Please add the GIM image matching method

[ssheorey]

The GIM image matching method retrains DKM, LoFTR and SuperGlue image matching methods with higher accuracy. here is the ICLR2024 spotlight paper:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.11095

[protoism]

@sarlinpe @Phil26AT I would really like this too for a current project I'm working on. Can we expect this soon? It would be a huge improvement!

[sarlinpe]

You’re welcome contribute this with a PR.

[ssheorey]

I think a PR should be straightforward, since GIM only uses different weights trained on a lot more data. The model architectures / inference code is the same as DKM / SG.

https://github.com/xuelunshen/gim

[xuelunshen]

@sarlinpe Thank you for releasing hloc. It is really an easy-to-use and powerful project. @ssheorey @protoism Thank you for your attention and interest of gim. I will submit a PR later to integrate the model trained on gim into hloc. Please be patient and wait a little longer.

[sarlinpe]

Great, thank you!

[xuelunshen]

My pleasure! I'm appreciate you maintaining such a useful project.

[gaetan-landreau]

Any release date planned regarding such PR ? 🫣

[xuelunshen]

@ssheorey @protoism @gaetan-landreau In order to release code as soon as possible, we have directly released the 3D reconstruction code based on hloc in the gim repository. Thank you for your waiting and attention.