arXiv Computer Vision

GRF-Recon: Global Ray-Field Optimization for Long-Sequence Feed-forward Reconstruction

The paper introduces GRF-Recon, a framework for stable and scalable feed-forward 3D reconstruction from long monocular image sequences. It combines coarse-to-fine trajectory alignment, lightweight geometric prior injection via LoRA adaptation, and a hybrid-weight sparse ray-field optimization to refine local point clouds while enforcing cross-frame consistency. An efficient trajectory stitching strategy with joint ray-error optimization further reduces accumulated drift, achieving competitive trajectory accuracy compared to SLAM systems while maintaining globally consistent reconstructions in large-scale scenarios.

arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 31

GeoFF3D: Coordinate-Anchored Feed-Forward Reconstruction for Large-Scale UAV Mapping

GeoFF3D is a new feed‑forward 3D reconstruction method designed for large‑scale UAV mapping. It uses a coordinate‑anchored model that predicts camera poses and dense point maps directly in a gravity‑aligned Z‑up metric frame, while a spatial large‑scale reconstruction framework (SLRF) partitions images into overlapping chunks, propagates shared‑view priors, and aggregates local reconstructions hierarchically. Across nine aerial mapping blocks, GeoFF3D achieves the best average reconstruction quality, improving F@5 from 0.829 to 0.877, and can reconstruct 2,000 images in about five minutes.

By Xiang Yang, Yongli Wang, Yunsheng Zhang
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 22

Revisiting Multi-View Stereo: A Sequence-to-Sequence Formulation

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
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 7

BLASt3R: Bundle Adjustment of Any Image Set with Multi-View Matching and Monocular Priors

BLASt3R presents a regularized bundle adjustment framework that combines a fast multi‑view matcher with monocular priors for initialization and regularization. The method unifies online Visual SLAM and offline reconstruction from unordered image collections, using a single optimization pipeline and shared hyperparameters. Experiments show that BLASt3R improves performance and speed tradeoffs compared to traditional, feed‑forward, and hybrid baselines, and its uncalibrated VSLAM variant surpasses all previous calibrated approaches.

By Vincent Leroy, Philippe Weinzaepfel, Lojze Zust, Yohann Cabon, J\'erome Revaud
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 15

Anchor3R: Streaming 3D Reconstruction with Transient Anchors for Long-Horizon Visual Mapping

Anchor3R is a streaming 3D reconstruction framework that predicts window-relative poses and local geometry in the current‑frame coordinate system, forming a dense relative‑pose graph for online pose updates and loop‑aware motion averaging. It improves long‑horizon pose accuracy and dense reconstruction quality on indoor, outdoor, driving, and RGB‑D benchmarks, and generalizes from 48‑frame training sequences to streams exceeding 10,000 frames while keeping GPU memory bounded. The method addresses issues of train‑test mismatch, early‑anchor bias, and accumulated drift found in previous streaming models.

By Peilin Tao, Chong Cheng, Yuansen Du, Caiwei Song, Zhengqing Chen, Xiaoyang Guo, Wei Yin, Weiqiang Ren, Qian Zhang, Hainan Cui, Shuhan Shen
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 7

ARC-Loc: Leveraging Azimuthal Ray Convergence as a Geometric Cue for Direct Cross-View Localization

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