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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

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

This paper proposes a strategy for efficient geometrical verification in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) image matching. First, considering the complex transformation model between correspondence set in the image-space, feature points of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-15 San Jiang , Wanshou Jiang

This work introduces an effective and practical solution to the dense two-view structure from motion (SfM) problem. One vital question addressed is how to mindfully use per-pixel optical flow correspondence between two frames for accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Weirong Chen , Suryansh Kumar , Fisher Yu

Structure-from-motion (SfM) is a long-standing problem in the computer vision community, which aims to reconstruct the camera poses and 3D structure of a scene from a set of unconstrained 2D images. Classical frameworks solve this problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Jianyuan Wang , Nikita Karaev , Christian Rupprecht , David Novotny

Object detection in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) images remains a highly challenging task, primarily caused by the complexity of background noise and the imbalance of target scales. Traditional methods easily struggle to effectively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Wenfeng Zhang , Jun Ni , Yue Meng , Xiaodong Pei , Wei Hu , Qibing Qin , Lei Huang

Conventional image retrieval techniques for Structure-from-Motion (SfM) suffer from the limit of effectively recognizing repetitive patterns and cannot guarantee to create just enough match pairs with high precision and high recall. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Shen Yan , Yang Pen , Shiming Lai , Yu Liu , Maojun Zhang

In this paper, we study an unmanned aerial vehicle(UAV)-enabled wireless sensor network, where a UAV is dispatched to collect the sensed data from distributed sensor nodes (SNs) for estimating an unknown parameter. It is revealed that in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-14 Cheng Zhan , Yong Zeng , Rui Zhang

Accuracy and efficiency are two key problems in large scale incremental Structure from Motion (SfM). In this paper, we propose a unified framework to divide the image set into clusters suitable for reconstruction as well as find multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-22 Kun Sun , Wenbing Tao

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

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

Multi-camera systems are increasingly vital in the environmental perception of autonomous vehicles and robotics. Their physical configuration offers inherent fixed relative pose constraints that benefit Structure-from-Motion (SfM). However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Peilin Tao , Hainan Cui , Diantao Tu , Shuhan Shen

Structure from Motion (SfM) is a critical task in computer vision, aiming to recover the 3D scene structure and camera motion from a sequence of 2D images. The recent pose-only imaging geometry decouples 3D coordinates from camera poses and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Xinrui Li , Qi Cai , Yuanxin Wu

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

Structure from motion (SfM) is an essential computer vision problem which has not been well handled by deep learning. One of the promising trends is to apply explicit structural constraint, e.g. 3D cost volume, into the network. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Xingkui Wei , Yinda Zhang , Zhuwen Li , Yanwei Fu , Xiangyang Xue

This paper tackles the optimization of the point spread function (PSF) of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-borne multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) synthetic aperture radar (SAR) tomography systems. A swarm of UAV-borne SAR systems is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-27 Pouya Fakharizadeh , Mohamed-Amine Lahmeri , Gerhard Krieger , Robert Schober

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) hold immense potential for critical applications, such as search and rescue operations, where accurate perception of indoor environments is paramount. However, the concurrent amalgamation of localization, 3D…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Thanh Nguyen Canh , Van-Truong Nguyen , Xiem HoangVan , Armagan Elibol , Nak Young Chong

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

Two-view structure-from-motion (SfM) is the cornerstone of 3D reconstruction and visual SLAM. Existing deep learning-based approaches formulate the problem by either recovering absolute pose scales from two consecutive frames or predicting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Jianyuan Wang , Yiran Zhong , Yuchao Dai , Stan Birchfield , Kaihao Zhang , Nikolai Smolyanskiy , Hongdong Li

To autonomously navigate in real-world environments, special in search and rescue operations, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) necessitate comprehensive maps to ensure safety. However, the prevalent metric map often lacks semantic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Thanh Nguyen Canh , Armagan Elibol , Nak Young Chong , Xiem HoangVan