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Honggyu An, Jinhyeon Kim, Seonghoon Park, Jaewoo Jung, Jisang Han, Sunghwan Hong, Seungryong Kim

Research from KAIST, Korea University, and Samsung Electronics identified that the cross-attention maps within cross-view completion (CVC) models inherently capture precise dense geometric correspondences. Directly leveraging these maps enabled state-of-the-art zero-shot performance in dense matching and improved robustness in multi-frame depth estimation, outperforming prior methods.

Key insights

  • The cross-attention map within cross-view completion (CVC) models inherently functions as a learned 'full cost volume' that captures precise dense geometric correspondences.
  • Directly leveraging this cross-attention map, rather than relying on encoder or decoder features, enables superior zero-shot performance for geometric matching tasks.
  • The learned cross-attention cost volume offers enhanced robustness to dynamic objects and image noise in multi-frame depth estimation compared to methods based on epipolar geometry.

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