Cycle-Sync: Robust Global Camera Pose Estimation through Enhanced Cycle-Consistent Synchronization

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2511.02329v1
• Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2025 07:31:36 GMT
• Title: Cycle-Sync: Robust Global Camera Pose Estimation through Enhanced Cycle-Consistent Synchronization
• Abstract summary: Cycle-Sync is a robust and global framework for estimating camera poses.<n>Our core innovation is a location solver that adapts message-passing least squares (MPLS) to camera location estimation.<n>We establish the strongest known deterministic exact-recovery guarantee for camera location estimation.
• Score: 16.013493467235367
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: We introduce Cycle-Sync, a robust and global framework for estimating camera poses (both rotations and locations). Our core innovation is a location solver that adapts message-passing least squares (MPLS) -- originally developed for group synchronization -- to camera location estimation. We modify MPLS to emphasize cycle-consistent information, redefine cycle consistencies using estimated distances from previous iterations, and incorporate a Welsch-type robust loss. We establish the strongest known deterministic exact-recovery guarantee for camera location estimation, showing that cycle consistency alone -- without access to inter-camera distances -- suffices to achieve the lowest sample complexity currently known. To further enhance robustness, we introduce a plug-and-play outlier rejection module inspired by robust subspace recovery, and we fully integrate cycle consistency into MPLS for rotation synchronization. Our global approach avoids the need for bundle adjustment. Experiments on synthetic and real datasets show that Cycle-Sync consistently outperforms leading pose estimators, including full structure-from-motion pipelines with bundle adjustment.

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