CVPR 2026 Papers

Scene Coordinate Regression (SCR) has emerged as a memory-efficient paradigm for visual localization. While SCR has demonstrated performance comparable to classic feature matching based approaches in small-scale scenes, it has consistently underperformed in large-scale environments. Large-scale localization is hampered by two challenges: sparse co-visibility and local appearance ambiguity. In this work, we propose CoLoR, a novel training framework tailored for large-scale SCR. First, we explicitly and efficiently partition scene points into multi-view and single-view sets and introduce a two-stage bootstrapping paradigm to provide complete and strong supervision for all points. Second, we propose a multi-granularity retrieval feature, which unifies the conventional global and local features as retrieval-oriented representations at the image and pixel levels, respectively, to enforce feature consistency. Our method achieves state-of-the-art performance on multiple challenging large-scale datasets and significantly narrows the accuracy gap with classical feature matching based approaches while retaining a compact map size.

Perspective-aware spatial reasoning involves understanding spatial relationships from specific viewpoints--either egocentric (observer-centered) or allocentric (object-centered).While vision-language models (VLMs) perform well in egocentric settings, their performance deteriorates when reasoning from allocentric viewpoints, where spatial relations must be inferred from the perspective of objects within the scene.In this study, we address this underexplored challenge by introducing Symbolic Projective Layout (SymPL), a framework that reformulates allocentric reasoning into symbolic-layout forms that VLMs inherently handle well.By leveraging four key factors--projection, abstraction, bipartition, and localization--SymPL converts allocentric questions into structured symbolic-layout representations.Extensive experiments demonstrate that this reformulation substantially improves performance in both allocentric and egocentric tasks, enhances robustness under visual illusions and multi-view scenarios, and that each component contributes critically to these gains.These results show that SymPL provides an effective and principled approach for addressing complex perspective-aware spatial reasoning.