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World-wide detailed 2D maps require enormous collective efforts. OpenStreetMap is the result of 11 million registered users manually annotating the GPS location of over 1.75 billion entries, including distinctive landmarks and common urban…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Matteo Toso , Stefano Fiorini , Stuart James , Alessio Del Bue

We consider the problem of reconstructing a 3-D scene from a moving camera with high frame rate using the affine projection model. This problem is traditionally known as Affine Structure from Motion (Affine SfM), and can be solved using an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-10 Roberto Tron

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 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

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

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

In this paper we tackle the problem of learning Structure-from-Motion (SfM) through the use of graph attention networks. SfM is a classic computer vision problem that is solved though iterative minimization of reprojection errors, referred…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Lucas Brynte , José Pedro Iglesias , Carl Olsson , Fredrik Kahl

We present "Humans and Structure from Motion" (HSfM), a method for jointly reconstructing multiple human meshes, scene point clouds, and camera parameters in a metric world coordinate system from a sparse set of uncalibrated multi-view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Lea Müller , Hongsuk Choi , Anthony Zhang , Brent Yi , Jitendra Malik , Angjoo Kanazawa

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

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

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

We propose FastMap, a new global structure from motion method focused on speed and simplicity. Previous methods like COLMAP and GLOMAP are able to estimate high-precision camera poses, but suffer from poor scalability when the number of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Jiahao Li , Haochen Wang , Muhammad Zubair Irshad , Igor Vasiljevic , Matthew R. Walter , Vitor Campagnolo Guizilini , Greg Shakhnarovich

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 the pose of a moving camera from monocular video is a challenging problem, especially due to the presence of moving objects in dynamic environments, where the performance of existing camera pose estimation methods are susceptible…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Wang Zhao , Shaohui Liu , Hengkai Guo , Wenping Wang , Yong-Jin Liu

Structure-from-Motion (SfM) is a fundamental 3D vision task for recovering camera parameters and scene geometry from multi-view images. While recent deep learning advances enable accurate Monocular Depth Estimation (MDE) from single images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Shengjie Zhu , Ahmed Abdelkader , Mark J. Matthews , Xiaoming Liu , Wen-Sheng Chu

We introduce an approach to enhance the novel view synthesis from images taken from a freely moving camera. The introduced approach focuses on outdoor scenes where recovering accurate geometric scaffold and camera pose is challenging,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Nishant Jain , Suryansh Kumar , Luc Van Gool

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) often fails to estimate accurate poses in environments that lack suitable visual features. In such cases, the quality of the final 3D mesh, which is contingent on the accuracy of those estimates, is reduced. One…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Victor Amblard , Timothy P. Osedach , Arnaud Croux , Andrew Speck , John J. Leonard

The primary contribution of this paper is an efficient Structure from Motion (SfM) solution for oblique unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) images. First, an algorithm, considering spatial relationship constrains between image footprints, is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-10 San Jiang , Wanshou Jiang

In the last twenty years, Structure from Motion (SfM) has been a constant research hotspot in the fields of photogrammetry, computer vision, robotics etc., whereas real-time performance is just a recent topic of growing interest. This work…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Zongqian Zhan , Yifei Yu , Rui Xia , Wentian Gan , Hong Xie , Giulio Perda , Luca Morelli , Fabio Remondino , Xin Wang