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
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 18

Monocular Visual Odometry without Calibration or Test-time Optimization

The paper introduces CalfVO, a monocular visual odometry system that operates without camera intrinsics, test‑time optimization, bundle adjustment, or loop closure. Using a transformer, it predicts relative poses with separate rotation and translation confidences over overlapping image windows, then aggregates these predictions via a confidence‑weighted module to produce a single trajectory. CalfVO achieves the highest accuracy among calibration‑free methods across five benchmarks and runs at 53 FPS, outperforming all baselines.

By Vladimir Yugay, Duy-Kien Nguyen, Theo Gevers, Cees G. M. Snoek, Martin R. Oswald