CVD-SfM: A Cross-View Deep Front-end Structure-from-Motion System for Sparse Localization in Multi-Altitude Scenes

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01936v1
• Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2025 22:11:48 GMT
• Title: CVD-SfM: A Cross-View Deep Front-end Structure-from-Motion System for Sparse Localization in Multi-Altitude Scenes
• Authors: Yaxuan Li, Yewei Huang, Bijay Gaudel, Hamidreza Jafarnejadsani, Brendan Englot,
• Abstract summary: We present a novel multi-altitude camera pose estimation system, addressing the challenges of robust and accurate localization across varied altitudes.<n>The system effectively handles diverse environmental conditions and viewpoint variations by integrating the cross-view transformer, deep features, and structure-from-motion.
• Score: 0.7623023317942882
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: We present a novel multi-altitude camera pose estimation system, addressing the challenges of robust and accurate localization across varied altitudes when only considering sparse image input. The system effectively handles diverse environmental conditions and viewpoint variations by integrating the cross-view transformer, deep features, and structure-from-motion into a unified framework. To benchmark our method and foster further research, we introduce two newly collected datasets specifically tailored for multi-altitude camera pose estimation; datasets of this nature remain rare in the current literature. The proposed framework has been validated through extensive comparative analyses on these datasets, demonstrating that our system achieves superior performance in both accuracy and robustness for multi-altitude sparse pose estimation tasks compared to existing solutions, making it well suited for real-world robotic applications such as aerial navigation, search and rescue, and automated inspection.

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