arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 17

GeoCond: A Conditioning-Aware Reliability Adapter for Feed-Forward 3D Reconstruction

GeoCond is a lightweight reliability adapter that enhances frozen feed‑forward 3D reconstruction backbones by reading their predicted geometry to produce pose‑level uncertainty and a refinement gate. It can be trained using permutation‑orbit variance, ground‑truth pose error, or cycle residuals from unlabeled pose graphs, and at inference requires only a single backbone pass plus a small MLP. On the VGGT backbone, GeoCond reduces out‑of‑distribution AUSE from 0.32 to 0.20, transfers zero‑shot to outdoor extreme‑view scenes, and prevents collapse from uniform bundle adjustment, while also enabling gated refinement, pose‑graph weighting, calibration, curation, and capture decisions.

By David Ahmedt-Aristizabal, Mohammad Ali Armin, Russell Tsuchida, Lars Petersson
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 11

A Calibration Audit of Confidence in Feed-Forward 3D Reconstruction Models

The paper audits the confidence outputs of seven feed‑forward 3D reconstruction backbones across 13 datasets, evaluating four properties: error ranking, average error‑to‑uncertainty ratio, slope of this ratio, and coverage of the implied error distribution. While confidence ranks errors well, the decoded uncertainty is consistently too small—off by at least 2.4× on median cases—and worsens with higher confidence. A post‑hoc power‑law fit per backbone‑dataset pair improves all four metrics at the dataset level, reducing the median error by 1.35×, but fails to correct coverage for many held‑out scenes, indicating the models lack the correct error scale and distribution shape.

By Nanxing Nick Deng, Qing Cheng, Niclas Zeller, Daniel Cremers
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 21

Refining Ground Truth Poses in Autonomous Driving Datasets via Neural Rendering

arXiv:2504.15776v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Public autonomous driving datasets underpin the training and benchmarking of perception, mapping, and localization algorithms, yet residual inaccur...

By Quentin Herau, Nathan Piasco, Moussab Bennehar, Luis Rold\~ao, Dzmitry Tsishkou, Bingbing Liu, Cyrille Migniot, Pascal Vasseur, C\'edric Demonceaux