arXiv Computer Vision
22h ago

XM4D: 4D Reconstruction through Certifiable Geometric Optimization

XM4D is a new framework for accurate 4D reconstruction that separates camera motion estimation from non‑rigid deformation. Both stages are cast as structured quadratically constrained quadratic programs (QCQPs) with semidefinite programming (SDP) relaxations, enabling certifiable global optimality. The method uses GPU‑accelerated Burer‑Monteiro solvers, initializes dynamic Gaussian splatting for refinement, and achieves state‑of‑the‑art performance on seven benchmarks.

By Haoyu Han, Jack Benarroch Jedlicki, Jiahui Lei, Heng Yang
arXiv Computer Vision
22h ago

Kineo: Calibration-Free Metric Motion Capture From Sparse RGB Cameras

Kineo is a fully automatic, calibration‑free pipeline that performs markerless motion capture using unsynchronized, uncalibrated consumer‑grade RGB cameras. It uses 2D keypoints from existing detectors to jointly calibrate cameras (including distortion), reconstruct 3D keypoints, and generate dense scene pointmaps at metric scale. The method introduces confidence‑aware subsampling, graph‑based optimization, and a pairwise reprojection consistency score to achieve robust calibration and accurate metric scale recovery, achieving significant error reductions on EgoHumans and Human3.6M datasets while remaining computationally efficient.

By Charles Javerliat, Pierre Raimbaud, Guillaume Lavou\'e
arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 9

PointVGGT: Zero-Shot Multiview RGB-D Point Cloud Registration with Visual Geometry Foundation Priors

The paper introduces PointVGGT, a zero‑shot framework for multiview RGB‑D point cloud registration that replaces the traditional pairwise‑then‑global pipeline. It employs a foundation‑then‑refinement paradigm, using visual geometry foundation models to directly recover metrically consistent global poses and then refining them with voxelized spatial hashing and IRLS‑based bundle adjustment. Experiments on indoor, object‑centric, and outdoor datasets demonstrate superior registration accuracy and computational efficiency without any training.

By Haobo Jiang, Liang Yu, Jianmin Zheng