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Structure from Motion (SfM) estimates camera poses and reconstructs point clouds, forming a foundation for various tasks. However, applying SfM to driving scenes captured by multi-camera systems presents significant difficulties, including…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Lingfeng Xuan , Chang Nie , Yiqing Xu , Zhe Liu , Yanzi Miao , Hesheng Wang

Current Structure-from-Motion (SfM) methods typically follow a two-stage pipeline, combining learned or geometric pairwise reasoning with a subsequent global optimization step. In contrast, we propose a data-driven multi-view reasoning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Qitao Zhao , Amy Lin , Jeff Tan , Jason Y. Zhang , Deva Ramanan , Shubham Tulsiani

This paper presents a neural incremental Structure-from-Motion (SfM) approach, Level-S$^2$fM, which estimates the camera poses and scene geometry from a set of uncalibrated images by learning coordinate MLPs for the implicit surfaces and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Yuxi Xiao , Nan Xue , Tianfu Wu , Gui-Song Xia

Scene regression methods, such as VGGT, solve the Structure-from-Motion (SfM) problem by directly regressing camera poses and 3D scene structures from input images. They demonstrate impressive performance in handling images under extreme…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Junyuan Deng , Heng Li , Tao Xie , Weiqiang Ren , Qian Zhang , Ping Tan , Xiaoyang Guo

Current non-rigid structure from motion (NRSfM) algorithms are mainly limited with respect to: (i) the number of images, and (ii) the type of shape variability they can handle. This has hampered the practical utility of NRSfM for many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Chen Kong , Simon Lucey

There has been extensive progress in the reconstruction and generation of 4D scenes from monocular casually-captured video. While these tasks rely heavily on known camera poses, the problem of finding such poses using structure-from-motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Lily Goli , Sara Sabour , Mark Matthews , Marcus Brubaker , Dmitry Lagun , Alec Jacobson , David J. Fleet , Saurabh Saxena , Andrea Tagliasacchi

Active 3D measurement, especially structured light (SL) has been widely used in various fields for its robustness against textureless or equivalent surfaces by low light illumination. In addition, reconstruction of large scenes by moving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Kazuto Ichimaru , Diego Thomas , Takafumi Iwaguchi , Hiroshi Kawasaki

We present Dense-SfM, a novel Structure from Motion (SfM) framework designed for dense and accurate 3D reconstruction from multi-view images. Sparse keypoint matching, which traditional SfM methods often rely on, limits both accuracy and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-29 JongMin Lee , Sungjoo Yoo

Many objects, especially these made by humans, are symmetric, e.g. cars and aeroplanes. This paper addresses the estimation of 3D structures of symmetric objects from multiple images of the same object category, e.g. different cars, seen…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-23 Yuan Gao , Alan Yuille

Existing deep methods produce highly accurate 3D reconstructions in stereo and multiview stereo settings, i.e., when cameras are both internally and externally calibrated. Nevertheless, the challenge of simultaneous recovery of camera poses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Dror Moran , Hodaya Koslowsky , Yoni Kasten , Haggai Maron , Meirav Galun , Ronen Basri

Structure-from-Motion (SfM) is a fundamental technique for recovering camera poses and scene structure from multi-view imagery, serving as a critical upstream component for applications ranging from 3D reconstruction to modern neural scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Jiankun Zhong , Zitong Zhan , Quankai Gao , Ziyu Chen , Haozhe Lou , Jiageng Mao , Ulrich Neumann , Chen Wang , Yue Wang

Structure-from-Motion approaches could be broadly divided into two classes: incremental and global. While incremental manner is robust to outliers, it suffers from error accumulation and heavy computation load. The global manner has the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-26 Hainan Cui , Shuhan Shen , Xiang Gao , Zhanyi Hu

Structure from Motion (SfM) using imagery that involves extreme appearance changes is yet a challenging task due to a loss of feature repeatability. Using feature correspondences obtained by matching densely extracted convolutional neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-14 Aji Resindra Widya , Akihiko Torii , Masatoshi Okutomi

Non-rigid structure-from-motion (NRSfM), a promising technique for addressing the mapping challenges in monocular visual deformable simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), has attracted growing attention. We introduce a novel method,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Yongbo Chen , Yanhao Zhang , Shaifali Parashar , Liang Zhao , Shoudong Huang

Rolling-shutter (RS) cameras are ubiquitous, but RS SfM (structure-from-motion) has not been fully solved yet. This work suggests an approach to remedy this: We characterize RS single-view geometry of observed world points or lines.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Sofía Errázuriz Muñoz , Kim Kiehn , Petr Hruby , Kathlén Kohn

We present a method to reconstruct the three-dimensional trajectory of a moving instance of a known object category using stereo video data. We track the two-dimensional shape of objects on pixel level exploiting instance-aware semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-29 Sebastian Bullinger , Christoph Bodensteiner , Michael Arens , Rainer Stiefelhagen

Structure from Motion (SfM) techniques are being increasingly used to create 3D maps from images in many domains including environmental monitoring. However, SfM techniques are often confounded in visually repetitive environments as they…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Brian M. Hopkinson , Suchendra M. Bhandarkar

We introduce the distributed camera model, a novel model for Structure-from-Motion (SfM). This model describes image observations in terms of light rays with ray origins and directions rather than pixels. As such, the proposed model is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-02 Chris Sweeney , Victor Fragoso , Tobias Hollerer , Matthew Turk

We investigate the possibility of 3D scene reconstruction from two or more overlapping webcam streams. A large, and growing, number of webcams observe places of interest and are publicly accessible. The question naturally arises: can we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Tianyu Wu , Konrad Schindler , Cenek Albl

Non-Rigid structure from motion (NRSfM), is a long standing and central problem in computer vision and its solution is necessary for obtaining 3D information from multiple images when the scene is dynamic. A main issue regarding the further…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Sebastian Hoppe Nesgaard Jensen , Mads Emil Brix Doest , Henrik Aanaes , Alessio Del Bue