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Flow3r: Factored Flow Prediction for Scalable Visual Geometry Learning

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2026-02-24 v1

Abstract

Current feed-forward 3D/4D reconstruction systems rely on dense geometry and pose supervision -- expensive to obtain at scale and particularly scarce for dynamic real-world scenes. We present Flow3r, a framework that augments visual geometry learning with dense 2D correspondences (`flow') as supervision, enabling scalable training from unlabeled monocular videos. Our key insight is that the flow prediction module should be factored: predicting flow between two images using geometry latents from one and pose latents from the other. This factorization directly guides the learning of both scene geometry and camera motion, and naturally extends to dynamic scenes. In controlled experiments, we show that factored flow prediction outperforms alternative designs and that performance scales consistently with unlabeled data. Integrating factored flow into existing visual geometry architectures and training with 800{\sim}800K unlabeled videos, Flow3r achieves state-of-the-art results across eight benchmarks spanning static and dynamic scenes, with its largest gains on in-the-wild dynamic videos where labeled data is most scarce.

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@article{arxiv.2602.20157,
  title  = {Flow3r: Factored Flow Prediction for Scalable Visual Geometry Learning},
  author = {Zhongxiao Cong and Qitao Zhao and Minsik Jeon and Shubham Tulsiani},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.20157},
  year   = {2026}
}

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CVPR 2026. Project website: https://flow3r-project.github.io/

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