SCARF-SLAM: SCALE-CONSISTENT RECONSTRUCTION WITH FEED-FORWARD MODELS AND CLASSICAL VISUAL SLAM

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ScaRF-SLAM is a dense visual mapping system that pairs the reliability of classical visual SLAM with modern feed-forward geometric foundation models for 3D scene reconstruction. By decoupling camera tracking from dense depth estimation and optimizing scale consistency across submaps, it achieves globally accurate 3D maps across diverse sensor configurations. For perception engineers and autonomy developers, this framework provides a practical way to produce metric-scale environmental maps in real time without sacrificing tracking stability.