Scal3R: Scalable Test-Time Training for Large-Scale 3D Reconstruction

TL;DR

Scal3R introduces a scalable test-time training method with a neural global context for large-scale 3D scene reconstruction from videos, improving accuracy and consistency.

Contribution

The paper proposes a neural global context representation and test-time adaptation technique to enhance large-scale 3D reconstruction from long videos.

Findings

Achieves state-of-the-art accuracy on KITTI and Oxford Spires datasets.

Effectively handles ultra-large scenes with improved global consistency.

Maintains efficiency with minimal computational overhead.

Abstract

This paper addresses the task of large-scale 3D scene reconstruction from long video sequences. Recent feed-forward reconstruction models have shown promising results by directly regressing 3D geometry from RGB images without explicit 3D priors or geometric constraints. However, these methods often struggle to maintain reconstruction accuracy and consistency over long sequences due to limited memory capacity and the inability to effectively capture global contextual cues. In contrast, humans can naturally exploit the global understanding of the scene to inform local perception. Motivated by this, we propose a novel neural global context representation that efficiently compresses and retains long-range scene information, enabling the model to leverage extensive contextual cues for enhanced reconstruction accuracy and consistency. The context representation is realized through a set of lightweight neural sub-networks that are rapidly adapted during test time via self-supervised objectives, which substantially increases memory capacity without incurring significant computational overhead. The experiments on multiple large-scale benchmarks, including the KITTI Odometry~\cite{Geiger2012CVPR} and Oxford Spires~\cite{tao2025spires} datasets, demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach in handling ultra-large scenes, achieving leading pose accuracy and state-of-the-art 3D reconstruction accuracy while maintaining efficiency. Code is available at https://zju3dv.github.io/scal3r.