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The team, partners and resources behind Niantic Spatial.

Research at the frontier of spatial intelligence.

Our teams in London, Oxford, across Europe and San Francisco publish at CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS and ICLR. The work ships into the models people and machines use every day.

Areas of focus

Reconstruction
Metric 3D from ordinary cameras. The line that began with Monodepth now reconstructs large outdoor scenes from street and satellite views.
Visual localization
Knowing exactly where a camera is from what it sees, from maps trained in minutes to models that work in places they have never seen.
Scene understanding
Structure and meaning in 3D, so people and agents can find planes, place objects and edit real scenes with language.
Spatial interfaces
Putting spatial intelligence to work for people, from guided scanning to navigation for blind and low-vision users.

Publications

47 publications
ECCV 2026AutoCompass: Accurate Visual Localization on Public Maps by Learning from Weak LabelsJavier Tirado-Garín, Alan Savio Paul, Shuai Chen, Axel Barroso-Laguna, Tommaso Cavallari, Daniyar Turmukhambetov, Victor Adrian Prisacariu, Eric BrachmannProject pageCVPR 2026Cross-View Splatter: Feed-Forward View Synthesis with Georeferenced ImagesMatias Turkulainen, Akshay Krishnan, Filippo Aleotti, Mohamed Sayed, Guillermo Garcia-Hernando, Juho Kannala, Arno Solin, Gabriel Brostow, Daniyar TurmukhambetovProject pageICLR 2026A Scene is Worth a Thousand Features: Feed-Forward Camera Localization from a Collection of Image FeaturesAxel Barroso-Laguna, Tommaso Cavallari, Victor Adrian Prisacariu, Eric BrachmannProject pageCHI 2026NaviNote: Enabling In-situ Spatial Annotation Authoring to Support Exploration and Navigation for Blind and Low Vision PeopleRuijia Chen, Yuheng Wu, Charlie Houseago, Filipe Gaspar, Filippo Aleotti, Dorian Gálvez-López, Oliver Johnston, Diego Mazala, Guillermo Garcia-Hernando, Maryam Bandukda, Gabriel Brostow, Jessica Van BrummelenProject pageICCV 2025ACE-G: Improving Generalization of Scene Coordinate Regression through Query Pre-TrainingLeonard Bruns, Axel Barroso-Laguna, Tommaso Cavallari, Áron Monszpart, Sowmya Munukutla, Victor Adrian Prisacariu, Eric BrachmannProject pageICCV 2025PlaceIt3D: Language-Guided Object Placement in Real 3D ScenesAhmed Abdelreheem, Filippo Aleotti, Jamie Watson, Zawar Qureshi, Abdelrahman Eldesokey, Peter Wonka, Gabriel Brostow, Sara Vicente, Guillermo Garcia-Hernando from Niantic Spatial, 2KAUST, 3UCLProject pageICCV 2025Scene Coordinate Reconstruction PriorsWenjing Bian, Axel Barroso-Laguna, Tommaso Cavallari, Victor Adrian Prisacariu, Eric Brachmann Project pageUIST 2025ImaginateAR: AI‑Assisted In‑Situ Authoring in Augmented RealityJaewook Lee*, Filippo Aleotti*, Diego Mazala, Guillermo Garcia‑Hernando, Sara Vicente, Oliver Johnston, Isabel Kraus‑Liang, Jakub Powierza, Donghoon Shin, Jon E. Froehlich, Gabriel Brostow, Jessica Van BrummelenProject pageUIST 2025AdjustAR: AI-Driven In-Situ Adjustment of Site-Specific Augmented Reality ContentNels Numan, Jessica Van Brummelen, Ziwen Lu, Anthony Steed Project pageCVPR 2025MVSAnywhere: Zero-Shot Multi-View StereoSergio Izquierdo, Mohamed Sayed, Michael Firman, Guillermo Garcia-Hernando, Daniyar Turmukhambetov, Javier Civera, Oisin Mac Aodha, Gabriel Brostow, Jamie WatsonProject pageCVPR 2025Morpheus: Text-Driven 3D Gaussian Splat Shape and Color StylizationJamie Wynn, Zawar Qureshi, Jakub Powierza, Jamie Watson, Mohamed SayedProject pageCHI 2025CoCreatAR: Enhancing Authoring of Outdoor Augmented Reality Experiences Through Asymmetric CollaborationNels Numan, Gabriel Brostow, Suhyun Park, Simon Julier, Anthony Steed, Jessica Van BrummelenProject pageECCV 2024HandDGP: Camera-Space Hand Mesh Prediction with Differentiable Global PositioningEugene Valassakis, Guillermo Garcia-HernandoProject pageECCV 2024DoubleTake: Geometry Guided Depth EstimationMohamed Sayed, Filippo Aleotti, Jamie Watson, Zawar Qureshi, Guillermo Garcia-Hernando, Gabriel Brostow, Sara Vicente, Michael FirmanProject pageECCV 2024Scene Coordinate Reconstruction: Posing of Image Collections via Incremental Learning of a RelocalizerEric Brachmann, Jamie Wynn, Shuai Chen, Tommaso Cavallari, Áron Monszpart, Daniyar Turmukhambetov, Victor Adrian PrisacariuProject pageCHI 2024Don't Look Now: Audio/Haptic Guidance for 3D Scanning of LandmarksJessica Van Brummelen, Liv Piper Urwin, Oliver James Johnston, Mohamed Sayed, Gabriel BrostowProject pageCVPR 2024Map-Relative Pose Regression for Visual Re-LocalizationShuai Chen, Tommaso Cavallari, Victor Adrian Prisacariu, Eric BrachmannProject pageCVPR 2024AirPlanes: Accurate Plane Estimation via 3D-Consistent EmbeddingsJamie Watson, Filippo Aleotti, Mohamed Sayed, Zawar Qureshi, Oisin Mac Aodha, Gabriel Brostow, Michael Firman, and Sara VicenteProject pageCVPR 2024Matching 2D Images in 3D: Metric Relative Pose from Metric CorrespondencesAxel Barroso-Laguna, Sowmya Munukutla, Victor Adrian Prisacariu, Eric BrachmannProject pageCVPR 2023Virtual Occlusions Through Implicit DepthJamie Watson, Mohamed Sayed, Zawar Qureshi, Gabriel J Brostow, Sara Vicente, Oisin Mac Aodha, Michael FirmanProject pageCVPR 2023Removing Objects From Neural Radiance FieldsSilvan Weder, Guillermo Garcia-Hernando, Aron Monszpart, Marc Pollefeys, Gabriel Brostow, Michael Firman, Sara VicenteProject pageCVPR 2023Two-view Geometry Scoring Without CorrespondencesAxel Barroso-Laguna, Eric Brachmann, Victor Adrian Prisacariu, Gabriel Brostow, Daniyar TurmukhambetovCodeCVPR 2023DiffusioNeRF: Regularizing Neural Radiance Fields with Denoising Diffusion ModelsJamie Wynn, Daniyar TurmukhambetovCodeCVPR 2023Accelerated Coordinate Encoding: Learning to Relocalize in Minutes using RGB and PosesEric Brachmann, Tommaso Cavallari, Victor Adrian PrisacariuProject pageWACV 2023Heightfields for Efficient Scene Reconstruction for ARJamie Watson, Sara Vicente, Oisin Mac Aodha, Clément Godard, Gabriel Brostow, Michael FirmanProject pageECCV 2022SimpleRecon: 3D Reconstruction Without 3D ConvolutionsMohamed Sayed, John Gibson, Jamie Watson, Victor Adrian Prisacariu, Michael Firman, Clément GodardProject pageECCV 2022Camera Pose Estimation and Localization with Active Audio SensingKarren Yang, Michael Firman, Eric Brachmann, Clément GodardProject pageECCV 2022Map-free Visual Relocalization: Metric Pose Relative to a Single ImageEduardo Arnold, Jamie Wynn, Sara Vicente, Guillermo Garcia-Hernando, Áron Monszpart, Victor Adrian Prisacariu, Daniyar Turmukhambetov, Eric BrachmannProject pageCVPR 2022Learning Structured Gaussians to Approximate Deep EnsemblesIvor J. A. Simpson, Sara Vicente, Neill D. F. CampbellProject page3DV 2021Visual Camera Re-Localization using Graph Neural Networks and Relative Pose SupervisionMehmet Ozgur Turkoglu, Eric Brachmann, Konrad Schindler, Gabriel Brostow, Aron MonszpartCodeICCV 2021On the Limits of Pseudo Ground Truth in Visual Camera Re-LocalisationEric Brachmann, Martin Humenberger, Carsten Rother, Torsten SattlerCodeCVPR 2021Cuboids Revisited: Learning Robust 3D Shape Fitting to Single RGB ImagesFlorian Kluger, Hanno Ackermann, Eric Brachmann, Michael Ying Yang, Bodo RosenhahnCodeCVPR 2021Single Image Depth Prediction with Wavelet DecompositionMichael Ramamonjisoa, Michael Firman, Jamie Watson, Vincent Lepetit, Daniyar TurmukhambetovCodeCVPR 2021The Temporal Opportunist: Self-Supervised Multi-Frame Monocular DepthJamie Watson, Oisin Mac Aodha, Victor Prisacariu, Gabriel Brostow, Michael FirmanCodeCVPR 2021Panoptic Segmentation ForecastingColin Graber, Grace Tsai, Michael Firman, Gabriel Brostow, Alexander SchwingCodeICRA 2021Learning to Predict Repeatability of Interest PointsAnh-Dzung Doan, Daniyar Turmukhambetov, Yasir Latif, Tat-Jun Chin, Soohyun BaeCodeECCV 2020Learning Stereo from Single ImagesJamie Watson, Oisin Mac Aodha, Daniyar Turmukhambetov, Gabriel J. Brostow, Michael FirmanProject pageNeurIPS 2020Physically Plausible Multi-Object Scene Synthesis Using Structured Latent SpacesSebastien Ehrhardt, Oliver Groth, Aron Monszpart, Martin Engelcke, Ingmar Posner, Niloy Mitra, Andrea VedaldiCodeECCV 2020Predicting Visual Overlap of Images Through Interpretable Non-Metric Box EmbeddingsAnita Rau, Guillermo Garcia-Hernando, Danail Stoyanov, Gabriel J. Brostow and Daniyar TurmukhambetovCodeECCV 2020Single-Image Depth Prediction Makes Feature Matching EasierCarl Toft, Daniyar Turmukhambetov, Torsten Sattler, Fredrik Kahl and Gabriel J. BrostowProject pageCVPR 2020Footprints and Free Space from a Single Color ImageJamie Watson, Michael Firman, Aron Monszpart, Gabriel J. BrostowProject pageICCV 2019Self-Supervised Monocular Depth HintsJamie Watson, Michael Firman, Gabriel J. Brostow, Daniyar TurmukhambetovCodeICCV 2019Digging Into Self-Supervised Monocular Depth EstimationClément Godard, Oisin Mac Aodha, Michael Firman, Gabriel BrostowCodeBMVC 2019An Efficient 3D CNN for Action/Object Segmentation in VideoRui Hou, Chen Chen, Rahul Sukthankar, Mubarak ShahProject pageSIGGRAPH 2019iMapper: Interaction-guided Scene Mapping from Monocular VideosAron Monszpart, Paul Guerrero, Duygu Ceylan, Ersin Yumer, Niloy J. MitraCodeACCV 2018Unsupervised Intuitive Physics from Visual ObservationsSébastien Ehrhardt, Aron Monszpart, Niloy J. Mitra, Andrea VedaldiProject pageCVPR 2017Unsupervised Monocular Depth Estimation with Left-Right ConsistencyClément Godard, Oisin Mac Aodha, Gabriel J. BrostowCode
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