MultiLoc: Look Around As You Localize for Fast And Robust Visual Re-localization

arXiv:2603.27170v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Relative camera pose is a basic geometric cue for visual re-localization and scene understanding. When using images alone, visual evidence may not sufficiently support reliable estimation of 3D-consistent motion. The challenge is especially acute in unfamiliar and ever-changing environments for real-time applications, where a system must infer spatial structure under tight time constraints from what it sees rather than rely on scene-specific reconstruction or training. This raises a fundamental question: how can live 3D camera motion be estimated accurately for re-localization in unseen environments while drawing on enough scene context to resolve pose ambiguity? We introduce MultiLoc, a multi-view-guided relative pose regressor trained at scale to achieve spatial and geometric consistent representations for robust visual re-localization in unseen scenarios with high inference speed. Specifically, MultiLoc creates a minimal 3D-sub-scene representation of the environment and efficiently transforms it into 3D spatially and geometrically consistent features in a single forward pass, enabling precise pose estimates with high inference speed gains. Across diverse indoor, outdoor, and in-the-wild visual re-localization benchmarks---Indoor6, Cambridge Landmarks and WaySpots---MultiLoc consistently outperforms state-of-the-art relative pose regression methods. We also highlight that MultiLoc, a pose regressor, also performs competitively with inference-heavy and structure-based approaches while retaining sub-second inference and generalizing to unseen scenes. Given a small posed support set, it also surpasses relative pose regression, feature-matching, and non-regression methods on several relative camera pose benchmarks. Code will be released.