RoMa-Ω: Swapping RoMa v2's DINOv3 Backbone for VGGT-Ω Sets New Image Matching SOTA
kwangmoo_yi · x · 2026-09-11
Researchers from Chalmers and collaborators released RoMa-Ω (ECCVW 2026), probing what feed-forward 3D models know about image matching.
- The change is minimal: replace RoMa v2's DINOv3 backbone with VGGT-Ω features and retrain.
- The result outperforms RoMa and RoMa v2 across many benchmarks, achieving state-of-the-art matching — notably beating RoMa on the difficult WxBS and HardMatch benchmarks where RoMa v2 fell short.
- The model remains a slow but powerful dense matcher; code and paper are available on GitHub.
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