The paper introduces a benchmark for evaluating Structure-from-Motion (SfM) methods used in novel view synthesis (NVS) such as NeRFs and 3DGS. It compares classical SfM, which relies on local feature matches and bundle adjustment, with recent neural network approaches that regress camera parameters directly for faster but less accurate results. The study finds that reducing feature counts speeds up classical SfM without sacrificing pose accuracy, and that combining neural network initial estimates with classical refinement yields the best balance of efficiency and effectiveness.
By Jhacson Meza, Martin R. Oswald, Torsten Sattler
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.
By Charles Javerliat, Pierre Raimbaud, Guillaume Lavou\'e
arXiv:2610.19734v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: In this paper we present a method for optimally estimating the rotation and translation between a camera and a 3-D object from point and/or line corres...
By Thai Quynh Phong, Radu Horaud, Adnan Yassine, Pham Dinh Tao
arXiv:2412.01090v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Video depth estimation is essential for applications such as autonomous driving, AR/VR, and robotics. Recent transformer-based single-image monocul...
By Sunghun Yang, Minhyeok Lee, Suhwan Cho, Jungho Lee, Sangyoun Lee
The paper proposes a new sequence-to-sequence formulation for multi-view stereo (MVS) that jointly predicts 3D geometry for all input views using a global transformer architecture. It introduces ray‑map embeddings to inject camera parameters into image tokens and a unified global cost volume to capture 3D structure across all views. Experiments on public benchmarks demonstrate state‑of‑the‑art performance, outperforming both traditional MVS and feed‑forward reconstruction baselines.
By Aoxiang Fan, Corentin Dumery, Nicolas Talabot, Pascal Fua
The paper introduces CalfVO, a monocular visual odometry system that operates without camera intrinsics, test‑time optimization, bundle adjustment, or loop closure. Using a transformer, it predicts relative poses with separate rotation and translation confidences over overlapping image windows, then aggregates these predictions via a confidence‑weighted module to produce a single trajectory. CalfVO achieves the highest accuracy among calibration‑free methods across five benchmarks and runs at 53 FPS, outperforming all baselines.
By Vladimir Yugay, Duy-Kien Nguyen, Theo Gevers, Cees G. M. Snoek, Martin R. Oswald
arXiv:2609.13263v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Projective shape analysis provides a geometric framework for studying landmark configurations in digital images acquired by pinhole cameras. In the cla...
By Musab Alamoudi, Robert L. Paige, Vic Patrangenaru
TAPVid-MV is a new benchmark for tracking any point in 3D across multiple synchronized camera views. It comprises 284 sequences, 1,142 calibrated camera streams, and 109,769 point tracks, covering indoor and outdoor domains and derived from various modalities such as depth, LiDAR, SLAM, and simulation. The dataset is visually verified, and evaluation shows that current multi‑view trackers do not consistently outperform monocular trackers, highlighting geometry recovery as a key bottleneck.
By Skanda Koppula, Frano Rajic, Abdullah Faiz Ur Rahman, Yi Yang, Ignacio Rocco, Jeet Thakwani, Rishabh Kabra, Andrew Zisserman, Joao Carreira, Siyu Tang, Carl Doersch, Gabriel Brostow
arXiv:2610.28284v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Geometric Relative Positional Encoding has become the primary mechanism for injecting spatial inductive biases into multi-view transformers. Existing d...
By Huachen Gao, Yang Yang, Xiaoqian Liang, Xingyu Chen, Youjia Zhang, Qi Zhang, Baorui Ma, Anpei Chen, Wei Yang
The paper addresses the lack of standardized evaluation for single‑view novel view synthesis by highlighting the importance of aligning a method’s reference frame with the ground‑truth camera pose. It proposes using traditional 2D‑to‑2D and 2D‑to‑3D image matching to align 3D reconstructions and restricts evaluation to co‑visible regions where a correct ground truth exists. Experiments show that with proper alignment, 3D Gaussian‑based methods reach state‑of‑the‑art performance, and a simple baseline using a video generator and geometry estimator matches specialized novel‑view synthesis models without task‑specific training.
By Yang-Che Tseng, Erqun Dong, Jeong-gi Kwak, Gopal Sharma, Shakiba Kheradmand, Stephan Garbin, Hossam Isack, Kwang Moo Yi
The paper introduces CamTrol++, a training‑free method that stabilizes camera‑controlled novel view synthesis from a single image by decomposing large camera motions into small autoregressive steps, thereby limiting per‑step distortion and error accumulation. It also incorporates geometry‑constrained spatial attention, low‑frequency appearance anchoring, and a registration‑free warping pipeline to further enhance stability. Experiments on RealEstate10K and MegaScene demonstrate improved temporal and geometric consistency, better downstream 3D reconstruction quality, and higher generation efficiency, even for long 56‑frame sequences and under depth corruption.
By Prajwal Singh, Arjun Badola, Seema Kumari, Hajime Nagahara, Shanmuganathan Raman
arXiv:2609.24482v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Monocular 3D human pose estimation (HPE) remains challenging due to depth ambiguity, occlu- sions, and the need for temporal consistency. While multi-v...
By Mena Kamel, Natalie Won, Amrut Sarangi, Sven Jager, Albert Pla Planas