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arXiv:2608.03423v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Local feature matching is a fundamental component of photogrammetry, enabling accurate image correspondence critical for tasks such as 3D reconstru...
Local feature matching is a fundamental component of photogrammetry, enabling accurate image correspondence critical for tasks such as 3D reconstruction, stereo mapping, and visual localization. While recent detector-free matching methods, like LoFTR, have advanced the field, the global features obtained by leveraging the global-range modeling capacity of the unconstrained attention mechanism compromise the model's attention to the salient structures in certain scenarios.
The paper introduces Epipolar Distillation (EpiDistill), a method that transfers scale‑aware geometric priors from multi‑view models to monocular depth foundation models using Rectified Stereo Tokens. By preserving epipolar attention patterns, the single‑view model maintains geometric consistency without needing multi‑view inputs during inference. Experiments show significant improvements in zero‑shot metric depth estimation on challenging datasets such as ETH3D and DIODE, and the approach consistently boosts performance of state‑of‑the‑art ViT‑based models like UniDepthV2 and DepthPro.
arXiv:2608.29819v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate stereo matching remains challenging in ill-posed regions such as fine structures, reflective, or transparent objects, where appearance cues ar...
ORSIFlow is a saliency‑guided rectified flow framework for optical remote sensing salient object detection that reframes the task as deterministic latent flow generation. It uses a frozen variational autoencoder to produce saliency masks in a compact latent space, allowing efficient inference with few steps. The method incorporates a Salient Feature Discriminator for global semantic discrimination and a Salient Feature Calibrator for precise boundary refinement, achieving state‑of‑the‑art performance on multiple public benchmarks.
WHTMix replaces the global self‑attention stage in stereo transformers with a data‑independent Walsh‑Hadamard token mixer, achieving the same end‑point error on synthetic driving data while cutting model compute by 2.46× and single‑image inference latency by 2.65×. The log‑linear cost of the mixer is especially advantageous for high‑resolution stereo matching, as shown by a complexity analysis that links benefits to the ratio of sequence length to channel width. Additionally, a hybrid log‑disparity loss is introduced to up‑weight small‑disparity pixels, improving accuracy on distant objects without extra computational cost.