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View-graph is an essential input to large-scale structure from motion (SfM) pipelines. Accuracy and efficiency of large-scale SfM is crucially dependent on the input view-graph. Inconsistent or inaccurate edges can lead to inferior or wrong…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Rajvi Shah , Visesh Chari , P J Narayanan

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

The reconstruction of accurate three-dimensional environment models is one of the most fundamental goals in the field of photogrammetry. Since satellite images provide suitable properties for obtaining large-scale environment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Sebastian Bullinger , Christoph Bodensteiner , Michael Arens

In this paper we introduce a vision-aided navigation (VAN) pipeline designed to support ground navigation of autonomous aircraft. The proposed algorithm combines the computational efficiency of indirect methods with the robustness of direct…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Daniel Choate , Jason Rife

Even though Non-rigid Structure-from-Motion (NRSfM) has been extensively studied and great progress has been made, there are still key challenges that hinder their broad real-world applications: 1) the inherent motion/rotation ambiguity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Jiawei Shi , Hui Deng , Yuchao Dai

We present a novel Structure from Motion pipeline that is capable of reconstructing accurate camera poses for panorama-style video capture without prior camera intrinsic calibration. While panorama-style capture is common and convenient,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Chris Sweeney , Aleksander Holynski , Brian Curless , Steve M Seitz

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

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

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has revolutionized neural rendering with its efficiency and quality, but like many novel view synthesis methods, it heavily depends on accurate camera poses from Structure-from-Motion (SfM) systems. Although…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Zhisheng Huang , Peng Wang , Jingdong Zhang , Yuan Liu , Xin Li , Wenping Wang

We present Dense-SfM, a novel Structure from Motion (SfM) framework designed for dense and accurate 3D reconstruction from multi-view images. Sparse keypoint matching, which traditional SfM methods often rely on, limits both accuracy and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-29 JongMin Lee , Sungjoo Yoo

Robust parameter estimation is a crucial task in several 3D computer vision pipelines such as Structure from Motion (SfM). State-of-the-art algorithms for robust estimation, however, still suffer from difficulties in converging to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Huu Le , Christopher Zach

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

In this paper, we present a complete refractive Structure-from-Motion (RSfM) framework for underwater 3D reconstruction using refractive camera setups (for both, flat- and dome-port underwater housings). Despite notable achievements in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Mengkun She , Felix Seegräber , David Nakath , Kevin Köser

We demonstrate the use of shape-from-shading (SfS) to improve both the quality and the robustness of 3D reconstruction of dynamic objects captured by a single camera. Unlike previous approaches that made use of SfS as a post-processing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Qi Liu-Yin , Rui Yu , Lourdes Agapito , Andrew Fitzgibbon , Chris Russell

Directly regressing the non-rigid shape and camera pose from the individual 2D frame is ill-suited to the Non-Rigid Structure-from-Motion (NRSfM) problem. This frame-by-frame 3D reconstruction pipeline overlooks the inherent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Hui Deng , Tong Zhang , Yuchao Dai , Jiawei Shi , Yiran Zhong , Hongdong Li

We completely classify all minimal problems for Structure-from-Motion (SfM) where arrangements of points and lines are fully observed by multiple uncalibrated pinhole cameras. We find 291 minimal problems, 73 of which have unique solutions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Kim Kiehn , Albin Ahlbäck , Kathlén Kohn

Reassembling multiple axially symmetric pots from fragmentary sherds is crucial for cultural heritage preservation, yet it poses significant challenges due to thin and sharp fracture surfaces that generate numerous false positive matches…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-21 Seong Jong Yoo , Sisung Liu , Muhammad Zeeshan Arshad , Jinhyeok Kim , Young Min Kim , Yiannis Aloimonos , Cornelia Fermuller , Kyungdon Joo , Jinwook Kim , Je Hyeong Hong

Calibrating large-scale camera arrays, such as those in dome-based setups, is time-intensive and typically requires dedicated captures of known patterns. While extrinsics in such arrays are fixed due to the physical setup, intrinsics often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Jinjiang You , Hewei Wang , Yijie Li , Mingxiao Huo , Long Van Tran Ha , Mingyuan Ma , Jinfeng Xu , Jiayi Zhang , Puzhen Wu , Shubham Garg , Wei Pu

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

Non-Rigid Structure from Motion (NRSfM) refers to the problem of reconstructing cameras and the 3D point cloud of a non-rigid object from an ensemble of images with 2D correspondences. Current NRSfM algorithms are limited from two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Chen Kong , Simon Lucey