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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

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

Visual localization is a critical task in mobile robotics, and researchers are continuously developing new approaches to enhance its efficiency. In this article, we propose a novel approach to improve the accuracy of visual localization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Artem Nenashev , Mikhail Kurenkov , Andrei Potapov , Iana Zhura , Maksim Katerishich , Dzmitry Tsetserukou

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 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

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

Rigid structure-from-motion (RSfM) and non-rigid structure-from-motion (NRSfM) have long been treated in the literature as separate (different) problems. Inspired by a previous work which solved directly for 3D scene structure by factoring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-18 Pan Ji , Hongdong Li , Yuchao Dai , Ian Reid

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

3D reconstruction plays an increasingly important role in modern photogrammetric systems. Conventional satellite or aerial-based remote sensing (RS) platforms can provide the necessary data sources for the 3D reconstruction of large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-27 San Jiang , Kan You , Yaxin Li , Duojie Weng , Wu Chen

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

Non-rigid structure-from-motion (NRSfM), a promising technique for addressing the mapping challenges in monocular visual deformable simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), has attracted growing attention. We introduce a novel method,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Yongbo Chen , Yanhao Zhang , Shaifali Parashar , Liang Zhao , Shoudong Huang

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

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

Current Structure-from-Motion (SfM) methods typically follow a two-stage pipeline, combining learned or geometric pairwise reasoning with a subsequent global optimization step. In contrast, we propose a data-driven multi-view reasoning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Qitao Zhao , Amy Lin , Jeff Tan , Jason Y. Zhang , Deva Ramanan , Shubham Tulsiani

This paper addresses the problem of recovering projective camera matrices from collections of fundamental matrices in multiview settings. We make two main contributions. First, given ${n \choose 2}$ fundamental matrices computed for $n$…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Yoni Kasten , Amnon Geifman , Meirav Galun , Ronen Basri

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

Recovering the 3D structure of the surrounding environment is an essential task in any vision-controlled Structure-from-Motion (SfM) scheme. This paper focuses on the theoretical properties of the SfM, known as the incremental active depth…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Romulo T. Rodrigues , Pedro Miraldo , Dimos V. Dimarogonas , A. Pedro Aguiar

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

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

This paper presents a neural incremental Structure-from-Motion (SfM) approach, Level-S$^2$fM, which estimates the camera poses and scene geometry from a set of uncalibrated images by learning coordinate MLPs for the implicit surfaces and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Yuxi Xiao , Nan Xue , Tianfu Wu , Gui-Song Xia