Feature-Optimized Vision for Adaptive 3D Scene Reconstruction
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| Authors | Eric Liang |
| Year | 2026 |
| Field | Computer Vision |
| arXiv | 2605.31534 |
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| Categories | cs.CV, cs.AI |
Abstract
Three-dimensional scene reconstruction depends on local image evidence that is both visually discriminative and geometrically useful. Fixed feature thresholds and uniform feature budgets are easy to deploy, but they can waste computation on repeated texture, low-parallax regions, or unstable points. This paper proposes an adaptive feature-optimized vision front end for 3D reconstruction. The method scores candidate features by texture, repeatability, distinctiveness, expected triangulation angle, and spatial coverage, then allocates a per-view feature budget to maximize useful tracks under a fixed reconstruction pipeline. A small synthetic multi-view prototype evaluates four selection policies across corridor, facade, object-table, and cluttered scenes. Compared with random, texture-only, and uniform-grid baselines, the adaptive policy obtains the best quality-aware completeness and the lowest aggregate reconstruction RMSE while preserving broad image coverage. The result is not a replacement for modern learned matching or neural reconstruction systems; it is a modular front-end policy that can make classical and learned 3D pipelines more deliberate about which visual evidence they spend compute on.
Engineering Breakdown
The Problem
Fixed feature thresholds and uniform feature budgets are easy to deploy, but they can waste computation on repeated texture, low-parallax regions, or unstable points.
The Approach
This paper proposes an adaptive feature-optimized vision front end for 3D reconstruction.
Key Results
The result is not a replacement for modern learned matching or neural reconstruction systems; it is a modular front-end policy that can make classical and learned 3D pipelines more deliberate about which visual evidence they spend compute on.
Research Areas
This paper contributes to the following areas of AI/ML engineering:
- Image recognition
- Object detection
- Visual transformers
- Convolutional networks
- Multimodal learning
- Featureoptimized
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