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Yongjian Zhang, Longguang Wang, Kunhong Li, Ye Zhang, Yun Wang, Liang Lin, Yulan Guo

A new foundation model, PanMatch, unifies dense correspondence matching tasks by reformulating them as a 2D displacement estimation problem. It leverages Large Vision Models and a dedicated feature transformation pipeline to achieve state-of-the-art zero-shot generalization and robust performance across optical flow, stereo, feature matching, and depth estimation benchmarks.

Key insights

• Diverse correspondence tasks can be effectively unified into a single 2D displacement estimation framework, simplifying model architecture and enabling multi-task learning.
• Large Vision Models, primarily used for high-level tasks, provide highly generalizable and domain-invariant features that, when appropriately adapted, significantly boost the robustness and zero-shot performance of low-level matching algorithms.
• Dynamic feature upsampling guided by high-resolution CNN features is crucial for restoring fine details from low-resolution LVM outputs, while a hierarchical adaptation network efficiently fuses multi-scale LVM features for dense prediction.

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