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Typical Structure-from-Motion (SfM) pipelines rely on finding correspondences across images, recovering the projective structure of the observed scene and upgrading it to a metric frame using camera self-calibration constraints. Solving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Rui Gong , Danda Pani Paudel , Ajad Chhatkuli , Luc Van Gool

In this paper, we tackle the accurate and consistent Structure from Motion (SfM) problem, in particular camera registration, far exceeding the memory of a single computer in parallel. Different from the previous methods which drastically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-06 Siyu Zhu , Tianwei Shen , Lei Zhou , Runze Zhang , Jinglu Wang , Tian Fang , Long Quan

This paper addresses the problem of Structure from Motion (SfM) for indoor panoramic image streams, extremely challenging even for the state-of-the-art due to the lack of textures and minimal parallax. The key idea is the fusion of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-06 Satoshi Ikehata , Ivaylo Boyadzhiev , Qi Shan , Yasutaka Furukawa

Structure-from-Motion (SfM), a task aiming at jointly recovering camera poses and 3D geometry of a scene given a set of images, remains a hard problem with still many open challenges despite decades of significant progress. The traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Bardienus Duisterhof , Lojze Zust , Philippe Weinzaepfel , Vincent Leroy , Yohann Cabon , Jerome Revaud

Accurate 3D reconstruction from unstructured image collections is a key requirement in applications such as robotics, mapping, and scene understanding. While global Structure from Motion (SfM) techniques rely on full image connectivity and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Muhammad Zeeshan , Umer Zaki , Syed Ahmed Pasha , Zaar Khizar

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) has become a ubiquitous tool for camera calibration and scene reconstruction with many downstream applications in computer vision and beyond. While the state-of-the-art SfM pipelines have reached a high level of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Shaohui Liu , Yidan Gao , Tianyi Zhang , Rémi Pautrat , Johannes L. Schönberger , Viktor Larsson , Marc Pollefeys

Structure from Motion (SfM) and visual localization in indoor texture-less scenes and industrial scenarios present prevalent yet challenging research topics. Existing SfM methods designed for natural scenes typically yield low accuracy or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Yusen Xie , Zhenmin Huang , Kai Chen , Lei Zhu , Jun Ma

Structure-from-Motion (SfM) aims to recover 3D scene structures and camera poses based on the correspondences between input images, and thus the ambiguity caused by duplicate structures (i.e., different structures with strong visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Lei Wang , Linlin Ge , Shan Luo , Zihan Yan , Zhaopeng Cui , Jieqing Feng

Structure-from-Motion -- the process of simultaneously estimating camera poses and 3D scene structure from a collection of images -- remains a central challenge in computer vision, with many open problems yet to be solved. Recent advances…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Linfei Pan , Johannes Schönberger , Marc Pollefeys

Although Structure-from-Motion (SfM) as a maturing technique has been widely used in many applications, state-of-the-art SfM algorithms are still not robust enough in certain situations. For example, images for inspection purposes are often…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Weikun Zhen , Yaoyu Hu , Huai Yu , Sebastian Scherer

Estimating camera intrinsics and extrinsics is a fundamental problem in computer vision, and while advances in structure-from-motion (SfM) have improved accuracy and robustness, open challenges remain. In this paper, we introduce a robust…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Johannes Hägerlind , Bao-Long Tran , Urs Waldmann , Per-Erik Forssén

Structure-from-Motion is a technology used to obtain scene structure through image collection, which is a fundamental problem in computer vision. For unordered Internet images, SfM is very slow due to the lack of prior knowledge about image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Zhichao Ye , Chong Bao , Xin Zhou , Haomin Liu , Hujun Bao , Guofeng Zhang

We propose a novel approach for estimating the relative pose between rolling shutter cameras using the intersections of line projections with a single scanline per image. This allows pose estimation without explicitly modeling camera…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Petr Hruby , Marc Pollefeys

Estimating uncertainty of camera parameters computed in Structure from Motion (SfM) is an important tool for evaluating the quality of the reconstruction and guiding the reconstruction process. Yet, the quality of the estimated parameters…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-08 Michal Polic , Wolfgang Förstner , Tomas Pajdla

Multi-view 3D reconstruction, namely, structure-from-motion followed by multi-view stereo, is a fundamental component of 3D computer vision. In general, multi-view 3D reconstruction suffers from an unknown scale ambiguity unless a reference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Lilika Makabe , Kohei Ashida , Hiroaki Santo , Fumio Okura , Yasuyuki Matsushita

Creating 3D models through the Structure from Motion technique is a recognized, efficient, cost-effective structural monitoring strategy. This technique is applied in several engineering fields, particularly for creating models of large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Francisco Roza de Moraes , Irineu da Silva

While initial approaches to Structure-from-Motion (SfM) revolved around both global and incremental methods, most recent applications rely on incremental systems to estimate camera poses due to their superior robustness. Though there has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Ayush Baid , John Lambert , Travis Driver , Akshay Krishnan , Hayk Stepanyan , Frank Dellaert

Despite the impressive results achieved by many existing Structure from Motion (SfM) approaches, there is still a need to improve the robustness, accuracy, and efficiency on large-scale scenes with many outlier matches and sparse view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Yu Chen , Zihao Yu , Shu Song , Tianning Yu , Jianming Li , Gim Hee Lee

Recovering 3D structure and camera motion from images has been a long-standing focus of computer vision research and is known as Structure-from-Motion (SfM). Solutions to this problem are categorized into incremental and global approaches.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Linfei Pan , Dániel Baráth , Marc Pollefeys , Johannes L. Schönberger
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