SURE-Map: Self-Correcting Streaming Geometric Foundation Models
cs.CV
Submitted: 2026-09-14
Updated: 2026-09-21
Comments: Corrected a typo in the title; manuscript content unchanged
Project page: https://mingkai-liu.github.io/projects/sure-map
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
The gist: Streaming geometric foundation models are emerging as a compelling alternative to SLAM systems.
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Abstract
Streaming geometric foundation models are emerging as a compelling alternative to SLAM systems. Yet this streaming nature introduces a fundamental issue: each prediction is made from limited context, which is vulnerable to dynamic objects and weak textures. Small local errors accumulate into severe geometric distortion and long-horizon scale drift. We argue that reliable streaming reconstruction requires geometric foundation models to be not only predictive, but also self-correcting. We introduce SURE-Map, a self-correcting framework built upon two complementary principles. First, we explicitly model cross-view geometric uncertainty. Unlike conventional depth or point confidence, which primarily reflects the reliability of individual-view prediction, our uncertainty directly measures whether the jointly predicted pose and depth induce geometrically consistent cross-view pixel correspondences. Second, because local correction alone cannot eliminate slowly accumulating scale errors, we introduce multi-timescale self-correction: fast consecutive-frame inference preserves streaming efficiency, while sparse keyframe-window inference provides longer-range geometric evidence to periodically recalibrate the scale of recent trajectories. SURE-Map establishes new state-of-the-art performance for online feed-forward reconstruction across long-horizon benchmarks, reducing ATE-RMSE from 24.00 to 17.24 m on KITTI, 5.11 to 4.74 m on Oxford Spires, and 31.37 to 28.58 m on VBR, with further improvements to 15.17, 4.63, and 22.12 m when incorporating loop-closure refinement. Project page: https://mingkai-liu.github.io/projects/sure-map/.
Sources
- Depth Anything 3: Recovering the Visual Space from Any Views
- VGGT-SLAM 2.0: Real-time Dense Feed-forward Scene Reconstruction
- LoGeR: Long-Context Geometric Reconstruction with Hybrid Memory
- Scal3R: Scalable Test-Time Training for Large-Scale 3D Reconstruction
- FastVGGT: Training-Free Acceleration of Visual Geometry Transformer
- LongStream: Long-Sequence Streaming Autoregressive Visual Geometry
- Geometric Context Transformer for Streaming 3D Reconstruction
- HorizonStream: Long-Horizon Attention for Streaming 3D Reconstruction
- InfiniteVGGT: Visual Geometry Grounded Transformer for Endless Streams
- DINOv2: Learning Robust Visual Features without Supervision
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