Robust Incremental Structure-from-Motion with Hybrid Features

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Main Authors: Liu, Shaohui, Gao, Yidan, Zhang, Tianyi, Pautrat, Rémi, Schönberger, Johannes L., Larsson, Viktor, Pollefeys, Marc
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author Liu, Shaohui
Gao, Yidan
Zhang, Tianyi
Pautrat, Rémi
Schönberger, Johannes L.
Larsson, Viktor
Pollefeys, Marc
author_facet Liu, Shaohui
Gao, Yidan
Zhang, Tianyi
Pautrat, Rémi
Schönberger, Johannes L.
Larsson, Viktor
Pollefeys, Marc
contents Structure-from-Motion (SfM) has become a ubiquitous tool for camera calibration and scene reconstruction with many downstream applications in computer vision and beyond. While the state-of-the-art SfM pipelines have reached a high level of maturity in well-textured and well-configured scenes over the last decades, they still fall short of robustly solving the SfM problem in challenging scenarios. In particular, weakly textured scenes and poorly constrained configurations oftentimes cause catastrophic failures or large errors for the primarily keypoint-based pipelines. In these scenarios, line segments are often abundant and can offer complementary geometric constraints. Their large spatial extent and typically structured configurations lead to stronger geometric constraints as compared to traditional keypoint-based methods. In this work, we introduce an incremental SfM system that, in addition to points, leverages lines and their structured geometric relations. Our technical contributions span the entire pipeline (mapping, triangulation, registration) and we integrate these into a comprehensive end-to-end SfM system that we share as an open-source software with the community. We also present the first analytical method to propagate uncertainties for 3D optimized lines via sensitivity analysis. Experiments show that our system is consistently more robust and accurate compared to the widely used point-based state of the art in SfM -- achieving richer maps and more precise camera registrations, especially under challenging conditions. In addition, our uncertainty-aware localization module alone is able to consistently improve over the state of the art under both point-alone and hybrid setups.
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spellingShingle Robust Incremental Structure-from-Motion with Hybrid Features
Liu, Shaohui
Gao, Yidan
Zhang, Tianyi
Pautrat, Rémi
Schönberger, Johannes L.
Larsson, Viktor
Pollefeys, Marc
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Structure-from-Motion (SfM) has become a ubiquitous tool for camera calibration and scene reconstruction with many downstream applications in computer vision and beyond. While the state-of-the-art SfM pipelines have reached a high level of maturity in well-textured and well-configured scenes over the last decades, they still fall short of robustly solving the SfM problem in challenging scenarios. In particular, weakly textured scenes and poorly constrained configurations oftentimes cause catastrophic failures or large errors for the primarily keypoint-based pipelines. In these scenarios, line segments are often abundant and can offer complementary geometric constraints. Their large spatial extent and typically structured configurations lead to stronger geometric constraints as compared to traditional keypoint-based methods. In this work, we introduce an incremental SfM system that, in addition to points, leverages lines and their structured geometric relations. Our technical contributions span the entire pipeline (mapping, triangulation, registration) and we integrate these into a comprehensive end-to-end SfM system that we share as an open-source software with the community. We also present the first analytical method to propagate uncertainties for 3D optimized lines via sensitivity analysis. Experiments show that our system is consistently more robust and accurate compared to the widely used point-based state of the art in SfM -- achieving richer maps and more precise camera registrations, especially under challenging conditions. In addition, our uncertainty-aware localization module alone is able to consistently improve over the state of the art under both point-alone and hybrid setups.
title Robust Incremental Structure-from-Motion with Hybrid Features
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.19811