GeoCond is a lightweight reliability adapter that enhances frozen feed‑forward 3D reconstruction backbones by reading their predicted geometry to produce pose‑level uncertainty and a refinement gate. It can be trained using permutation‑orbit variance, ground‑truth pose error, or cycle residuals from unlabeled pose graphs, and at inference requires only a single backbone pass plus a small MLP. On the VGGT backbone, GeoCond reduces out‑of‑distribution AUSE from 0.32 to 0.20, transfers zero‑shot to outdoor extreme‑view scenes, and prevents collapse from uniform bundle adjustment, while also enabling gated refinement, pose‑graph weighting, calibration, curation, and capture decisions.
By David Ahmedt-Aristizabal, Mohammad Ali Armin, Russell Tsuchida, Lars Petersson
Feed-forward 3D foundation models such as VGGT predict cameras, depth, and point maps in a single pass, but can fail silently under low overlap, low parallax, and extreme relative rotation. Stratified...
arXiv:2607. 02561v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Consumer depth sensors such as the LiDAR scanner on recent iPhones provide metric range, but their useful range is short and their returns are sparse.
By Jinwen Wen
The paper introduces G-ray, a ray-level relative position encoding for multi-view vision Transformers that remains consistent across different camera projections. By parameterizing rotary phases with camera-local ray angles, G-ray achieves projection-invariant positional consistency and can be integrated with existing encodings without extra learned parameters. Experiments on 3D reconstruction and novel-view synthesis benchmarks show that G-ray improves performance, notably reducing mean pointmap relative error by 45.8% over MapAnything.
By Shuo Zhang, Xin Su, Wei Wang, Jun Liu, Xinrui Zeng, Yongsen Chen, Chenjie Wang, Guibo Zhu, Jinqiao Wang, Bin Luo, Liangpei Zhang
arXiv:2608. 07579v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The AI City Challenge 2026 Track 1 evaluates multi-camera 3D perception in large indoor warehouses under a synthetic-to-real (Sim2Real) setting; depth is available only for training and validation, so inference is RGB-only.
By Abdullah Naeem, Anav Katwal, Ayon Dey, Noman Khan, Md Tamjidul Hoque
arXiv:2610.07883v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: A correctly reconstructed distant point appears uncertain even when a frozen 3D model processes equivalent inputs because its output frame rotates frac...
By Sammam Mahdi, Fariha Binta Salim, Rakin Bin Rabbani, Aniqua Nusrat Zereen
We study relative position encoding for multi-view vision Transformers under camera heterogeneity, including varying fields of view (FoVs) or projection models. Existing rotary relative position encod...
The paper introduces Self-Geometry, a plug‑and‑play test‑time adaptation framework that enforces explicit multi‑view geometric constraints on Vision Foundation Models (VFMs) using 2D pixel correspondences as pseudo ground truth. It combines Geometric Disentanglement Optimization—mixing Multi‑View and Epipolar Consistency losses with Gradient Disentanglement—to avoid gradient conflicts, a Frame Angular‑Neighbor sampler based on SO(3) geodesic distances to select informative views, and a Lightweight TTA module that adapts VFMs via LoRA. Experiments on six VFMs and four benchmarks (7Scenes, ETH3D, ScanNet++, HiRoom) show consistent improvements in pose and geometry estimation.
By Seokhyun Youn, Dahyeon Kye, Sung-Ho Bae, Jihyong Oh
arXiv:2608.22300v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Co-registration underlies nearly every multi-temporal and multi-sensor use of optical satellite imagery, and operational products still carry documente...
By Shoukun Sun, Zhe Wang, Sanaz Salati, Jiyin Zhang, Hui Wang, Xiaogang Ma
Efficient Confidence-Aware Densification for 3DGS proposes a new densification strategy for 3D Gaussian Splatting that replaces opacity-based sampling with error-driven placement of primitives. The method keeps a fixed primitive budget and places new primitives where image error and low learned confidence are highest, relocating under-contributing primitives accordingly. Across 24 scenes, it outperforms existing fixed-budget methods—including 3DGS-MCMC, ConeGS, and EDGS—in PSNR, SSIM, and LPIPS at budgets from 100k to 2M primitives, and can also leverage prior-based initialization to match or exceed prior methods.
By Manuel Hofer, Thomas K\"ohler, Felix Windisch, Bernhard Kerbl, Markus Steinberger, Lukas Radl
arXiv:2607. 00417v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In the era of satellite constellations, multi-view optical satellite imagery is pivotal for Earth Observation (EO) and high-quality Digital Surface Model (DSM) reconstruction.
By Qiyan Luo, Yingdong Pi, Lekang Wen, Jie Yang, Xiaoyu Wang, Haiming Zhang, Mi Wang
ARC‑Loc introduces a new cross‑view localization method that bypasses heavy Bird’s‑Eye‑View transformations and external depth models. By converting ground keypoints into azimuthal rays on a satellite map and exploiting their convergence at the user’s location, the approach uses a minimal Azimuthal Ray Convergence solver and an ARC loss to directly match ground and satellite images. Experiments on VIGOR and KITTI show that ARC‑Loc achieves competitive accuracy while offering faster, memory‑efficient inference and easy integration with existing frameworks.
By Hyeongsik Kim, Mincheol Kim, Heejoon Moon, Je Hyeong Hong