HoloRecon proposes a panoramic reconstruction framework that merges ORB-based sparse mapping with a fine-tuned feed-forward model to achieve accurate localization and globally consistent dense mapping over long sequences. By using predicted local geometry for 3D verification of feature matches, the method establishes long-range camera constraints even between distant revisits, calibrates depths with sparse landmarks, and optimizes a global pose graph. The authors also introduce PanoRecon, a seven-scene benchmark for evaluating global consistency, and report that HoloRecon achieves the lowest mean absolute trajectory error and high F‑1 Score among evaluated methods.
By Zhuoxiao Li, Xinyi Liu, Hongye Hou, Jing OU, Kang Du, Shuai Zhang, Dongli Wu, Taoyu Wu, Siyuan Feng, Xiaohui Zhu, Wufan Zhao
arXiv:2608.23290v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Accurate visual localization on robotic and wearable platforms remains challenging in dense urban environments. Existing methodologies typically rely o...
By Antoni Valls, Jordi Sanchez-Riera
arXiv:2608.29211v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Ground image localization with respect to satellite imagery is a key enabler for metrically-accurate, geo-localized 3D scene reconstruction from uncons...
By Angel Daruna, Ben Southall, Niluthpol Chowdhury Mithun, Kshitij Minhas, Nicholas Meegan, Qiao Wang, Bogdan Matei, Supun Samarasekera, Rakesh Kumar
arXiv:2609.13504v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Recent developments in feed-forward 3D reconstruction resulted in models which can recover dense scene representations and camera motion solely from an...
By Tingjun Huang, Dmitry Rudshin, Mathieu Meyer, Pietro Bonazzi, Marc Pollefeys, Emilia Szyma\'nska
arXiv:2608.22289v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) increasingly require robust visual localization in GNSS-denied environments. A common solution estimates UAV poses by m...
By Yibin Ye, Xichao Teng, Shuo Chen, Xiaokai Song, Dongdong Guan, Qifeng Yu, Zhang Li
GeoPano is a feed‑forward framework that reconstructs geometrically accurate 3D point clouds from a single panoramic image. It introduces a panoramic‑aware attention aggregator with a novel Pano‑Attention mechanism to exploit spherical geometry and reduce cross‑view inconsistencies. A hybrid supervision strategy enforces both fine‑grained local detail in perspective views and global structural coherence in spherical space, leading to superior reconstruction accuracy, consistency, and visual fidelity compared to prior state‑of‑the‑art methods.
By Jing OU, Zidong Cao, Liaoyuan Fan, Zhuoxiao Li, Shuai Zhang, Yinrui Ren, Dongli Wu, Haoang Li, Hui Xiong, Wufan Zhao
arXiv:2608.28891v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Pixel-level cross-view geo-registration aims to align a query image (e.g., drone) to a geo-referenced satellite map so that every query pixel can be ma...
By Qingyang Liu, David G Shatwell, Parth Parag Kulkarni, Mubarak Shah
The paper presents a framework that builds a static point cloud prior map from past camera traversals, augmenting each point with DINOv3 semantic features. During runtime, a local prior patch is retrieved, encoded with a sparse voxel backbone, and fused with lifted multi‑view camera features in bird’s‑eye view. This fused representation is then used by sparse transformer heads to predict 3D objects and vectorized map elements, achieving improved performance on Argoverse 2 without requiring LiDAR for prior‑map construction or online inference.
By Markus K\"appeler, Rohit Mohan, Abhinav Valada
Metric scale monocular geometry estimation has seen significant progress through large-scale data aggregation, yet current foundation models suffer from a persistent ''scale-collapse'' phenomenon: distant landmarks and vast landscapes are metrically underestimated. We hypothesize that this performance gap stems from a training data bottleneck, where existing metric-scale datasets are hardware-constrained to homogenous vehicle-captured LiDAR or short-range indoor scans, or consist of synthetic data that lacks the semantic complexity of the physical world.
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...
By Longfei Xu, Xiaohui Wang, Zehao Huang, Han Li, Ya Yang, Naiyan Wang, Si Liu
arXiv:2609.09394v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Recovering metric 3D geometry from monocular images is a fundamental computer vision task, yet current methods remain heavily fragmented by fixed camer...
By Botao Ye, Marc Pollefeys, Ming-Hsuan Yang, Abhijit Kundu
Visual localization becomes extremely challenging in planetary-like terrains characterized by low texture, perceptual aliasing, harsh illumination, and sparse, weakly overlapping viewpoints induced by forward rover motion and unconstrained driving directions. Under these conditions, state-of-the-art image-to-image and image-to-map matching pipelines suffer significant performance degradation.