arXiv Computer Vision

VideoReloc: Long-Term Indoor Video Relocalization against a Kilobyte-Scale Semantic Scene Graph

VideoReloc presents a method for long‑term indoor video relocalization that relies on a compact semantic scene graph rather than visual appearance. By adaptively selecting clip lengths based on odometry and object‑motion criteria, the system gathers spatial evidence, verifies poses through object triplets, and refines orientation using box faces and gravity cues. This approach achieves high localization accuracy with a tiny 100 kB map, outperforming traditional appearance‑based methods on RIO10 and ReplicaCAD datasets.

arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 10

VANTAGE-Bench: Evaluating the Infrastructure AI Gap in Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2609.09396v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As Vision-Language Models (VLMs) advance toward physical deployment, the focus has remained on action-oriented Embodied AI evaluated on subject-centric...

By Zaid Pervaiz Bhat, Nimra Nayyar, Arihant Jain, Lap Fung Chan, John Suchanek, Yu Wang, Varun Praveen, Tomasz Kornuta, Vidya Nariyambut Murali
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 24

Know-Your-Scene (KYS)-SLAM: Hierarchical Semantic-Motion Priors for Feature Matching in Stereo Visual SLAM

Know-Your-Scene (KYS)-SLAM extends ORB‑SLAM3 by replacing binary feature rejection with continuous correspondence modulation based on semantic, panoptic, and motion priors. Each keypoint is augmented with hierarchical compatibility scores that down‑weight features on independently moving objects while preserving static structure, using a training‑free depth‑aware ego‑motion model and self‑calibrating thresholds. Across 21 stereo sequences, KYS‑SLAM achieves a 17.4% ATE RMSE reduction on outdoor KITTI, 27.7% on indoor EuRoC, and significant improvements on dynamic and synthetic datasets without per‑sequence tuning.

By Preeti Chatterjee, Jin Lu, Jin Sun, Suchendra M. Bhandarkar
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 21

Multi-viewpoint Geo-localization with Event Cameras

The paper presents MegaEvent, an event‑based visual place recognition system that remains robust to viewpoint changes. By converting five large‑scale geo‑tagged datasets into synthetic event streams and fine‑tuning a vision transformer with a multi‑loss function, MegaEvent achieves an average Recall@1 of 82% on three event‑based localization datasets, outperforming existing methods by 20 recall points. The authors also introduce the Springfield‑Event‑VPR dataset, a 3.7 km walking route recorded in three camera orientations, where MegaEvent surpasses the strongest baseline by 9 recall points.

By Adam D. Hines, Michael Milford, Tobias Fischer
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 3

A Top-Down Framework for Metric-Scale Athlete Localization from Single Broadcast Frames

The paper introduces a top‑down framework for accurately locating athletes in metric world coordinates using a single calibrated broadcast frame. It presents three main contributions: a Boundary‑Aware Adaptive Tiling method that expands tile boundaries to avoid splitting athletes across tiles, a specialized two‑keypoint estimator based on RTMPose‑X for pelvis and ground projection points, and a deterministic lift of 2D projections into 3D world coordinates via camera‑calibrated ray casting. The approach achieves a LocSim score of 97.44 and an mAP of 0.9128, surpassing the baseline by over 21 % on a public test set.

By Thanh-Khoi Nguyen, Hoang-Phuc Nguyen, Linh-Huynh, Minh-Triet Tran