DVGT: Driving Visual Geometry Transformer
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Abstract (arXiv)
Perceiving and reconstructing 3D scene geometry from visual inputs is crucial for autonomous driving. However, there still lacks a driving-targeted dense geometry perception model that can adapt to different scenarios and camera configurations. To bridge this gap, we propose a Driving Visual Geometry Transformer (DVGT), which reconstructs a global dense 3D point map from a sequence of unposed multi-view visual inputs. We first extract visual features for each image using a DINO backbone, and employ alternating intra-view local attention, cross-view spatial attention, and cross-frame temporal attention to infer geometric relations across images. We then use multiple heads to decode a global point map in the ego coordinate of the first frame and the ego poses for each frame. Unlike conventional methods that rely on precise camera parameters, DVGT is free of explicit 3D geometric priors, enabling flexible processing of arbitrary camera configurations. DVGT directly predicts metric-scaled geometry from image sequences, eliminating the need for post-alignment with external sensors. Trained on a large mixture of driving datasets including nuScenes, OpenScene, Waymo, KITTI, and DDAD, DVGT significantly outperforms existing models on various scenarios. Code is available at https://github.com/wzzheng/DVGT.
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- 2026DVGT-2: Vision-Geometry-Action Model for Autonomous Driving at Scalecited by 13
- 2026Xiaomi OneVL: One-Step Latent Reasoning and Planning with Vision-Language Explanationcited by 10
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- 2026Good Token Hunting: A Hitchhiker's Guide to Token Selection for Visual Geometry Transformers22 May 2026
- 2026IVGT: Implicit Visual Geometry Transformer for Neural Scene Representation15 May 2026
- 2026Xiaomi OneVL: One-Step Latent Reasoning and Planning with Vision-Language Explanation20 Apr 2026
- 2026DVGT-2: Vision-Geometry-Action Model for Autonomous Driving at Scale1 Apr 2026
- 2026VG3S: Visual Geometry Grounded Gaussian Splatting for Semantic Occupancy Prediction6 Mar 2026
- 2026FlexMap: Robust HD Map Construction under Flexible Camera Configurations29 Jan 2026
- 2026Xiaomi OneVL: One-Step Latent Reasoning and Planning with Vision-Language Explanationcited by 10
- 2026GeoWAM: Visual Geometry World Action Models for Autonomous Drivingcited by 3
- 2026Unified Driving Tokens: Representation- and Geometry-Guided Discrete Tokenizer for Driving World Models and Planningcited by 1
- 2026GaussianDWM++: Language-Grounded 3D Gaussian Driving World Model for Unified Scene Understanding, Editing, and Multi-Modal Generationcited by 0
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- 2026PhysWAM: Physically Consistent World Action Model for Autonomous Driving29 Sep 2026
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- 2026GaussianDWM++: Language-Grounded 3D Gaussian Driving World Model for Unified Scene Understanding, Editing, and Multi-Modal Generation17 Aug 2026
- 2026Unified Driving Tokens: Representation- and Geometry-Guided Discrete Tokenizer for Driving World Models and Planning1 Jun 2026
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- 2026SM4RT: Learning Structured Motion Geometry for 4D Reconstructioncited by 5
- 2026FlexMap: Robust HD Map Construction under Flexible Camera Configurationscited by 2
- 2026Geometry-Grounded Unified 3D Perception for Autonomous Drivingcited by 2
- 2026IVGT: Implicit Visual Geometry Transformer for Neural Scene Representationcited by 1
- 2026SurroundNEXO: Ego-Centric Metric Bridging for Spatially Consistent Geometry in Autonomous Drivingcited by 1
- 2026Good Token Hunting: A Hitchhiker's Guide to Token Selection for Visual Geometry Transformerscited by 0
- 2026FRUC: Feedforward Dynamic Scene Reconstruction from Uncalibrated Collaborative Driving Viewscited by 0
- 2026LiAuto-GeoX: Efficient Grounded Driving Transformercited by 0
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- 2026Good Token Hunting: A Hitchhiker's Guide to Token Selection for Visual Geometry Transformers22 May 2026
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