MVLoMa is a sparse star‑graph matcher that extends the LoMa framework from image pairs to multi‑view settings. It uses a frozen multi‑view geometry model to jointly describe all images in a star, injecting cross‑view geometric context into local descriptors and matching the centre image to all neighbours in a single forward pass. On several datasets, MVLoMa achieves the best macro‑average relative‑pose AUC and is more than twice as fast as sequential pairwise evaluation, while supporting multiple frozen geometry encoders and demonstrating the benefits of geometry‑aware descriptors, visibility filtering, and joint inference.
By Xinyang Lu, Shengzhe Wei, Sheng Tang, Weiqi Zhang, Juntong Fang, Zesong Li
Classical image correspondence is solved at the level of sparse keypoints or dense pixels, but the systems that consume these matches - object-level mapping, topological navigation, scene-graph maintenance - reason about whole objects. Recent work narrows this gap by matchng directly at the level of instance segments: a class-agnostic segmenter partitions each image, and per-segment descriptors are obtained by pooling features from large 3D foundation models over the masks.
arXiv:2607.02486v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Descriptor-free visual localization eliminates high-dimensional descriptor storage, preserves scene privacy, and simplifies map maintenance, yet it...
By Yejun Zhang, Xinjue Wang, Zihan Wang, Esa Rahtu, Juho Kannala
arXiv:2606.03406v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Reliable correspondence estimation supports image processing and 3D vision tasks, including Structure from Motion, visual localization, and image r...
By Xu Pan, Zhen Pang, Qiyuan Ma, Wei Ji, Shuhan Shen, Xianwei Zheng
arXiv:2610.01098v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Illusory matches between distinct yet visually similar 3D surfaces--doppelgangers--remain a fundamental obstacle for large-scale, in-the-wild 3D recons...
By Hanyuan Xiao, Gonglin Chen, Haolin Xiong, Wenbin Teng, Haiwei Chen, Yajie Zhao
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
GeoStore is a new benchmark for fine‑grained point‑of‑interest (POI) localization that matches close‑up storefront photos against large geo‑tagged street‑view images, a task distinct from traditional visual place recognition. The paper shows that global‑descriptor methods designed for symmetric matching perform poorly on this asymmetric problem, and introduces GLAM, a Global‑to‑Local Asymmetric Matching approach that combines a global retrieval anchor with a lightweight local re‑ranking using pooled region tokens. GLAM achieves higher Recall@1/5/10 and mAP than strong baselines while using far fewer re‑ranking features and significantly lower per‑pair matching cost.
By Lu Han, Xiting Sun, Hao Wang, Zhiqiang Cao, Ruihuan Du, Ziquan Zeng, Chunlong Lv
arXiv:2606.16569v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Registering two captures of the same indoor space taken at different times underpins persistent spatial memory for robots and AR systems, yet the r...
By Zhiang Chen, Nahyuk Lee, Boyang Sun, Taein Kwon, Marc Pollefeys, Zuria Bauer, Sunghwan Hong
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:2606.29167v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Dense correspondence on in-the-wild 3D scans must handle severe non-isometric deformation, partial observations, topology artifacts, irregular disc...
By Qilong Liu, Qinfeng Xiao, Chenyuan Yi, Yongsheng Lin, Liying Zhang, Kit-lun Yick
arXiv:2608.29733v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Visual aliasing, also known as the doppelganger problem, remains a key challenge for structure-from-motion (SfM): visually similar but physically disti...
By Gonglin Chen, Ben Southall, Hanyuan Xiao, Wenbin Teng, Haolin Xiong, Tianwen Fu, Junyi Ouyang, Kshitij Singh Minhas, Supun Samarasekera, Rakesh Kumar, Yajie Zhao
arXiv:2607.20116v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Global visual localization of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) using remote-sensing reference maps has attracted increasing attention. However, diff...
By Xin Li, Siyuan Duan, Shang Wang, Zhimin Mao, Bingliang Hu, Geng Zhang