Grounding Image Matching in 3D with MASt3R

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2406.09756v1
• Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2024 06:46:30 GMT
• Title: Grounding Image Matching in 3D with MASt3R
• Authors: Vincent Leroy, Yohann Cabon, Jérôme Revaud,
• Abstract summary: We propose to cast matching as a 3D task with DUSt3R, a powerful 3D reconstruction framework based on Transformers. We propose to augment the DUSt3R network with a new head that outputs dense local features, trained with an additional matching loss. Our approach, coined MASt3R, significantly outperforms the state of the art on multiple matching tasks.
• Score: 8.14650201701567
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Image Matching is a core component of all best-performing algorithms and pipelines in 3D vision. Yet despite matching being fundamentally a 3D problem, intrinsically linked to camera pose and scene geometry, it is typically treated as a 2D problem. This makes sense as the goal of matching is to establish correspondences between 2D pixel fields, but also seems like a potentially hazardous choice. In this work, we take a different stance and propose to cast matching as a 3D task with DUSt3R, a recent and powerful 3D reconstruction framework based on Transformers. Based on pointmaps regression, this method displayed impressive robustness in matching views with extreme viewpoint changes, yet with limited accuracy. We aim here to improve the matching capabilities of such an approach while preserving its robustness. We thus propose to augment the DUSt3R network with a new head that outputs dense local features, trained with an additional matching loss. We further address the issue of quadratic complexity of dense matching, which becomes prohibitively slow for downstream applications if not carefully treated. We introduce a fast reciprocal matching scheme that not only accelerates matching by orders of magnitude, but also comes with theoretical guarantees and, lastly, yields improved results. Extensive experiments show that our approach, coined MASt3R, significantly outperforms the state of the art on multiple matching tasks. In particular, it beats the best published methods by 30% (absolute improvement) in VCRE AUC on the extremely challenging Map-free localization dataset.

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