The Who's Who of AI

“Glob3R: Global Structure-from-Motion with 3D Foundation Models Junyuan Deng et 9 al. tl;dr: finetune Pi3 matching head in RoMav2 style, use SALAD to sort seqs, do Glomap-like global SfM arxiv.org/abs/2607.09225”

“Introducing Glob3R, a novel framework that enhances 3D reconstruction by optimizing foundation model predictions, enabling accurate global motion averaging and efficient scene recovery. This method outperforms traditional techniques, providing high-fidelity…”

“AeroMap3D: Anchoring Monocular UAV 6-DoF Localization to Visual-Geometric-Semantic Map Priors Zhiyun Deng, Luis Sentis tl;dr: synthetic data FTW, tiny RoMa is surprisingly good for UAV-Satellite. arxiv.org/abs/2607.14009”

“CSS-BA: Gate-Guided Column Space Search for Bundle Adjustment Ayano Kaneda, Takafumi Taketomi, Shugo Yamaguchi, Shigeo Morishima tl;dr: solve top-k cameras on low-dim basis -> avoid collapse with weak constraints arxiv.org/abs/2607.15652”

“Argus: Metric Panoramic 3D Reconstruction for Indoor Scenes Xi Li, Linyuan Li, Yan Wu, Tong Rao, Kai Zhang, Xinchen Hui, Cihui Pan tl;dr: panoramas for indoor, and covisibility transformer to select reference frame prior -- important for indoor VGGT. arxiv.…”