arXiv AI

Geometric Consistency Protocol for Foundation Model Features in Multi-View Satellite Imagery

arXiv:2606. 17564v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Standardized evaluation protocols are indispensable for robust benchmarking in remote sensing, particularly as foundation features are increasingly transferred across diverse sensors and complex imaging geometries.

arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 1

Ground-to-Satellite Localization in Unconstrained Image Collections for 3D Scene Reconstruction

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 Computer Vision
Sep 18

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.

By Enpeng Li, Yunzhou Zhang, Zhiyao Zhang, Dexuan Lyu, Chenyu Wang, Chiyuan Cui, Cheng Cheng
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 3

Geometric Distillation from Rectified Stereo: Leveraging Epipolar Cues for Monocular Depth

The paper introduces Epipolar Distillation (EpiDistill), a method that transfers scale‑aware geometric priors from multi‑view models to monocular depth foundation models using Rectified Stereo Tokens. By preserving epipolar attention patterns, the single‑view model maintains geometric consistency without needing multi‑view inputs during inference. Experiments show significant improvements in zero‑shot metric depth estimation on challenging datasets such as ETH3D and DIODE, and the approach consistently boosts performance of state‑of‑the‑art ViT‑based models like UniDepthV2 and DepthPro.

By Jung-Hee Kim, Xiaoming Liu
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 25

FounRef: Robust, Structure-Preserving, and Fast Metric Refinement of Frozen Monocular Foundation Priors with Sparse Anchors

FounRef is a training‑free method that refines frozen monocular foundation priors into dense metric depth by aligning them with sparse metric anchors. It validates anchors against the prior’s predictions, rejects misaligned ones, and applies a structure‑preserving solver to correct depth globally and locally while preserving fine geometry. The approach works out of the box on unseen cameras and scenes, achieving up to 24% lower depth error, 92% lower surface‑normal noise, and nearly 15× faster inference than a leading depth‑completion network.

By Dan Halperin, Mirko M\"ahlisch
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
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 3

Self-Geometry: GT-Free and Plug-and-Play Test-Time Adaptation for Geometrically Consistent 3D Vision Foundation Models

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
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 1

Honey, I Shrunk the Arc de Triomphe!

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.