch_size=batch_size,
n_points=n_points,
dim=dim,
device=device,
use_pointclouds=False,
random_pcl_size=True,
)
for n_points in (n_points_X, n_points_Y)
]
# run full icp
(
converged,
_,
Xt,
(R, T, s),
t_hist,
) = points_alignment.iterative_closest_point(
X,
Y,
estimate_scale=False,
allow_reflection=False,
verbose=False,
max_iterations=100,
)
# start from the solution after the third
# iteration of the previous ICP
t_init = t_hist[min(2, len(t_hist) - 1)]
# rerun the ICP
(
converged_init,
_,
Xt_init,
(R_init, T_init, s_init),
t_hist_init,
) = points_alignment.iterative_closest_point(
X,
Y,
init_transform=t_init,
estimate_scale=False,
allow_reflection=False,
verbose=False,
max_iterations=100,
)
# compare transformations and obtained clouds
# check that both sets of transforms are the same
atol = 3e-5
self.assertClose(R_init, R, atol=atol)
self.assertClose(T_init, T, atol=atol)
self.assertClose(s_init, s, atol=atol)
self.assertClose(Xt_init, Xt, atol=atol)
@staticmethod
def _init_heterogeneous_icp_problem(batch_size, max_n_points, device):
"""
Generate a batch of randomly-sized point clouds `X` together with
`Y`, a rigidly moved copy of each cloud with a few extra points
added, so that the clouds in `Y` have different sizes from those
in `X`.
`Y` deliberately covers the whole of `X`. Two independent random
clouds instead make the problem ill-posed: with `estimate_scale`,
ICP then usually collapses `X` onto a single point of `Y`, driving
the scale to ~1e-16 and the rmse to zero. That solution fits
perfectly but leaves the rotation completely unconstrained, so two
runs of the same algorithm may return wildly different rotations
and can't be compared with each other.
"""
n_points = torch.randint(
low=6, high=max_n_points, size=(batch_size,), device=device
)
X_list = [torch.randn(int(n), 3, device=device) for n in n_points]
R = rotation_conversions.axis_angle_to_matrix(
0.15 * torch.randn(batch_size, 3, device=device)
)
T = 0.1 * torch.randn(batch_size, 3, device=device)
Y_list = []
for i, X in enumerate(X_list):
n_extra = int(torch.randint(low=1, high=5, size=(), device=device))
covered = torch.cat([X, torch.randn(n_extra, 3, device=device)], dim=0)
Y_list.append(covered @ R[i] + T[i] + 0.01 * torch.randn_like(covered))
return Pointclouds(X_list), Pointclouds(Y_list)
def test_heterogeneous_inputs(self, batch_size=7):
"""
Tests whether we get the same result when running ICP on
a set of randomly-sized Pointclouds and on their padded versions.
"""
torch.manual_seed(14)
device = torch.device("cuda:0")
for estimate_scale in (True, False):
for max_n_points in (10, 30, 100):
# initialize ground truth point clouds
X_pcl, Y_pcl = self._init_heterogeneous_icp_problem(
batch_size, max_n_points, device
)
# get the padded versions and their num of points
X_padded = X_pcl.points_padded()
Y_padded = Y_pcl.points_padded()
n_points_X = X_pcl.num_points_per_cloud()
n_points_Y = Y_pcl.num_points_per_cloud()
# run icp with Pointlouds inputs
(
_,
_,
Xt_pcl,
(R_pcl, T_pcl, s_pcl),
_,
) = points_alignment.iterative_closest_point(
X_pcl,
Y_pcl,
estimate_scale=estimate_scale,
allow_reflection=False,
verbose=False,
max_iterations=100,
)
Xt_pcl = Xt_pcl.points_padded()
# run icp with tensor inputs on each element
# of the batch separately
icp_results = [
points_alignment.iterative_closest_point(
X_[None, :n_X, :],
Y_[None, :n_Y, :],
estimate_scale=estimate_scale,
allow_reflection=False,
verbose=False,
max_iterations=100,
)
for X_, Y_, n_X, n_Y in zip(
X_padded, Y_padded, n_points_X, n_points_Y
)
]
# parse out the transformation results
R, T, s = [
torch.cat([x.RTs[i] for x in icp_results], dim=0) for i in range(3)
]
# check that both sets of transforms are the same.
# The two runs sum over a different number of points - the
# batched one includes the (zero-weighted) padding - so they
# round differently, by up to ~1e-5 on the transformed clouds.
atol = 1e-4
self.assertClose(R_pcl, R, atol=atol)
self.assertClose(T_pcl, T, atol=atol)
self.assertClose(s_pcl, s, atol=atol)
# compare the transformed point clouds
for pcli in range(batch_size):
nX = n_points_X[pcli]
Xt_ = icp_results[pcli].Xt[0, :nX]
Xt_pcl_ = Xt_pcl[pcli][:nX]
self.assertClose(Xt_pcl_, Xt_, atol=atol)
def test_compare_with_trimesh(self):
"""
Compares the outputs of `iterative_closest_point` with the results
of `trimesh.registration.icp` from the `trimesh` python package:
https://github.com/mikedh/trimesh
We have run `trimesh.registration.icp` on several random problems
with different point cloud sizes. The results of trimesh, together with
the randomly generated input clouds are loaded in the constructor of
this class and this test compares the loaded results to our runs.
"""
for n_points_X in (10, 20, 50, 100):
for n_points_Y in (10, 20, 50, 100):
self._compare_with_trimesh(n_points_X=n_points_X, n_points_Y=n_points_Y)
def _compare_with_trimesh(
self, n_points_X=100, n_points_Y=100, estimate_scale=False
):
"""
Executes a single test for `iterative_closest_point` for a
specific setting of the inputs / outputs. Compares the result with
the result of the trimesh package on the same input data.
"""
device = torch.device("cuda:0")
# load the trimesh results and the initial point clouds for icp
key = (int(n_points_X), int(n_points_Y), int(estimate_scale))
X, Y, R_trimesh, T_trimesh, s_trimesh = [
x.to(device) for x in self.trimesh_results[key]
]
# run the icp algorithm
(
converged,
_,
_,
(R_ours, T_ours, s_ours),
_,
) = points_alignment.iterative_closest_point(
X,
Y,
estimate_scale=estimate_scale,
allow_reflection=False,
verbose=False,
max_iterations=100,
)
# check that we have the same transformation
# and that the icp converged
atol = 1e-5
self.assertClose(R_ours, R_trimesh, atol=atol)
self.assertClose(T_ours, T_trimesh, atol=atol)
self.assertClose(s_ours, s_trimesh, atol=atol)
self.assertTrue(converged)
class TestCorrespondingPointsAlignment(TestCaseMixin, unittest.TestCase):
def setUp(self) -> None:
super().setUp()
torch.manual_seed(42)
np.random.seed(42)
@staticmethod
def random_rotation(batch_size, dim, device=None):
"""
Generates a batch of random `dim`-dimensional rotation matrices.
"""
if dim == 3:
R = rotation_conversions.random_rotations(batch_size, device=device)
else:
# generate random rotation matrices with orthogonalization of
# random normal square matrices, followed by a transformation
# that ensures determinant(R)==1
H = torch.randn(batch_size, dim, dim, dtype=torch.float32, device=device)
U, _, V = torch.svd(H)
E = torch.eye(dim, dtype=torch.float32, device=device)[None].repeat(
batch_size, 1, 1
)
E[:, -1, -1] = torch.det(torch.bmm(U, V.transpose(2, 1)))
R = torch.bmm(torch.bmm(U, E), V.transpose(2, 1))
assert torch.allclose(torch.det(R), R.new_ones(batch_size), atol=1e-4)
return R
@staticmethod
def init_point_cloud(
batch_size=10,
n_points=1000,
dim=3,
device=None,
use_pointclouds=False,
random_pcl_size=True,
fix_seed=None,
):
"""
Generate a batch of normally distributed point clouds.
"""
if fix_seed is not None:
# make sure we always generate the same pointcloud
seed = torch.random.get_rng_state()
torch.manual_seed(fix_seed)
if use_pointclouds:
assert dim == 3, "Pointclouds support only 3-dim points."
# generate a `batch_size` point clouds with number of points
# between 4 and `n_points`
if random_pcl_size:
n_points_per_batch = torch.randint(
low=4,
high=n_points,
size=(batch_size,),
device=device,
dtype=torch.int64,
)
X_list = [
torch.randn(int(n_pt), dim, device=device, dtype=torch.float32)
for n_pt in n_points_per_batch
]
X = Pointclouds(X_list)
else:
X = torch.randn(
batch_size, n_points, dim, device=device, dtype=torch.float32
)
X = Pointclouds(list(X))
else:
X = torch.randn(
batch_size, n_points, dim, device=device, dtype=torch.float32
)
if fix_seed:
torch.random.set_rng_state(seed)
return X
@staticmethod
def generate_pcl_transformation(
batch_size=10, scale=False, reflect=False, dim=3, device=None
):
"""
Generate a batch of random rigid/similarity transformations.
"""
R = TestCorrespondingPointsAlignment.random_rotation(
batch_size, dim, device=device
)
T = torch.randn(batch_size, dim, dtype=torch.float32, device=device)
if scale:
s = torch.rand(batch_size, dtype=torch.float32, device=device) + 0.1
else:
s = torch.ones(batch_size, dtype=torch.float32, device=device)
return R, T, s
@staticmethod
def generate_random_reflection(batch_size=10, dim=3, device=None):
"""
Generate a batch of reflection matrices of shape (batch_size, dim, dim),
where M_i is an identity matrix with one random entry on the
diagonal equal to -1.
"""
# randomly select one of the dimensions to reflect for each
# element in the batch
dim_to_reflect = torch.randint(
low=0, high=dim, size=(batch_size,), device=device, dtype=torch.int64
)
# convert dim_to_reflect to a batch of reflection matrices M
M = torch.diag_embed(
(
dim_to_reflect[:, None]
!= torch.arange(dim, device=device, dtype=torch.float32)
).float()
* 2
- 1,
dim1=1,
dim2=2,
)
return M
@staticmethod
def corresponding_points_alignment(
batch_size=10,
n_points=100,
dim=3,
use_pointclouds=False,
estimate_scale=False,
allow_reflection=False,
reflect=False,
random_weights=False,
):
device = torch.device("cuda:0")
# initialize a ground truth point cloud
X = TestCorrespondingPointsAlignment.init_point_cloud(
batch_size=batch_size,
n_points=n_points,
dim=dim,
device=device,
use_pointclouds=use_pointclouds,
random_pcl_size=True,
)
# generate the true transformation
R, T, s = TestCorrespondingPointsAlignment.generate_pcl_transformation(
batch_size=batch_size,
scale=estimate_scale,
reflect=reflect,
dim=dim,
device=device,
)
# apply the generated transformation to the generated
# point cloud X
X_t = _apply_pcl_transformation(X, R, T, s=s)
weights = None
if random_weights:
template = X.points_padded() if use_pointclouds else X
weights = torch.rand_like(template[:, :, 0])
weights = weights / weights.sum(dim=1, keepdim=True)
# zero out some weights as zero weights are a common use case
# this guarantees there are no zero weight
weights *= (weights * template.size()[1] > 0.3).to(weights)
if use_pointclouds: # convert to List[Tensor]
weights = [
w[:npts] for w, npts in zip(weights, X.num_points_per_cloud())
]
torch.cuda.synchronize()
def run_corresponding_points_alignment():
points_alignment.corresponding_points_alignment(
X,
X_t,
weights,
allow_reflection=allow_reflection,
estimate_scale=estimate_scale,
)
torch.cuda.synchronize()
return run_corresponding_points_alignment
def test_corresponding_points_alignment(self, batch_size=10):
"""
Tests whether we can estimate a rigid/similarity motion between
a randomly initialized point cloud and its randomly transformed version.
The tests are done for all possible combinations
of the following boolean flags:
- estimate_scale ... Estimate also a scaling component of
the transformation.
- reflect ... The ground truth orthonormal part of the generated
transformation is a reflection (det==-1).
- allow_reflection ... If True, the orthonormal matrix of the
estimated transformation is allowed to be
a reflection (det==-1).
- use_pointclouds ... If True, passes the Pointclouds objects
to corresponding_points_alignment.
"""
# run this for several different point cloud sizes
for n_points in (100, 3, 2, 1):
# run this for several different dimensionalities
for dim in range(2, 10):
# switches whether we should use the Pointclouds inputs
use_point_clouds_cases = (
(True, False) if dim == 3 and n_points > 3 else (False,)
)
for random_weights in (False, True):
for use_pointclouds in use_point_clouds_cases:
for estimate_scale in (False, True):
for reflect in (False, True):
for allow_reflection in (False, True):
self._test_single_corresponding_points_alignment(
batch_size=10,
n_points=n_points,
dim=dim,
use_pointclouds=use_pointclouds,
estimate_scale=estimate_scale,
reflect=reflect,
allow_reflection=allow_reflection,
random_weights=random_weights,
)
def _test_single_corresponding_points_alignment(
self,
batch_size=10,
n_points=100,
dim=3,
use_pointclouds=False,
estimate_scale=False,
reflect=False,
allow_reflection=False,
random_weights=False,
):
"""
Executes a single test for `corresponding_points_alignment` for a
specific setting of the inputs / outputs.
"""
device = torch.device("cuda:0")
# initialize the a ground truth point cloud
X = TestCorrespondingPointsAlignment.init_point_cloud(
batch_size=batch_size,
n_points=n_points,
dim=dim,
device=device,
use_pointclouds=use_pointclouds,
random_pcl_size=True,
)
# generate the true transformation
R, T, s = TestCorrespondingPointsAlignment.generate_pcl_transformation(
batch_size=batch_size,
scale=estimate_scale,
reflect=reflect,
dim=dim,
device=device,
)
if reflect:
# generate random reflection M and apply to the rotations
M = TestCorrespondingPointsAlignment.generate_random_reflection(
batch_size=batch_size, dim=dim, device=device
)
R = torch.bmm(M, R)
weights = None
if random_weights:
template = X.points_padded() if use_pointclouds else X
weights = torch.rand_like(template[:, :, 0])
weights = weights / weights.sum(dim=1, keepdim=True)
# zero out some weights as zero weights are a common use case
# this guarantees there are no zero weight
weights *= (weights * template.size()[1] > 0.3).to(weights)
if use_pointclouds: # convert to List[Tensor]
weights = [
w[:npts] for w, npts in zip(weights, X.num_points_per_cloud())
]
# apply the generated transformation to the generated
# point cloud X
X_t = _apply_pcl_transformation(X, R, T, s=s)
# run the CorrespondingPointsAlignment algorithm
R_est, T_est, s_est = points_alignment.corresponding_points_alignment(
X,
X_t,
weights,
allow_reflection=allow_reflection,
estimate_scale=estimate_scale,
)
assert_error_message = (
f"Corresponding_points_alignment assertion failure for "
f"n_points={n_points}, "
f"dim={dim}, "
f"use_pointclouds={use_pointclouds}, "
f"estimate_scale={estimate_scale}, "
f"reflect={reflect}, "
f"allow_reflection={allow_reflection},"
f"random_weights={random_weights}."
)
# if we test the weighted case, check that weights help with noise
if random_weights and not use_pointclouds and n_points >= (dim + 10):
# add noise to 20% points with smallest weight
X_noisy = X_t.clone()
_, mink_idx = torch.topk(-weights, int(n_points * 0.2), dim=1)
mink_idx = mink_idx[:, :, None].expand(-1, -1, X_t.shape[-1])
X_noisy.scatter_add_(
1, mink_idx, 0.3 * torch.randn_like(mink_idx, dtype=X_t.dtype)
)
def align_and_get_mse(weights_):
R_n, T_n, s_n = points_alignment.corresponding_points_alignment(
X_noisy,
X_t,
weights_,
allow_reflection=allow_reflection,
estimate_scale=estimate_scale,
)
X_t_est = _apply_pcl_transformation(X_noisy, R_n, T_n, s=s_n)
return (((X_t_est - X_t) * weights[..., None]) ** 2).sum(
dim=(1, 2)
) / weights.sum(dim=-1)
# check that using weights leads to lower weighted_MSE(X_noisy, X_t)
self.assertTrue(
torch.all(align_and_get_mse(weights) <= align_and_get_mse(None))
)
if reflect and not allow_reflection:
# check that all rotations have det=1
self._assert_all_close(
torch.det(R_est),
R_est.new_ones(batch_size),
assert_error_message,
atol=2e-5,
)
else:
# mask out inputs with too few non-degenerate points for assertions
w = (
torch.ones_like(R_est[:, 0, 0])
if weights is None or n_points >= dim + 10
else (weights > 0.0).all(dim=1).to(R_est)
)
# check that the estimated tranformation is the same
# as the ground truth
if n_points >= (dim + 1):
# the checks on transforms apply only when
# the problem setup is unambiguous
msg = assert_error_message
self._assert_all_close(R_est, R, msg, w[:, None, None], atol=1e-5)
self._assert_all_close(T_est, T, msg, w[:, None])
self._assert_all_close(s_est, s, msg, w)
# check that the orthonormal part of the
# transformation has a correct determinant (+1/-1)
desired_det = R_est.new_ones(batch_size)
if reflect:
desired_det *= -1.0
self._assert_all_close(torch.det(R_est), desired_det, msg, w, atol=2e-5)
# check that the transformed point cloud
# X matches X_t.
# Only valid when the problem setup is unambiguous: when
# n_points <= dim the centered point cloud is rank-deficient
# and the rotation around the degenerate axis is determined
# only by the SVD's null-space convention, which differs
# across BLAS implementations (e.g. rocBLAS on RDNA vs CDNA,
# or cuBLAS). Applying any of those valid rotations to the
# uncentered X yields a different X_t_est even though the
# algorithm is correct.
X_t_est = _apply_pcl_transformation(X, R_est, T_est, s=s_est)
self._assert_all_close(
X_t, X_t_est, assert_error_message, w[:, None, None], atol=2e-5
)
def _assert_all_close(self, a_, b_, err_message, weights=None, atol=1e-6):
if isinstance(a_, Pointclouds):
a_ = a_.points_packed()
if isinstance(b_, Pointclouds):
b_ = b_.points_packed()
if weights is None:
self.assertClose(a_, b_, atol=atol, msg=err_message)
else:
self.assertClose(a_ * weights, b_ * weights, atol=atol, msg=err_message)