arXiv AI
Jul 21
DepthART: Scaling Foundation Monocular Depth to Tiny Models
arXiv:2607. 17099v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent geometric foundation models (e.
Marigold V2: Revisiting Diffusion Transformers for Monocular Depth Estimation
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arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 2
Monocular Depth Estimation from a Single Image: Progress and Opportunities
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 Computer Vision
Aug 24
M2Depth: Unifying Monocular Depth Foundation Priors with Multi-View Stereo
arXiv:2608.20788v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep learning-based Multi-View Stereo (MVS) has advanced significantly but often generalizes poorly to unseen scenes, particularly in occluded areas or...
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 1
Efficient and High-Quality Depth Estimation via Pixel-Space Diffusion with Linear Attention
arXiv:2608.30129v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This work presents $\textbf{Lapis}$, a $\textbf{l}$inear-$\textbf{a}$ttention-based $\textbf{pi}$xel-$\textbf{s}$pace generative framework that achieve...
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 3
Geometric Distillation from Rectified Stereo: Leveraging Epipolar Cues for Monocular Depth
The paper introduces Epipolar Distillation (EpiDistill), a method that transfers scale‑aware geometric priors from multi‑view models to monocular depth foundation models using Rectified Stereo Tokens. By preserving epipolar attention patterns, the single‑view model maintains geometric consistency without needing multi‑view inputs during inference. Experiments show significant improvements in zero‑shot metric depth estimation on challenging datasets such as ETH3D and DIODE, and the approach consistently boosts performance of state‑of‑the‑art ViT‑based models like UniDepthV2 and DepthPro.
arXiv AI
Aug 19
PXDepth: Pixel-Space Modeling for Structure Preserving Monocular Depth Estimation
PXDepth is a monocular depth estimation model that separates global context modeling from pixel-level depth prediction. It uses a large-patch Vision Transformer to capture scene context and a pixel-space predictor with Context‑Modulated Pixel Transformer blocks to preserve high‑resolution spatial details. The approach maintains fine structures and sharp boundaries while achieving competitive global depth accuracy in zero‑shot benchmarks.
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 31
Video Generative Models as Geometry Learner
The paper introduces GeoNeXt, a framework that repurposes pretrained video generative models for geometry estimation by framing it as a next‑frame prediction task. Unlike prior methods that either train separate depth/normal models or fine‑tune image diffusion backbones, GeoNeXt jointly models images and geometric targets, leveraging the structured knowledge of video models for more data‑efficient learning. Experiments show zero‑shot monocular depth and surface normal estimation that outperforms existing generative approaches and rivals discriminative state‑of‑the‑art methods while using far less training data.
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 7
DART: Depth-as-Target Pretraining for Surgical Vision Foundation Models
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.
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 2
FoundDP: Revisiting Weak Disparity Observability in Dual-Pixel Depth Estimation
Dual-pixel (DP) imaging enables metric depth estimation from a single camera using sub-aperture disparity. However, the extremely small effective baseline limits disparity observability, leading to structural degradation and depth failure in textureless, low-contrast, or downsampled regions.
arXiv AI
Jul 7
MetricAnything: Scaling Metric Depth Pretraining with Noisy Heterogeneous Sources
arXiv:2601. 22054v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Scaling has powered recent advances in vision foundation models, yet extending this paradigm to metric depth estimation remains challenging due to heterogeneous sensor noise, camera-dependent biases, and metric ambiguity in noisy cross-source 3D data.
arXiv AI
Jul 15
ARDepth: Auto-regressive Monocular Depth Estimation with Progressive Visual Conditioning
arXiv:2607. 12433v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Diffusion models have recently become the dominant paradigm for monocular depth estimation (MDE).
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 4
PoseDreamer: Scalable and Photorealistic Human Data Generation Pipeline with Diffusion Models
PoseDreamer is a new pipeline that uses diffusion models to generate large‑scale synthetic datasets for 3D human mesh estimation, providing 3D mesh annotations that remain aligned with the generated images. The system incorporates controllable image generation, Direct Preference Optimization for control alignment, curriculum‑based hard sample mining, and multi‑stage quality filtering to produce over 500,000 high‑quality samples with a 76% improvement in image‑quality metrics over traditional rendering‑based datasets. Models trained on PoseDreamer match or surpass those trained on real‑world or conventional synthetic data, and combining PoseDreamer with synthetic datasets yields better performance than mixing real and synthetic data alone.