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SeeSE3: Emergence of 3D Space in Vision Features

arXiv:2607. 14228v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In this paper, we ask whether vision foundation models construct representations that reflect the intrinsic properties of 3D Euclidean space.

arXiv AI
3d ago

Emergent Multi-View Geometry Through Self-Distillation

The paper introduces Poincar3, a self‑supervised method that learns multi‑view representations through self‑distillation rather than RGB reconstruction. By combining masked patch and image‑level distillation with a teacher that sees additional views, it trains from scratch without explicit 3D supervision. Poincar3 surpasses prior single‑ and multi‑view self‑supervised methods on tasks such as correspondence estimation, camera pose estimation, and 3D reconstruction, and its features encode camera motion more accurately thanks to a lightweight Poincaré adapter.

By David Nordstr\"om, Thibaut Loiseau, Vincent Lepetit, Michael Felsberg, Guillaume Bourmaud, Fredrik Kahl
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 7

CrossDepth: Geometry-Constrained Attention for Generalizable Multi-View Surround Depth Estimation

CrossDepth introduces geometry-constrained attention for multi-view surround depth estimation, addressing cross-image inconsistencies caused by varying camera intrinsics and limited receptive fields. The method conditions features on per-pixel camera-aware ray embeddings and extends pixel context via cross-image attention limited to geometrically plausible regions. Trained self-supervised with photometric consistency, it achieves better depth accuracy and consistency on DDAD and nuScenes compared to existing self-supervised approaches.

By Samer Abualhanud, Max Mehltretter
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 22

GAE: Learning a Geometry-Native Latent Space for 3D-Consistent World Generation

The paper introduces the Geometry‑Native Autoencoder (GAE), a compact latent space that can be decoded into appearance, depth, camera parameters, and point maps, enabling 3D‑consistent world generation. By reparameterizing a geometry foundation model’s features, GAE replaces traditional appearance‑centric latents and improves visual quality and 3D coherence, achieving significant reductions in FVD and camera‑trajectory error on benchmark datasets. The work demonstrates that a geometry‑native latent space can serve as a shared interface between perception and generation models.

By Jiahao Lu, Minghao Yin, Wenbo Hu, Hengyu Liu, Wang Zhao, Sai-Kit Yeung, Ying Shan, Yuan Liu
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 4

Learning Geometric Representations from Videos for Spatial Intelligent Multimodal Large Language Models

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) excel at 2D semantic understanding but lack intrinsic 3D awareness, resulting in representations that fail to maintain geometric and spatial consistency across video frames. Given the scarcity of large-scale 3D data, we present GeoVR, a novel framework that learns geometric representations using purely 2D video sequences.

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
Sep 3

Zero-Shot Novel Depth Synthesis Using 3D Foundation Models Scene Representations

The paper explores how 3D Foundation Models (3DFMs) like VGGT can be leveraged for zero‑shot depth synthesis. By decoding hidden surfaces from the models’ internal representations, the authors introduce Z3D, a method that uses latent diffusion on 3DFM representations to estimate pointmaps in unseen views. Experiments demonstrate that Z3D can generate realistic depth maps across multiple datasets.