Diversity-aware View Partitioning for Scalable VGGT
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Geometry transformers such as VGGT achieve strong performance by jointly reasoning over multiple views with global attention. However, scaling them to large view collections remains challenging due to the quadratic cost of attention. Moreover, our empirical analysis reveals that the reconstruction quality in VGGT is sensitive to the distribution of viewpoints. Simply increasing the number of views without sufficient viewpoint diversity can even degrade performance, as redundant views introduce highly similar tokens that dilute informative geometric signals in the attention mechanism. Motivated by this observation, we propose a training-free and plug-and-play VGGT inference framework that organizes views into diversity-aware balanced chunks. The chunks are constructed through combinatorial graph partitioning over visual dissimilarity and spatial dispersion. This view organization allows the transformer to focus attention on geometrically informative views while reducing redundant attention interactions. To estimate spatial dispersion without full pose estimation, we approximate spatial relationships via a soft pose propagation strategy based on visual similarity from a small set of seed frames. Extensive experiments demonstrate improved performance in camera pose estimation, multi-view depth prediction, and 3D reconstruction while reducing memory usage and inference latency. Our framework also complements existing VGGT variants, enabling scalable multi-view reconstruction without sacrificing geometric fidelity.
Related benchmarks
| Task | Dataset | Result | Rank | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Camera pose estimation | 7Scenes | AUC@324.86 | 32 | |
| Multi-view Depth Estimation | BONN | Abs Rel4.7 | 18 | |
| Camera pose estimation | NRGBD | AUC @ 3 deg78.87 | 17 | |
| Multi-view 3D Reconstruction | 7Scenes v1 (test) | Chamfer Distance (CD)0.042 | 17 | |
| Multi-view 3D Reconstruction | NRGBD v1 (test) | Chamfer Distance (CD)0.028 | 17 | |
| Multi-view 3D Reconstruction | ScanNet-50 (val) | Accuracy3.4 | 12 | |
| Multi-view 3D Reconstruction | 7Scenes 31 (test) | Chamfer Distance (CD)0.042 | 6 | |
| Multi-view 3D Reconstruction | NRGBD 1 (test) | Chamfer Distance (CD)0.028 | 6 | |
| Multi-view 3D Reconstruction | ScanNet 50 7 (test) | ACC3.2 | 6 | |
| Pose Estimation | TUM RGBD (test) | ATE (cm)3.94 | 4 |