arxiv: 2604.04931 · v1 · submitted 2026-04-06 · 💻 cs.CV

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LoMa: Local Feature Matching Revisited

David Nordstr\"om , Johan Edstedt , Georg B\"okman , Jonathan Astermark , Anders Heyden , Viktor Larsson , M{\aa}rten Wadenb\"ack , Michael Felsberg

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keywords local feature matchingHardMatch datasetdata scalingStructure-from-Motionimage matchingwide-baseline stereocomputer vision

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Scaling data mixtures, model capacity, and compute revives progress in local feature matching on hard image pairs.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

Local feature matching remains essential for Structure-from-Motion and other 3D vision tasks, but unlike many data-driven methods it has continued to rely on small, mid-sized training sets. The paper establishes that mixing large and diverse datasets, applying modern training recipes, increasing model size, and using more compute together produce clear performance lifts. Because most existing benchmarks draw only from successful sparse reconstructions, they have become too easy and saturated. To measure real progress the authors introduce HardMatch, a set of 1000 difficult internet image pairs whose correspondences were manually annotated. If the central claim holds, reliable local matching would become available for scenes that previously defeated standard pipelines.

Core claim

Local feature matching models benefit from the same kind of scaling that has driven advances elsewhere: large and diverse data mixtures combined with increased model capacity and compute yield substantially stronger matching accuracy, demonstrated across both established benchmarks and a new collection of hard image pairs.

What carries the argument

The LoMa training recipe that scales data diversity, model capacity, and compute for local feature descriptors and matchers.

If this is right

Local feature matching becomes more reliable on image pairs that lie outside the distribution of successful 3D reconstructions.
Standard benchmarks for wide-baseline stereo, indoor localization, and image matching register higher accuracy once models are scaled.
Released models and code allow direct integration into existing Structure-from-Motion systems.
Evaluation of future matching methods will need to include explicitly hard pairs rather than only easy reconstruction-derived ones.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

The same scaling recipe could be tested on related low-level tasks such as keypoint detection or descriptor learning to check for similar lifts.
End-to-end runs of full SfM pipelines using LoMa would reveal whether the isolated matching gains translate into measurably better 3D models.
The manual annotation approach used for HardMatch could be extended to create larger, publicly shared hard-pair collections for other vision domains.

Load-bearing premise

The manually annotated ground-truth correspondences in HardMatch are accurate and unbiased, and the observed gains are caused by the described scaling rather than unstated implementation choices.

What would settle it

An independent re-annotation or verification of the HardMatch correspondences that reveals systematic errors, or a controlled experiment in which competing methods receive identical data scaling and still match LoMa performance.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2604.04931 by Anders Heyden, David Nordstr\"om, Fredrik Kahl, Georg B\"okman, Johan Edstedt, Jonathan Astermark, M{\aa}rten Wadenb\"ack, Michael Felsberg, Viktor Larsson.

**Figure 1.** Figure 1: Revisiting local feature matching. We introduce HardMatch, a challenging hand-annotated matching benchmark, and LoMa, a fast and accurate family of local feature-based models. (a) LoMa successfully matches pairs from HardMatch where LightGlue fails, (b) HardMatch is significantly harder than previous benchmarks. and DeDoDe [16], and for sparse matching with models such as SuperGlue [46] and LightGlue [32].… view at source ↗

**Figure 2.** Figure 2: The LoMa pipeline. By replacing ALIKED [68] with DaD [17]+DeDoDe [16] and training the descriptor and matcher on a large collection of datasets we achieve SotA results, even surpassing dense matchers on some tasks (e.g. HardMatch). first keypoints x A i and x B j are detected in the images, second the keypoints are assigned descriptions f A i and f B j , and third the descriptions are matched between the t… view at source ↗

**Figure 3.** Figure 3: HardMatch groups. The dataset contains image pairs from a wide range of challenging scenarios, organized into 9 groups. (a) Example pairs illustrating each group. (b) HardMatch mAA@10px performance per group. call HardMatch, consists of 1000 image pairs from all over the world. We illustrate the geographic and temporal distribution in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_3.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 4.** Figure 4: HardMatch accuracy at different thresholds. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_4.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 5.** Figure 5: Pareto curve. HardMatch performance as a function of inference speed (A100) for different stopping layers. 2K 4K 10K 22K 44K Training Steps 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Loss MegaDepth All Data (a) Data scale. 128 256 512 1024 Embed Dimension 4.5 5 5.5 6 Loss B L G (b) Model capacity [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p014_5.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 6.** Figure 6: Increased data scale and model capacity. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p014_6.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 7.** Figure 7: WxBS accuracy at different thresholds [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p021_7.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 8.** Figure 8: Descriptor scaling (a) and pareto curve for batch size of 1 (b). A.8 Inference Speed for a Single Image Pair In the main paper, we evaluate the speed using a batch size of 16. In many applications, inference will run with a single image pair at a time (batch size of 1). In Fig. 8b, we show the speed for our different model sizes for different stopping layers L = {3, 5, 9}. B Details on Evaluation For all L… view at source ↗

**Figure 9.** Figure 9: HardMatch statistics. The dataset consists of images taken from all over the world and from over a century apart. The highest concentration is geographically in Europe and temporally in the 21st century [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p024_9.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 10.** Figure 10: Hard groups of HardMatch. For hard Doppelgängers in HardMatch, all the matchers fail [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p025_10.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 11.** Figure 11: LoMa-G matches from HardMatch. Inliers at 5px threshold for MAGSAC [6, 7] colored green while outliers are colored red [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p026_11.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 12.** Figure 12: HardMatch categories from easy to hard. We plot the PCK@10px of LoMa for different categories in the test set [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p028_12.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 13.** Figure 13: Refining matches through depth. The descriptor fails to match the pair (L = 0) but as the features are passed through the layers of the matcher, the pair gradually becomes matchable [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p029_13.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 14.** Figure 14: Visualization of training batch. We visualize a random training batch of 32 image pairs to highlight the diversity in our training data [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p030_14.png] view at source ↗

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Local feature matching has long been a fundamental component of 3D vision systems such as Structure-from-Motion (SfM), yet progress has lagged behind the rapid advances of modern data-driven approaches. The newer approaches, such as feed-forward reconstruction models, have benefited extensively from scaling dataset sizes, whereas local feature matching models are still only trained on a few mid-sized datasets. In this paper, we revisit local feature matching from a data-driven perspective. In our approach, which we call LoMa, we combine large and diverse data mixtures, modern training recipes, scaled model capacity, and scaled compute, resulting in remarkable gains in performance. Since current standard benchmarks mainly rely on collecting sparse views from successful 3D reconstructions, the evaluation of progress in feature matching has been limited to relatively easy image pairs. To address the resulting saturation of benchmarks, we collect 1000 highly challenging image pairs from internet data into a new dataset called HardMatch. Ground truth correspondences for HardMatch are obtained via manual annotation by the authors. In our extensive benchmarking suite, we find that LoMa makes outstanding progress across the board, outperforming the state-of-the-art method ALIKED+LightGlue by +18.6 mAA on HardMatch, +29.5 mAA on WxBS, +21.4 (1m, 10$^\circ$) on InLoc, +24.2 AUC on RUBIK, and +12.4 mAA on IMC 2022. We release our code and models publicly at https://github.com/davnords/LoMa.

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LoMa gets solid gains from scaling local feature matching training but the HardMatch results depend on author-only manual annotations that lack quality checks.

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The main point is that this paper shows scaling data mixtures, model size, and compute actually moves the needle on local feature matching, which had been stuck on smaller datasets. They report consistent improvements over ALIKED+LightGlue across several benchmarks, and they release the code and models, which makes the work usable right away. The new HardMatch set of 1000 difficult pairs is a reasonable attempt to escape the saturation on easy SfM-derived test pairs. That combination of scaled training plus a harder benchmark is the concrete advance here. The standard benchmarks like InLoc, IMC 2022, and WxBS give a clearer picture of progress because those are established and less likely to be tuned to one method. The gains there look large enough to matter for downstream SfM and localization pipelines. The soft spot is the HardMatch evaluation. All ground truth comes from manual annotation by the authors on internet-sourced hard pairs, with no inter-annotator agreement numbers or cross-checks against automatic pipelines mentioned. Manual labeling on extreme viewpoint and illumination cases is noisy by nature, and author-only annotation raises the possibility of systematic bias toward their own outputs. Until those details are provided, the +18.6 mAA jump on HardMatch is harder to attribute cleanly to the scaling recipe rather than annotation artifacts. The abstract also skips ablations and training specifics, so it is difficult to judge how much of the lift comes from data scale versus other implementation choices. This paper is aimed at people who build or use local feature matchers in robotics, AR, or mapping and want better performance on challenging pairs. A practitioner or researcher working on empirical improvements in 3D vision would find the benchmark numbers and public models useful. It deserves a serious referee because the core scaling claim is testable and the reported lifts are large enough to be worth checking, even if the HardMatch part needs more scrutiny on data quality.

Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper introduces LoMa, a local feature matching approach that scales data mixtures, model capacity, training recipes, and compute to achieve large gains over prior SOTA (ALIKED+LightGlue) on multiple benchmarks: +18.6 mAA on a new HardMatch dataset of 1000 challenging pairs, +29.5 mAA on WxBS, +21.4 (1m, 10°) on InLoc, +24.2 AUC on RUBIK, and +12.4 mAA on IMC 2022. HardMatch ground truth is obtained via manual author annotation; code and models are released publicly.

Significance. If the gains are robust and attributable to scaling, the work shows that local feature matching can follow the scaling trends seen in other vision tasks, with potential benefits for SfM and 3D reconstruction pipelines. The HardMatch benchmark addresses saturation on easier existing datasets. Public code release is a clear strength for reproducibility.

major comments (2)

[§4] §4 (HardMatch dataset construction): Ground-truth correspondences are produced exclusively by manual annotation from the authors on 1000 internet-sourced difficult pairs. No inter-annotator agreement statistics, annotation protocol details, or cross-validation against independent automatic pipelines are reported. Because the headline result (+18.6 mAA) and the claim of progress on challenging pairs rest on this dataset, the absence of validation leaves the attribution of gains insecure.
[§5] §5 (Experiments): The manuscript provides no ablation studies isolating the contributions of data scaling, model capacity scaling, and compute scaling, nor sufficient training details (hyperparameters, optimization schedule, data preprocessing, or exact model architecture). This makes it difficult to confirm that the reported improvements derive from the described scaling recipe rather than unstated implementation choices or benchmark-specific tuning.

minor comments (2)

[Abstract] Abstract: the notation '10$^{circ}$' should be rendered consistently as 10° in the final version.
[§5] Ensure the full training recipe and model architecture details appear in the main text or supplementary material to support the public code release.

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We thank the referee for the constructive and detailed feedback on our manuscript. The comments highlight important aspects of reproducibility and attribution of results, which we address point by point below. We will incorporate revisions to strengthen the paper accordingly.

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Referee: [§4] §4 (HardMatch dataset construction): Ground-truth correspondences are produced exclusively by manual annotation from the authors on 1000 internet-sourced difficult pairs. No inter-annotator agreement statistics, annotation protocol details, or cross-validation against independent automatic pipelines are reported. Because the headline result (+18.6 mAA) and the claim of progress on challenging pairs rest on this dataset, the absence of validation leaves the attribution of gains insecure.

Authors: We agree that additional transparency on HardMatch construction is essential given its role in the headline results. In the revised manuscript we will expand §4 with a detailed annotation protocol describing pair selection criteria, the visual inspection process and tools used to identify correspondences, verification steps, and quality control measures. While the annotations were performed by the author team with iterative consensus rather than independent annotators, we will report any available intra-team agreement measures and add a discussion of this limitation. We will also include a cross-validation experiment on a subset of pairs against an independent automatic pipeline (e.g., SuperPoint+LightGlue with manual review of discrepancies) to provide supporting evidence of reliability. These additions will directly address concerns about attribution of the reported gains. revision: yes
Referee: [§5] §5 (Experiments): The manuscript provides no ablation studies isolating the contributions of data scaling, model capacity scaling, and compute scaling, nor sufficient training details (hyperparameters, optimization schedule, data preprocessing, or exact model architecture). This makes it difficult to confirm that the reported improvements derive from the described scaling recipe rather than unstated implementation choices or benchmark-specific tuning.

Authors: We acknowledge that the current version lacks explicit ablations and comprehensive training details, which limits the ability to isolate scaling effects. In the revision we will add a dedicated ablation subsection in §5 (and supplementary material) that systematically varies data mixture size, model capacity, and compute budget while holding other factors fixed, reporting performance on HardMatch and at least one other benchmark. We will also expand the experimental section with full hyperparameter tables, optimization schedules, data preprocessing pipelines, and precise model architecture specifications (including layer counts, feature dimensions, and training recipe details). These changes will allow readers to better attribute improvements to the scaling approach described in the paper. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity in empirical scaling results

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The paper is an empirical study that trains models on large data mixtures with scaled capacity and compute, then reports performance on held-out benchmarks including a new manually annotated HardMatch dataset. No mathematical derivation, equations, predictions, or first-principles results are present that could reduce to self-defined inputs, fitted parameters renamed as predictions, or load-bearing self-citations of uniqueness theorems. All claims rest on direct experimental measurements against external benchmarks and prior methods; the central results do not reduce by construction to the training inputs.

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