RaCo: Ranking and Covariance for Practical Learned Keypoints

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2602.15755v1
• Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2026 17:39:52 GMT
• Title: RaCo: Ranking and Covariance for Practical Learned Keypoints
• Authors: Abhiram Shenoi, Philipp Lindenberger, Paul-Edouard Sarlin, Marc Pollefeys,
• Abstract summary: RaCo is designed to learn robust and versatile keypoints suitable for a variety of 3D computer vision tasks.<n>RaCo operates without the need for covisible image pairs.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: This paper introduces RaCo, a lightweight neural network designed to learn robust and versatile keypoints suitable for a variety of 3D computer vision tasks. The model integrates three key components: the repeatable keypoint detector, a differentiable ranker to maximize matches with a limited number of keypoints, and a covariance estimator to quantify spatial uncertainty in metric scale. Trained on perspective image crops only, RaCo operates without the need for covisible image pairs. It achieves strong rotational robustness through extensive data augmentation, even without the use of computationally expensive equivariant network architectures. The method is evaluated on several challenging datasets, where it demonstrates state-of-the-art performance in keypoint repeatability and two-view matching, particularly under large in-plane rotations. Ultimately, RaCo provides an effective and simple strategy to independently estimate keypoint ranking and metric covariance without additional labels, detecting interpretable and repeatable interest points. The code is available at https://github.com/cvg/RaCo.

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