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RIDE: Relocalization-Informed Depth Estimation with 3D Gaussian Splatting

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 10, 2026 · UTC

Render--match--PnP relocalization establishes correspondences between query image pixels and 3D map points for camera pose recovery, but their potential to support dense depth estimation is often overlooked. To exploit this geometric information, we present RIDE, which estimates dense metric depth from a robot's RGB stream. Given a metrically scaled 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) model, RIDE combines sparse metric depth observations derived from PnP-RANSAC inlier correspondences with the geometric prior of a pretrained video-depth model. To handle uneven and intermittent observations, it integra

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