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## Change Import relative-rotation covariance estimation and the corrected resized input frame for FlexGlue keypoints. The merge is clean; retain the fork's default-off optimistic scoring and both triangulation and covariance test registrations. ## Upstream commits - `8653c6bd14d159f4f8bdf99bb220a7f54d4101b4` Estimate two-view relative rotation covariance (colmap#4950) - `e1317ddd0e23abf70e2ad26e58139afb55bf9eac` FlexGlue: match keypoints in the resized descriptor input frame (colmap#4949) ## Validation Private integration preview and source checks passed. Native C++ and Python qualification remain pending; no covariance calibration or pipeline claim. AI-assisted integration.
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## Summary Stores optional relative-rotation covariances on `PoseGraph::Edge` and estimates them in parallel from a `DatabaseCache`: - Adds `std::optional<Eigen::Matrix3f> cam2_from_cam1_rotation_cov` to `PoseGraph::Edge` (single precision to keep edges lightweight), expressed in camera 1's local tangent frame. `PoseGraph::Edge::Invert()` conjugates it accordingly. - Adds `EstimatePoseGraphRotationCovariances`, which populates `cam2_from_cam1_rotation_cov` in parallel over all valid pose graph edges that do not already have one, evaluated at each edge's relative pose from its correspondence-graph inliers. Edges whose covariance cannot be estimated are left unset. The database schema does not change. - Adds pycolmap bindings: `PoseGraphEdge.cam2_from_cam1_rotation_cov` and `estimate_pose_graph_rotation_covariances`. ## Tests - `PoseGraph.InvertEdgeCovariance`: checks covariance conjugation and round-trip under `Edge::Invert()`. - `EstimatePoseGraphRotationCovariances.Nominal`, plus single-precision inversion positive-definiteness in `EstimateTwoViewRotationCovariance.UnconstrainedAxisIsCapped` and option validation in `TwoViewRotationCovarianceOptions.Check`. - Python binding tests in `pose_graph_test.py` and `two_view_rotation_covariance_test.py`. PR stack (2/5 splitting #4823, plus #4912): 1. #4950 2. **#4951** (this PR) 3. #4952 4. #4953 5. #4823 6. #4912
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## Summary Supports whitening relative-rotation residuals in `CeresRotationAverager` for both fixed-size camera pairs and dynamic multi-sensor rig blocks: - Adds `DynamicCovarianceWeightedCostFunction<kNumResiduals>` in `estimators/cost_functions/utils.h`, the runtime parameter-block counterpart of `CovarianceWeightedCostFunction` reusing `internal::ComputeLeftSqrtInformation`. - Documents the right-perturbation convention of `RelativeRotationCostFunctor` (`hat_sensor2_from_sensor1 = sensor2_from_sensor1_prior * Exp(r)`). - Adds an optional `cam2_from_cam1_cov` argument to `CeresRotationAverager::AddRelativeRotationResidual` (and `CeresRotationAverager.add_relative_rotation_residual` in pycolmap) to whiten individual relative-rotation residuals with `DynamicCovarianceWeightedCostFunction<3>`. ## Tests - `DynamicCovarianceWeightedCostFunction.MatchesCovarianceWeighted` and `CovarianceWeightedCostFunction.RejectsNonPositiveDefiniteCovariance` in `estimators/cost_functions/utils_test.cc`. - `CeresRotationAverager.WhitensAddedRelativeRotationResidual` in `rotation_averaging_ceres_test.cc` (both fixed 2-block frames and dynamic rig sensors). - Python binding test in `src/pycolmap/estimators/rotation_averaging_ceres_test.py`. PR stack (3/5 splitting #4823, plus #4912): 1. #4950 2. #4951 3. **#4952** (this PR) 4. #4953 5. #4823 6. #4912
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## Change Import relative-rotation covariance estimation and the corrected resized input frame for FlexGlue keypoints. The merge is clean; retain the fork's default-off optimistic scoring and both triangulation and covariance test registrations. ## Upstream commits - `8653c6bd14d159f4f8bdf99bb220a7f54d4101b4` Estimate two-view relative rotation covariance (colmap#4950) - `e1317ddd0e23abf70e2ad26e58139afb55bf9eac` FlexGlue: match keypoints in the resized descriptor input frame (colmap#4949) ## Validation Private integration preview and source checks passed. Native C++ and Python qualification remain pending; no covariance calibration or pipeline claim. AI-assisted integration.
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Refresh the experimental alternative with fork main while retaining its previous head as a parent. The resulting tree is exactly main plus the isolated shared-current-cost-cache deletion: one CUDA file, +1/-25. ## Change Read the existing cost map directly during the ordered sampled-cost fold. Preserve current plane propagation, source packing, scheduling and fallback mathematics. The cache originates in custom a37c1c3, MVS: Reuse sampled current costs (GPU perf). The earlier alternative is retained through 8481f89; its original experiment was 8b1412f. Historical Fountain11 photo+geometry at 3072 recorded 76.85 -> 78.82 seconds, one observation per arm, on the older revision. Retain this inconclusive/adverse observation with its earlier revision; current performance has not been measured. No performance experiment was reopened. ## Validation - Exact candidate CUDA owner compiled with CUDA 13.2 for compute_86/sm_86. In a bounded retained-support context on RTX 3060, both matched targets passed all 13 selected cases: propagation, ordered source folding, checkpoint-HMM and paired-sweep preservation. - Four complete inputs and four outputs matched across executables: 8,492,128 bytes per arm. Maps were finite with positive depth and checked ordered graph IDs. Complete witnesses use checkpoint_hmm=false; separate checkpoint tests cover both settings without full cross-executable true-mode witnesses. - Direct owners, link maps and actual loaded providers were checked; managed jobs ended and released their bookings. Later host resize/warp changes have separate owner qualification. This is not a whole-branch build, reconstruction-quality, portability or current-performance result. ## Upstream commits carried forward - e52aa8e Move pycolmap macOS CI from macos-14 to macos-15 runner (colmap#4933) - 8007d1a Preserve float weight ordering in maximum spanning trees (colmap#4928) - dd84102 Bump pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish from 1.14.2 to 1.14.3 in /.github/workflows (colmap#4942) - 721e185 Add FlexGlue feature matcher (colmap#4908) - d0a411f FlexGlue: cache the dense features on the GPU (colmap#4915) - 105817b Hoist camera model dispatch per row in image warps (colmap#4935) - 27ffad4 Make benchmark translation-angle errors invariant to reconstruction scale (colmap#4932) - e8f3522 Resolve benchmark paths before changing subprocess directories (colmap#4931) - f664d5d Clamp visibility coordinates before unsigned conversion (colmap#4943) - 138119b Keep thin bitmap thumbnails nonempty (colmap#4927) - b16ed5f Count rig frame covisibility once per 3D point (colmap#4893) - 93dbbcb Add colmap-review agent skill for code review (colmap#4934) - 2a6f695 Fix sift_test build on MSVC without the GUI (colmap#4955) - 78cc729 Fix default prior_position_loss_scale to sqrt(chi2_95_3dof) (colmap#4936) - 8653c6b Estimate two-view relative rotation covariance (colmap#4950) - e1317dd FlexGlue: match keypoints in the resized descriptor input frame (colmap#4949) - 3db6eb0 Extract ConvertPosePriorsToENU and skip pose priors without position (colmap#4937) - 77cbe48 Store and estimate rotation covariances on PoseGraph (colmap#4951) - 30a1a81 Support covariance whitening in CeresRotationAverager (colmap#4952) - e6644e7 Fix -Wunused-result warning in ThreadPool::AddTask (colmap#4958) - 5b6da88 Clear descriptor-index results for empty queries (colmap#4960) - d1d92d9 Add COVARIANCE reweighting for Ceres rotation averaging (colmap#4953) - 761d90d Enable covariance-weighted rotation averaging in global pipelines (colmap#4823) - fdee2e1 Reuse the pose graph of GlobalPipeline in the component mappers (colmap#4912) AI disclosure: Totally vibe coded
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Summary
Estimates the 3×3 marginal covariance of a two-view relative rotation from its inlier correspondences:
EstimateTwoViewRotationCovarianceevaluates the Jacobiangeometry.inlier_matchesw.r.t. the right perturbationwhere the translation direction is marginalized with the Schur complement and$\sigma$ is the 2D observation noise (
point2D_stddev_px, 1 px by default).max_rotation_sigma_deg(60°), with a1e-5relative variance floor so single-precision storage preserves positive-definiteness. Returnsstd::nulloptif the relative pose is missing, has too few valid inliers, or if the eigendecomposition of the information fails.RelativeRotationCostFunctor.ExtractMatchedCamRaysWithJacinestimators/two_view_geometry.h.TwoViewRotationCovarianceOptionsandestimate_two_view_rotation_covariance.Tests
TwoViewRotationCovarianceTests.MonteCarloCalibration: 1000-trial Monte Carlo NEES (TwoViewRotationCovarianceOptions.Check,EstimateTwoViewRotationCovariance.Nominal,UnconstrainedAxisIsCapped, andMissingPoseOrTooFewInliers.ExtractMatchedCamRaysWithJac.Nominal.src/pycolmap/estimators/two_view_rotation_covariance_test.py.PR stack (1/5 splitting #4823, plus #4912):