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NaCR: Visual Localization via NeRF-aided Camera Ray Regression

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 22, 2026 · UTC

Visual localization (VL) is a fundamental technology for vision applications such as virtual reality. Recently, a novel VL paradigm, Camera Ray Regression (CRR), has emerged, which maps 2D image patches to 3D camera rays, but its accuracy is limited. To improve CRR accuracy, we notice a compelling duality: the inverse of this mapping is inherently performed by the novel view synthesis model, \ie, Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF). While NeRF renders image patches from camera rays via differentiable ray marching, CRR predicts the rays from image patches. Motivated by this complementary relationship

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