SEAR: Simple and Efficient Adaptation of Visual Geometric Transformers for RGB+Thermal 3D Reconstruction

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• SEAR significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods for 3D reconstruction and camera pose estimation with multimodal RGB-T inputs.result 90%
• SEAR delivers higher detail and consistency between RGB and thermal modalities with negligible overhead in inference time compared to the original pretrained model.result 85%
• SEAR enables reliable multimodal pose estimation and reconstruction even under challenging conditions such as low lighting and dense smoke.result 80%
• Visual geometry transformers pretrained on RGB data generalize well to thermal-only reconstruction but struggle to align RGB and thermal modalities when processed jointly.technical 85%
• SEAR is a simple yet efficient fine-tuning strategy that adapts a pretrained geometry transformer to multimodal RGB-T inputs.method 90%
• The approach achieves strong results despite being trained on a relatively small RGB-T dataset.result 80%
• The research introduces a new dataset featuring RGB and thermal sequences captured at different times, viewpoints, and illumination conditions.method 90%
• The approach may require specialized equipment for thermal image capturing, limiting its applicability in common commercial systems.limitation 70%

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