cs.CVOct 8, 2026

MIRAGE: Metric Inference and Reliability-Aware Gaussian Estimation from Feed-Forward Vision

Authors: Xinzhe Wang, Changjian Jiang, Kaiwen Song, Xudong Li, Kerui Ren, Ran Yi, Lizhuang Ma, Chunhua Shen, +3 more

Organizations: Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory · The University of Hong Kong · University of Science and Technology of China · Fudan University · Zhejiang University · The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Abstract

Feed-forward 3D priors enable high-quality reconstruction from image streams but often lack reliable metric scale and suffer from long-term trajectory drift. In contrast, LiDAR--inertial estimation provides metrically accurate motion but lacks the image-space consistency needed for high-fidelity reconstruction. We propose MIRAGEMIRAGE, which anchors feed-forward visual geometry to LiDAR--IMU metric motion and regulates online pose corrections according to correspondence support and cross-modal agreement, jointly enabling accurate metric pose estimation and high-fidelity Gaussian reconstruction. Experiments on Oxford Spires, M2DGR and INS show that MIRAGE achieves accurate metric trajectory estimation, outperforming COLMAP, a widely used but computationally expensive reference for vision-only benchmarks. Motivated by the scarcity of long-horizon monocular benchmarks for large-scale indoor reconstruction, we further build a multimodal data-collection platform and use MIRAGE to establish accurate 6-DoF reference trajectories for a new vision-only benchmark. We benchmark recent monocular large-scale reconstruction methods on this dataset, providing a systematic evaluation of their performance in long-horizon indoor scenes.

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