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Zizun Li, Jianjun Zhou, Yifan Wang, Haoyu Guo, Wenzheng Chang, Yang Zhou, Haoyi Zhu, Junyi Chen and 2 more

WinT3R presents a transformer-based model for online, real-time 3D reconstruction that generates high-quality dense point maps and precise camera poses from continuous image streams. It achieves state-of-the-art accuracy and speed by integrating an online sliding-window mechanism for local interaction with a compact camera token pool for efficient global context.

Key insights

  • Leveraging strong temporal correlations by allowing direct interaction between image tokens of adjacent frames within a sliding window significantly improves local geometric predictions.
  • Global context is critical for robust camera pose estimation over long sequences, and this can be efficiently maintained using compact, low-dimensional camera tokens.
  • An overlapping stride for the sliding window ensures continuity and allows predictions to be refined by subsequent frames, enhancing overall reconstruction quality.

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