Geometric Inconsistency Localization in Multi-View Image Sets

By learning from explicit supervision, including hard negatives from geometrically consistent yet deformed views, DEFECt3R improves localization performance and substantially reduces false positives compared to existing consistency-scoring methods. It comes from a paper posted to arXiv on 28 September 2026. Novel view synthesis (NVS) models can produce realistic new views of the same scene from different viewpoints. However, these generated views are not always geometrically consistent with one another. Multi-view (MV) consistency has shown promise as a tool for evaluating these NVS models. Its potential for multimedia forensics, however, remains largely unexplored, particularly for localizing geometric inconsistencies across wide-baseline image pairs. To enable research in this direction, we introduce DeformView, a wide-baseline MV dataset with pixel-level annotations of geometric inconsistencies. Using DeformView, we evaluate state-of-the-art MV consistency-scoring methods and show that approaches developed for NVS evaluation transfer poorly to the forensic task of geometric inconsistency localization. To address this limitation, we propose DEFECt3R, a lightweight learning-based classifier that uses cross-view feature relationships to localize geometric inconsistencies at the pixel level. Ablation experiments further show that both feature representations and correspondence quality contribute to localization performance. Overall, our findings demonstrate that MV geometric consistency is a promising yet underexplored signal for multimedia forensics and establish a benchmark and baseline for geometric inconsistency localization in wide-baseline MV image pairs. Code and dataset are available at https://github.com/IDLabMedia/DeformView-DEFECt3R

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By learning from explicit supervision, including hard negatives from geometrically consistent yet deformed views, DEFECt3R improves localization performance and substantially reduces false positives compared to existing consistency-scoring methods. Using DeformView, we evaluate state-of-the-art MV consistency-scoring methods and show that approaches developed for NVS evaluation transfer poorly to the forensic task of geometric inconsistency localization.

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