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Incremental Structure from Motion (ISfM) has been widely used for UAV image orientation. Its efficiency, however, decreases dramatically due to the sequential constraint. Although the divide-and-conquer strategy has been utilized for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-08 San Jiang , Qingquan Li , Wanshou Jiang , Wu Chen

Over the last decades, ample achievements have been made on Structure from motion (SfM). However, the vast majority of them basically work in an offline manner, i.e., images are firstly captured and then fed together into a SfM pipeline for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Zongqian Zhan , Rui Xia , Yifei Yu , Yibo Xu , Xin Wang

We present Light3R-SfM, a feed-forward, end-to-end learnable framework for efficient large-scale Structure-from-Motion (SfM) from unconstrained image collections. Unlike existing SfM solutions that rely on costly matching and global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Sven Elflein , Qunjie Zhou , Sérgio Agostinho , Laura Leal-Taixé

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

Many monocular visual SLAM algorithms are derived from incremental structure-from-motion (SfM) methods. This work proposes a novel monocular SLAM method which integrates recent advances made in global SfM. In particular, we present two main…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-20 Chengzhou Tang , Oliver Wang , Ping Tan

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 (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

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

Shape-from-Focus (SFF) is a passive depth estimation technique that infers scene depth by analyzing focus variations in a focal stack. Most recent deep learning-based SFF methods typically operate in two stages: first, they extract focus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Khurram Ashfaq , Muhammad Tariq Mahmood

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

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 consider the problem of simultaneously estimating a dense depth map and camera pose for a large set of images of an indoor scene. While classical SfM pipelines rely on a two-step approach where cameras are first estimated using a bundle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-23 Benjamin Graham , David Novotny

Both self-supervised depth estimation and Structure-from-Motion (SfM) recover scene depth from RGB videos. Despite sharing a similar objective, the two approaches are disconnected. Prior works of self-supervision backpropagate losses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Shengjie Zhu , Xiaoming Liu

Automatic reconstruction of 3D models from images using multi-view Structure-from-Motion methods has been one of the most fruitful outcomes of computer vision. These advances combined with the growing popularity of Micro Aerial Vehicles as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Shreyansh Daftry , Christof Hoppe , Horst Bischof

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

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

Fine-grained high-resolution remote sensing mapping typically relies on localized visual features, which restricts cross-domain generalizability and often leads to fragmented predictions of large-scale land covers. While global geospatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Jienan Lyu , Miao Yang , Jinchen Cai , Yiwen Hu , Guanyi Lu , Junhao Qiu , Runmin Dong

Reconstructing the surfaces of deformable objects from correspondences between a 3D template and a 2D image is well studied under Shape-from-Template (SfT) methods; however, existing approaches break down when topological changes accompany…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Kevin Manogue , Tomasz M Schang , Dilara Kuş , Jonas Müller , Stefan Zachow , Agniva Sengupta

Two-view structure from motion (SfM) is the cornerstone of 3D reconstruction and visual SLAM (vSLAM). Many existing end-to-end learning-based methods usually formulate it as a brute regression problem. However, the inadequate utilization of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Yuxi Xiao , Li Li , Xiaodi Li , Jian Yao

This article describes a technique to augment a typical RGBD sensor by integrating depth estimates obtained via Structure-from-Motion (SfM) with sensor depth measurements. Limitations in the RGBD depth sensing technology prevent capturing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Akash Chandrashekar , John Papadakis , Andrew Willis , Jamie Gantert