arXiv:2606. 17340v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate vision-based navigation in monocular endoscopy is difficult due to limited depth cues, weak tissue texture, non-rigid deformation, and substantial appearance variation across domains, all of which complicate pose estimation, depth prediction, and image-to-anatomy alignment.
arXiv:2411. 17790v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Accurate 3D mapping in endoscopy enables quantitative, holistic lesion characterization within the gastrointestinal (GI) tract, requiring reliable depth and pose estimation.
SCOPE-4D is an endoscopic 4D geometry foundation model that predicts camera parameters, dense geometry, and 3D tissue trajectories from monocular RGB video in a single forward pass. The authors introduce SCOPE-5K, a curated dataset of about 5,000 real and synthetic gastrointestinal endoscopy and laparoscopy clips, and use it for geometric supervised fine‑tuning. Adding Common–Residual Motion (CRM) constraints and trajectory supervision further improves camera and depth estimation and enables dense 3D tissue tracking, as shown by evaluations on public and new benchmarks and a blinded user study.
arXiv:2609.01172v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Monocular depth estimation has long stood as a fundamental challenge in computer vision, enabling a wide range of applications including 3D reconstruct...
arXiv:2610.35018v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Monocular depth estimation has advanced rapidly with the development of foundation models that demonstrate strong zero-shot generalisation across diver...
Monocular colonoscopic 3D reconstruction is important for surgical robotic colonoscopy, but remains challenging due to weak texture, specular reflections, limited view overlap, and non-rigid tissue mo...
arXiv:2609.23961v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Monocular colonoscopic 3D reconstruction is important for surgical robotic colonoscopy, but remains challenging due to weak texture, specular reflectio...
DART is a new RGB‑D pretraining method for surgical vision foundation models that incorporates pseudo‑labeled depth maps as a pixel‑space reconstruction target during training. By adding a depth reconstruction head to DINOv2’s masked iBOT framework, DART improves representation quality without affecting downstream RGB‑only fine‑tuning or inference. Across eight surgical benchmarks—including segmentation, depth estimation, and image‑level recognition—DART outperforms both natural‑image and in‑domain baselines, demonstrating that geometric pseudo‑labels can strengthen foundation model pretraining without extra labels or inference cost.
This survey reviews recent advances in surgical video generation, categorizing methods into unconditional, conditional, and world modeling generation. It highlights a shift from creating visually plausible frames to modeling the causal dynamics of surgical scenes, and discusses challenges such as pixel-level fidelity versus clinical plausibility, generalization, physical realism, controllability, and interpretability. The paper also compiles experimental results from public datasets to serve as a quantitative benchmark for the field.
EndoPrior-GS is a new pipeline for dynamic endoscopic reconstruction that combines frame-extracted vision heuristics with depth maps. It creates a joint texture prior using a tool-filtered tissue mask, a non-specular photometric filter, and anatomical salience, which guides primitive initialization and density control. Experiments on EndoNeRF and SCARED datasets show that EndoPrior-GS reduces Flow Error by 27.7% and 25.8% compared to representative methods while maintaining real-time rendering speed and competitive quality.
DeFM is a self‑supervised foundation model trained solely on depth images for robotics. It uses a DINO‑style self‑distillation objective on 60 M curated depth images to learn geometric and semantic representations that generalize across environments, tasks, and sensors. The model incorporates a novel input normalization strategy for metric awareness, can be distilled into compact versions for resource‑constrained systems, and achieves state‑of‑the‑art performance on depth‑based classification, segmentation, navigation, locomotion, and manipulation benchmarks, with strong sim‑to‑real transfer.
MV-dVRK is the first ex‑vivo surgical dataset that provides multiple exposure‑synchronized stereo viewpoints, accurate surface geometry, and ground‑truth camera poses for endoscopic images. The benchmark’s static subset offers dense SfM reference geometry validated against an industrial 3D scanner, while the dynamic sequences cover ten surgical tasks with increasing kinematic complexity and tissue deformation. Using MV‑dVRK, the authors systematically compare zero‑shot monocular, stereo, multi‑stereo, and multi‑view 3D reconstruction methods, finding that multi‑stereo reconstruction with two endoscopes yields the highest coverage, and that optimization‑based multi‑view methods outperform feed‑forward foundation models when a third viewpoint is added.