arXiv:2511.21265v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Learning-based image matching critically depends on large-scale, diverse, and geometrically accurate training data. 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) en...
arXiv:2605.15195v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent feed-forward reconstruction models, such as VGGT, have proven competitive with traditional optimization-based reconstructors while also prov...
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: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...
Geometry-Aligned Semantic Matching for Cross-Modal Planar Image Registration proposes CDPM, a method that first aligns semantic representations across modalities and then refines correspondences with fine-grained CNN features. CDPM adapts DINOv3 using geometrically consistent cross-modal patch pairs, builds a DINO-Centric Feature Pyramid for stable cross-modal matching, and adds a lightweight CNN branch for precise local refinement. Experiments on three cross-modal datasets show that CDPM outperforms existing dense matchers, improving AUC metrics and reducing mACE while using fewer FLOPs.
SemGeo-Gen is an unsupervised approach that generates approximate cross‑instance semantic‑geometric correspondences from weakly aligned 3D object collections. It uses coarse category‑level rotation alignment, lifts multi‑view DINOv2 features to 3D, applies continuous piecewise‑affine registration, and prunes matches with semantic consistency to produce 3D correspondences that can be projected into 2D views for scalable supervision. The method achieves high accuracy against human annotations and improves state‑of‑the‑art semantic correspondence models after synthetic pretraining.
arXiv:2610.07958v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Feed-forward 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) reconstructs a scene in a single forward pass, replacing per-scene optimization with a network trained across...
The paper introduces SADGE, a quantitative similarity metric that predicts how well synthetic image datasets will perform on real-world computer vision tasks without requiring downstream model training. SADGE combines appearance and geometric similarity measures through a constrained bilinear interaction, outperforming appearance-only and geometry-only baselines across 79,000 image pairs in five synthetic-to-real benchmark families. The study demonstrates that the non‑linear interplay between appearance and geometry, rather than either alone, best predicts downstream performance in tasks such as object detection, semantic segmentation, and pose estimation.
arXiv:2610.23039v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Feed-forward Gaussian models have made novel view synthesis almost instantaneous. Feed-forward methods predict Gaussians directly, either in two stages...
arXiv:2608. 05774v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Joint-embedding predictive architectures learn by predicting latent representations of missing observations, yet many masked JEPAs are evaluated primarily through the encoders they produce.
The paper introduces OVIE, a monocular novel-view synthesis method that eliminates the need for multi‑view training data. By using a frozen depth estimator to generate pseudo‑target views from single images and applying masked and adversarial losses, OVIE is trained on 30 million uncurated images. It achieves state‑of‑the‑art performance on RealEstate10K and DL3DV, produces highly consistent multi‑view trajectories, and runs at 116 FPS—over 600× faster than the fastest baseline.
Zebra3D introduces a layerwise sparse‑linear hybrid attention framework that enhances the efficiency of pretrained 3D foundation models without requiring training from scratch. By assigning linear‑centered attention to tolerant early stages and tile‑sparse attention to sensitive middle‑to‑late stages, it preserves context through landmark summaries and enables training‑free conversion via closed‑form affine fitting. Across multiple backbones, Zebra3D achieves strong reconstruction and camera‑pose accuracy with high attention sparsity, delivering up to 7.1× speedups at 1,024 views and maintaining performance close to dense counterparts after optional post‑conversion training.