arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 16

Benchmarking Efficient & Effective Camera Pose Estimation Strategies for Novel View Synthesis

The paper introduces a benchmark for evaluating Structure-from-Motion (SfM) methods used in novel view synthesis (NVS) such as NeRFs and 3DGS. It compares classical SfM, which relies on local feature matches and bundle adjustment, with recent neural network approaches that regress camera parameters directly for faster but less accurate results. The study finds that reducing feature counts speeds up classical SfM without sacrificing pose accuracy, and that combining neural network initial estimates with classical refinement yields the best balance of efficiency and effectiveness.

By Jhacson Meza, Martin R. Oswald, Torsten Sattler
arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 5

RYOPO: Bringing End-to-End Category-Level Object Pose Estimation into Real Time

RYOPO is an end‑to‑end query‑based RGB‑D set predictor that jointly detects, segments, and estimates 9‑DoF poses of unseen instances within known categories without relying on external instance segmentation or CAD priors. It uses shared image and scene encoding, a query‑conditioned geometry pathway, and object‑centric refinement with pose‑conditioned cross‑attention to achieve accurate pose estimation. On benchmark datasets such as NOCS, REAL275, and HouseCat6D, RYOPO outperforms published methods and runs in real time at 31.8 FPS on an RTX A6000.

By Hakjin Lee, Junghoon Seo, Jaehoon Sim
arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 8

WAPR: A Foundation Model for Wide-Angle Refinement in Unseen Object Pose Estimation

WAPR is a zero‑shot wide‑angle pose refinement model that can correct candidate 6D poses with rotational errors up to 90°, achieving fast inference (≤1 s per frame) and high throughput (≈25 detections per second). It leverages rotational symmetry priors to canonicalize pose targets and introduces the SA6D dataset, which augments 944 GSO scans into ~50 k object instances and ~2 M RGB‑D images. Experiments on seven BOP core datasets demonstrate that WAPR sets new state‑of‑the‑art performance for unseen‑object pose estimation in both fast and unconstrained settings.

By Yulin Wang, Mengting Hu, Hongli Li, Jianghao Zhou, Chen Luo