Zhenjun Zhao
ericzzj.bsky.social
Zhenjun Zhao
@ericzzj.bsky.social
ericzzj1989.github.io
PhD from CUHK. 3D vision, SLAM, SfM, Image Matching (https://github.com/ericzzj1989/Awesome-Image-Matching).
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🎉 Thrilled to share our ICLR 2026 paper:

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Neural Predictor-Corrector: Solving Homotopy Problems with Reinforcement Learning

🚀 The first unified framework that reveals diverse problems share a common predictor-corrector structure

📄 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2602.03086
💻 Code: [Coming soon]

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Reposted by Zhenjun Zhao
RaCo: Ranking and Covariance for Practical Learned Keypoints

Abhiram Shenoi, Philipp Lindenberger @pesarlin.bsky.social @marcpollefeys.bsky.social

tl;dr: ALIKED arch + DaD RL train+full 360rotaug. Det+covariance heads, separate ranker model. No IMC eval
#3DV2026
openreview.net/forum?id=BWt...
February 9, 2026 at 11:51 AM
Reposted by Zhenjun Zhao
Marginalized Bundle Adjustment: Multi-View Camera Pose from Monocular Depth Estimates

Shengjie Zhu, Ahmed Abdelkader, Mark J. Matthews, Xiaoming Liu, Wen-Sheng Chu

tl;dr: BA for monodepth. IMC2021 results!
openreview.net/forum?id=OMT...
February 9, 2026 at 12:40 PM
Understanding and Optimizing Attention-Based Sparse Matching for Diverse Local Features

Qiang Wang

tl;dr: detector matters more, not descriptor! removing nearby keypoints matters! decouple det & desc; fine-tuning detector-agnostic
eval on IMC2021

arxiv.org/abs/2602.08430
February 10, 2026 at 11:35 AM
POPL-KF: A Pose-Only Geometric Representation-Based Kalman Filter for Point-Line-Based Visual-Inertial Odometry

Aiping Wang, Zhaolong Yang, Shuwen Chen, Hai Zhang

tl;dr: pose-only point and line VIO

arxiv.org/abs/2602.06425
February 9, 2026 at 1:11 PM
Efficient-LVSM: Faster, Cheaper, and Better Large View Synthesis Model via Decoupled Co-Refinement Attention

Xiaosong Jia, Yihang Sun, Junqi You, Songbur Wong, Zichen Zou, Junchi Yan, Zuxuan Wu, Yu-Gang Jiang

tl;dr: decouple input view encoding from target view generation

arxiv.org/abs/2602.06478
February 9, 2026 at 1:11 PM
COSMOS: Coherent Supergaussian Modeling with Spatial Priors for Sparse-View 3D Splatting

Chaeyoung Jeong, Kwangsu Kim

tl;dr: Gaussians->supergaussians

arxiv.org/abs/2602.06044
February 9, 2026 at 1:11 PM
Reposted by Zhenjun Zhao
Wid3R: Wide Field-of-View 3D Reconstruction via Camera Model Conditioning

Dongki Jung, Jaehoon Choi, Adil Qureshi, Somi Jeong, Dinesh Manocha, Suyong Yeon
tl;dr: Pi-3 with (ray+radial distance) point map prediction and wide/fisheye camera tokens.
arxiv.org/abs/2602.05321
February 6, 2026 at 11:38 AM
NeVStereo: A NeRF-Driven NVS-Stereo Architecture for High-Fidelity 3D Tasks

Pengcheng Chen, Yue Hu, Wenhao Li, Nicole M Gunderson, Andrew Feng, Zhenglong Sun, Peter Beerel, Eric J Seibel

tl;dr: COLMAP as initialization; ZipNeRF as backbone; DROID-SLAM as pose optimization

arxiv.org/abs/2602.05423
February 6, 2026 at 1:52 PM
QuantumGS: Quantum Encoding Framework for Gaussian Splatting

Grzegorz Wilczyński, Rafał Tobiasz, Paweł Gora, Marcin Mazur, Przemysław Spurek

tl;dr: viewing directions->Bloch sphere encoding->qubit states

arxiv.org/abs/2602.05047
February 6, 2026 at 1:52 PM
Gabor Fields: Orientation-Selective Level-of-Detail for Volume Rendering

@jcondor.bsky.social, Nicolai Hermann, Mehmet Ata Yurtsever, Piotr Didyk

tl;dr: another Gaussian + Gabor work

arxiv.org/abs/2602.05081
February 6, 2026 at 1:51 PM
Wid3R: Wide Field-of-View 3D Reconstruction via Camera Model Conditioning

Dongki Jung, Jaehoon Choi, Adil Qureshi, Somi Jeong, Dinesh Manocha, Suyong Yeon

tl;dr: camera ray->pixel; spherical harmonics encodes ray directions; camera model token->model prior

arxiv.org/abs/2602.05321
February 6, 2026 at 1:49 PM
VGGT-Motion: Motion-Aware Calibration-Free Monocular SLAM for Long-Range Consistency

Zhuang Xiong, Chen Zhang, Qingshan Xu, Wenbing Tao

tl;dr: optical flow->dynamic/static->submap partition; overlaped frames+loop closure->Sim(3) submap alignment

arxiv.org/abs/2602.05508
February 6, 2026 at 1:48 PM
TrajVG: 3D Trajectory-Coupled Visual Geometry Learning

Xingyu Miao, Weiguang Zhao, Tao Lu, Linning Xu, Mulin Yu, Yang Long, Jiangmiao Pang, Junting Dong

tl;dr: 3D tracking->camera-coordinate trajectories; couple trajectories&point maps&relative poses

arxiv.org/abs/2602.04439
February 5, 2026 at 12:55 PM
CoWTracker: Tracking by Warping instead of Correlation

Zihang Lai, Eldar Insafutdinov, Edgar Sucar, Andrea Vedaldi

tl;dr: iterative warping on current estimation,then spatio-temporal transformer refines tracks

arxiv.org/abs/2602.04877
February 5, 2026 at 12:53 PM
Towards Next-Generation SLAM: A Survey on 3DGS-SLAM Focusing on Performance, Robustness, and Future Directions

Li Wang, Ruixuan Gong, Yumo Han, Lei Yang, Lu Yang, Ying Li, Bin Xu, Huaping Liu, Rong Fu

tl;dr: in title

arxiv.org/abs/2602.04251
February 5, 2026 at 12:52 PM
S-MUSt3R: Sliding Multi-view 3D Reconstruction

Leonid Antsfeld, Boris Chidlovskii, Yohann Cabon, @vincentleroy.bsky.social, Jerome Revaud

tl;dr: sliding-window MUSt3R; overlapped input segments->MUSt3R->loop closure->PGO with iterative solver

arxiv.org/abs/2602.04517
February 5, 2026 at 12:52 PM
🎉 Thrilled to share our ICLR 2026 paper:

🔹 NPC
Neural Predictor-Corrector: Solving Homotopy Problems with Reinforcement Learning

🚀 The first unified framework that reveals diverse problems share a common predictor-corrector structure

📄 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2602.03086
💻 Code: [Coming soon]

1/
February 4, 2026 at 4:41 PM
Pi-GS: Sparse-View Gaussian Splatting with Dense π^3 Initialization

Manuel Hofer, Markus Steinberger, Thomas Köhler

tl;dr: in title; π^3+PGSR

arxiv.org/abs/2602.03327
February 4, 2026 at 11:47 AM
Reposted by Zhenjun Zhao
XRefine: Attention-Guided Keypoint Match Refinement

Jan Fabian Schmid, Annika Hagemann

tl;dr: pairwise kpt2subpix with self-attention and study how kpt accuracy influences the camera pose accuracy
arxiv.org/abs/2601.12530
February 3, 2026 at 8:32 AM
Reposted by Zhenjun Zhao
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February 3, 2026 at 8:16 AM
3DGS2-TR: Scalable Second-Order Trust-Region Method for 3D Gaussian Splatting

Roger Hsiao, Yuchen Fang, Xiangru Huang, Ruilong Li, Hesam Rabeti, Zan Gojcic, Javad Lavaei, James Demmel, Sophia Shao

arxiv.org/abs/2602.00395
February 3, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Interacted Planes Reveal 3D Line Mapping

Zeran Ke, Bin Tan, Gui-Song Xia, Yujun Shen, Nan Xue

tl;dr: PlanarSplatting extension; 2D lines<->2.5D depth&normal & 2D line & 3D planar edges association->joint line-plane optimization

arxiv.org/abs/2602.01296
February 3, 2026 at 2:28 PM
SurfSplat: Conquering Feedforward 2D Gaussian Splatting with Surface Continuity Priors

Bing He, Jingnan Gao, Yunuo Chen, Ning Cao, Gang Chen, Zhengxue Cheng, Li Song, Wenjun Zhang

tl;dr: 2DGS+surface continuity prior+forced alpha blending

arxiv.org/abs/2602.02000
February 3, 2026 at 2:28 PM
UrbanGS: A Scalable and Efficient Architecture for Geometrically Accurate Large-Scene Reconstruction

Changbai Li, Haodong Zhu, Hanlin Chen, Xiuping Liang, Tongfei Chen, Shuwei Shao, Linlin Yang, Huobin Tan, Baochang Zhang

arxiv.org/abs/2602.02089
February 3, 2026 at 2:27 PM
Dual Quaternion SE(3) Synchronization with Recovery Guarantees

Jianing Zhao, Linglingzhi Zhu, Anthony Man-Cho So

tl;dr: PGO->LS over unit dual quaternions; Hermitian dual quaternion measurement matrix->eigenvector->init.-> DQGPM->iterative solver

arxiv.org/abs/2602.00324
February 3, 2026 at 2:26 PM