XCalib is an unsupervised dense registration framework that aligns thermal and visible video streams by optimizing virtual pinhole camera parameters and predicted monocular depth, thereby restricting spatial displacements to physically valid projection geometries. It introduces a novel registration paradigm using camera parameterization as an implicit regularizer, a robust Normalized Edges Correlation (NEC) metric for cross‑spectral alignment, and demonstrates superior temporal stability and alignment accuracy on public ADAS datasets compared to unconstrained dense flow baselines.
arXiv:2610.35637v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Due to the inherent discrepancies in imaging viewpoints and field-of-view mismatches among multi-modal sensors, existing fusion methods have long strug...
The paper introduces PointVGGT, a zero‑shot framework for multiview RGB‑D point cloud registration that replaces the traditional pairwise‑then‑global pipeline. It employs a foundation‑then‑refinement paradigm, using visual geometry foundation models to directly recover metrically consistent global poses and then refining them with voxelized spatial hashing and IRLS‑based bundle adjustment. Experiments on indoor, object‑centric, and outdoor datasets demonstrate superior registration accuracy and computational efficiency without any training.
arXiv:2512. 16919v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Perceiving and reconstructing 3D scene geometry from visual inputs is crucial for autonomous driving.
The paper introduces DPA-I2P, a depth-guided projective alignment method for image-to-point-cloud registration in autonomous driving. It employs Ray-Conditioned Metric Depth Encoding and Projection-Consistent Vision Lifting to align depth and visual cues geometrically, and uses Cross-Modal Query Pruning to enhance matching stability. Experiments on KITTI and nuScenes show significant reductions in rotation and translation errors compared to existing implicit baselines.
arXiv:2611.07081v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-perspective-camera systems are widely adopted since they provide broad visual coverage for autonomous driving, motivating the synthesis of a unif...
The paper introduces PointVGGT, a zero‑shot framework for multiview RGB‑D point cloud registration that avoids pairwise estimation by using a foundation‑then‑refinement paradigm. In the foundation stage, it recovers metrically consistent global poses by grounding scale‑ambiguous predictions from visual geometry foundation models against metric depth. The refinement stage employs voxelized spatial hashing and IRLS‑based bundle adjustment to efficiently refine poses, achieving high accuracy and computational efficiency across indoor, object‑centric, and outdoor datasets.
DXPR is a depth‑based cross‑modal place recognition framework that matches monocular camera queries to a LiDAR map using a single vision foundation model backbone. By converting both modalities into a unified depth image representation, DXPR learns modality‑invariant global descriptors without modality‑specific encoders. A geometry‑aware overlap miner refines pairwise metric learning by computing pixel‑level overlap scores, and extensive tests on KITTI and Boreas show strong performance across seasons, weather, and day/night conditions, outperforming prior CMPR baselines.
Kineo is a fully automatic, calibration‑free pipeline that performs markerless motion capture using unsynchronized, uncalibrated consumer‑grade RGB cameras. It uses 2D keypoints from existing detectors to jointly calibrate cameras (including distortion), reconstruct 3D keypoints, and generate dense scene pointmaps at metric scale. The method introduces confidence‑aware subsampling, graph‑based optimization, and a pairwise reprojection consistency score to achieve robust calibration and accurate metric scale recovery, achieving significant error reductions on EgoHumans and Human3.6M datasets while remaining computationally efficient.
SymRegFlow is a symmetry‑regularized flow‑matching framework that enables multi‑view‑consistent video generation across continuously varying camera poses without requiring ground‑truth novel‑view RGB supervision. The method geometrically warps source views into noisy anchors and uses masked dual‑anchor supervision combined with cross‑anchor denoising‑output consistency to reduce anchor‑specific errors. Experiments on Cosmos‑Drive‑Dreams and nuScenes show that SymRegFlow achieves superior video quality, achieving the lowest FVD and FVMD scores and improving FID and instance preservation compared to existing baselines.
arXiv:2608.30521v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Conventional algebraic triangulation solves 3D human pose estimation (HPE) from multi-view 2D keypoints. The typical approach, decoding 2D keypoints fr...
The paper introduces DPA-I2P, a depth‑guided projective alignment method for image‑to‑point‑cloud registration in autonomous driving. It employs Ray‑Conditioned Metric Depth Encoding and Projection‑Consistent Vision Lifting to align depth and visual cues geometrically, and uses Cross‑Modal Query Pruning to filter unreliable matches during refinement. Experiments on KITTI and nuScenes show significant improvements, reducing rotation and translation errors by up to 55.6% compared to existing implicit baselines.
arXiv:2608.13147v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Camera-based autonomous driving perception requires a shared representation that preserves metric 3D structure across synchronized multi-camera str...