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DUSt3R-based end-to-end scene reconstruction has recently shown promising results in dense visual SLAM. However, most existing methods only use image pairs to estimate pointmaps, overlooking spatial memory and global consistency.To this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Guole Shen , Tianchen Deng , Yanbo Wang , Yongtao Chen , Yilin Shen , Jiuming Liu , Jingchuan Wang

Recent advances in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) deliver striking photorealism, and extending it to large scenes opens new opportunities for semantic reasoning and prediction in applications such as autonomous driving. Today's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Shengkai Zhang , Yuhe Liu , Jianhua He , Xuedou Xiao , Mozi Chen , Kezhong Liu

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

A proper scene representation is central to the pursuit of spatial intelligence where agents can robustly reconstruct and efficiently understand 3D scenes. A scene representation is either metric, such as landmark maps in 3D reconstruction,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Juexiao Zhang , Gao Zhu , Sihang Li , Xinhao Liu , Haorui Song , Xinran Tang , Chen Feng

In monocular videos that capture dynamic scenes, estimating the 3D geometry of video contents has been a fundamental challenge in computer vision. Specifically, the task is significantly challenged by the object motion, where existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Seong Hyeon Park , Jinwoo Shin

In this paper, we present a novel framework designed to reconstruct long-sequence 3D human motion in the world coordinates from in-the-wild videos with multiple shot transitions. Such long-sequence in-the-wild motions are highly valuable to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Yuhong Zhang , Guanlin Wu , Ling-Hao Chen , Zhuokai Zhao , Jing Lin , Xiaoke Jiang , Jiamin Wu , Zhuoheng Li , Hao Frank Yang , Haoqian Wang , Lei Zhang

Monocular shape-from-polarization (SfP) leverages the intrinsic relationship between light polarization properties and surface geometry to recover surface normals from single-view polarized images, providing a compact and robust approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Jinyu Zhang , Xu Ma , Weili Chen , Gonzalo R. Arce

Contextual information can have a substantial impact on the performance of visual tasks such as semantic segmentation, object detection, and geometric estimation. Data stored in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) offers a rich source of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-02-22 Raúl Díaz , Minhaeng Lee , Jochen Schubert , Charless C. Fowlkes

Structure from motion is the process of recovering information about cameras and 3D scene from a set of images. Generally, in a noise-free setting, all information can be uniquely recovered if enough images and image points are provided.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Martin Bråtelund

Recently, state space models (SSM), particularly Mamba, have attracted significant attention from scholars due to their ability to effectively balance computational efficiency and performance. However, most existing visual Mamba methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Leiye Liu , Miao Zhang , Jihao Yin , Tingwei Liu , Wei Ji , Yongri Piao , Huchuan Lu

Real-time 3D reconstruction of surgical scenes plays a vital role in computer-assisted surgery, holding a promise to enhance surgeons' visibility. Recent advancements in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) have shown great potential for real-time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Jiaxin Guo , Jiangliu Wang , Di Kang , Wenzhen Dong , Wenting Wang , Yun-hui Liu

Scalable and maintainable map representations are fundamental to enabling large-scale visual navigation and facilitating the deployment of robots in real-world environments. While collaborative localization across multi-session mapping…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Jianhao Jiao , Changkun Liu , Jingwen Yu , Boyi Liu , Qianyi Zhang , Yue Wang , Dimitrios Kanoulas

Shape-from-Template (SfT) methods estimate 3D surface deformations from a single monocular RGB camera while assuming a 3D state known in advance (a template). This is an important yet challenging problem due to the under-constrained nature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Navami Kairanda , Edith Tretschk , Mohamed Elgharib , Christian Theobalt , Vladislav Golyanik

Non-Rigid Structure-from-Motion (NRSfM) is a classic 3D vision problem, where a 2D sequence is taken as input to estimate the corresponding 3D sequence. Recently, the deep neural networks have greatly advanced the task of NRSfM. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Hui Deng , Jiawei Shi , Zhen Qin , Yiran Zhong , Yuchao Dai

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

Various datasets have been proposed for simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) and related problems. Existing datasets often include small environments, have incomplete ground truth, or lack important sensor data, such as depth and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Janne Mustaniemi , Juho Kannala , Esa Rahtu , Li Liu , Janne Heikkilä

We propose SfM-Net, a geometry-aware neural network for motion estimation in videos that decomposes frame-to-frame pixel motion in terms of scene and object depth, camera motion and 3D object rotations and translations. Given a sequence of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-26 Sudheendra Vijayanarasimhan , Susanna Ricco , Cordelia Schmid , Rahul Sukthankar , Katerina Fragkiadaki

Photogrammetric 3D reconstruction has long relied on traditional Structure-from-Motion (SfM) and Multi-View Stereo (MVS) methods, which provide high accuracy but face challenges in speed and scalability. Recently, learning-based MVS methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Yawen Li , George Vosselman , Francesco Nex

Existing methods for reconstructing objects and humans from a monocular image suffer from severe mesh collisions and performance limitations for interacting occluding objects. This paper introduces a method to obtain a globally consistent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Sarthak Batra , Partha P. Chakrabarti , Simon Hadfield , Armin Mustafa

We introduce a comprehensive benchmark for local features and robust estimation algorithms, focusing on the downstream task -- the accuracy of the reconstructed camera pose -- as our primary metric. Our pipeline's modular structure allows…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Yuhe Jin , Dmytro Mishkin , Anastasiia Mishchuk , Jiri Matas , Pascal Fua , Kwang Moo Yi , Eduard Trulls