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The central idea is that point clouds can be transformed and analysed in the spectral domain, where key frequency components capture the most informative spatial structures. By selecting and registering only the dominant frequencies, our method achieves significant reductions in localisation error and computational complexity. We validate this approach using public datasets and compare it with standard Iterative Closest Point (ICP) techniques. Our method, which applies ICP only to points in selected frequency bands, reduces localisation error from 4.37 m to 1.22 m (MSE), an improvement of approximately 72%. 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