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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

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

Usual Structure-from-Motion (SfM) techniques require at least trifocal overlaps to calibrate cameras and reconstruct a scene. We consider here scenarios of reduced image sets with little overlap, possibly as low as two images at most seeing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-29 Yohann Salaun , Renaud Marlet , Pascal Monasse

We address the task of estimating camera parameters from a set of images depicting a scene. Popular feature-based structure-from-motion (SfM) tools solve this task by incremental reconstruction: they repeat triangulation of sparse 3D points…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Eric Brachmann , Jamie Wynn , Shuai Chen , Tommaso Cavallari , Áron Monszpart , Daniyar Turmukhambetov , Victor Adrian Prisacariu

Structure from Motion (SfM) refers to the problem of recovering both structure (i.e., 3D coordinates of points in the scene) and motion (i.e., camera matrices) starting from point correspondences in multiple images. It has attracted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Federica Arrigoni

While Structure-from-Motion (SfM) has seen much progress over the years, state-of-the-art systems are prone to failure when facing extreme viewpoint changes in low-overlap, low-parallax or high-symmetry scenarios. Because capturing images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Zador Pataki , Paul-Edouard Sarlin , Johannes L. Schönberger , Marc Pollefeys

Efficient and accurate camera pose estimation forms the foundational requirement for dense reconstruction in autonomous navigation, robotic perception, and virtual simulation systems. This paper addresses the challenge via cuSfM, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Jingrui Yu , Jun Liu , Kefei Ren , Joydeep Biswas , Rurui Ye , Keqiang Wu , Chirag Majithia , Di Zeng

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

We propose a new structure-from-motion framework to recover accurate camera poses and point clouds from unordered images. Traditional SfM systems typically rely on the successful detection of repeatable keypoints across multiple views as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Xingyi He , Jiaming Sun , Yifan Wang , Sida Peng , Qixing Huang , Hujun Bao , Xiaowei Zhou

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

Image retrieval is a critical step for reducing the quadratic cost of image matching in unconstrained Structure-from-Motion (SfM). Unlike generic image retrieval, however, the relevant goal of SfM is to identify geometrically matchable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Xulei Shi , Maoyu Wang , Yuning Peng , Guanbo Wang , Xin Wang , Yifan Liao , Qi Chen , Pengjie Tao

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

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

Multiview Structure from Motion is a fundamental and challenging computer vision problem. A recent deep-based approach utilized matrix equivariant architectures for simultaneous recovery of camera pose and 3D scene structure from large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Fadi Khatib , Yoni Kasten , Dror Moran , Meirav Galun , Ronen Basri

Humans tend to build environments with structure, which consists of mainly planar surfaces. From the intersection of planar surfaces arise straight lines. Lines have more degrees-of-freedom than points. Thus, line-based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-01 André Mateus , Omar Tahri , A. Pedro Aguiar , Pedro U. Lima , Pedro Miraldo

Existing approaches for Structure from Motion (SfM) produce impressive 3-D reconstruction results especially when using imagery captured with large parallax. However, to create engaging video-content in movies and TV shows, the amount by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Sheng Liu , Xiaohan Nie , Raffay Hamid

Finding local features that are repeatable across multiple views is a cornerstone of sparse 3D reconstruction. The classical image matching paradigm detects keypoints per-image once and for all, which can yield poorly-localized features and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Philipp Lindenberger , Paul-Edouard Sarlin , Viktor Larsson , Marc Pollefeys

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 proposes a new method for Non-Rigid Structure-from-Motion (NRSfM) from a long monocular video sequence observing a non-rigid object performing recurrent and possibly repetitive dynamic action. Departing from the traditional idea…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-19 Xiu Li , Hongdong Li , Hanbyul Joo , Yebin Liu , Yaser Sheikh

We describe a set of tools for analyzing, visualizing, and assessing architectural/construction progress with unordered photo collections and 3D building models. With our interface, a user guides the registration of the model in one of the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Kevin Karsch , Mani Golparvar-Fard , David Forsyth