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.
By Jung-Hee Kim, Xiaoming Liu
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.
By Baorui Ma, Jiahui Yang, Donglin Di, Xuancheng Zhang, Jianxun Cui, Hao Li, Yan Xie, Wei Chen
We present FoundationGeo, a two-stage framework that explicitly bridges relative and metric prediction via spatial calibration and principled data design. Stage 1 learns a high-fidelity, affine-invariant geometry model by initializing with DINOv3 and training on a curated 10.
PURE is an unlabeled post‑training refinement framework that enhances feed‑forward 3D reconstruction models by improving depth and camera estimation without ground‑truth supervision. It distills structural knowledge from state‑of‑the‑art 2D priors into 4D architectures, using relative depth constraints, affine‑invariant geometry distillation, and pose refinement via feature correspondences. Experiments on synthetic and real‑world dynamic benchmarks show consistent improvements across multiple state‑of‑the‑art models, effectively mitigating domain shifts and unlocking their architectural limits in challenging in‑the‑wild scenes.
By Yaolong Zhu, Peng Li, Jiahao Lu, Chengfeng Zhao, Mengfei Li, Chao Wang, Wenyue Chen, Zekai Gu, Chengwei Ren, Ronggang Wang, Yuan Liu
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...
By Byeonggwon Lee, Sanggi Lee, Siwoo Lee, Khang Truong Giang, Soohwan Song
arXiv:2510.18714v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: This paper addresses metric 3D reconstruction of indoor scenes by exploiting their inherent geometric regularities with compact representations. Us...
By Changkun Liu, Bin Tan, Zeran Ke, Shangzhan Zhang, Jiachen Liu, Ming Qian, Nan Xue, Yujun Shen, Tristan Braud
arXiv:2608.13147v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Camera-based autonomous driving perception requires a shared representation that preserves metric 3D structure across synchronized multi-camera str...
By Longfei Xu, Xiaohui Wang, Zehao Huang, Han Li, Ya Yang, Naiyan Wang, Si Liu
OmniRay is a feed‑forward model for monocular 3D reconstruction that works without assuming a pinhole camera. It predicts a ray direction and a scale‑free radial distance for each pixel using a composite Ray Module consisting of a monotone radial base, a spherical‑harmonic residual, and a free‑form residual. Experiments across various camera types show that OmniRay achieves state‑of‑the‑art performance in camera‑agnostic monocular 3D reconstruction.
By Namitha Guruprasad, Abhay Yadav, Cheng Peng, Rama Chellappa, Anand Bhattad
Metric feed-forward 3D reconstruction for panoramic data remains under-explored due to the lack of large-scale panoramic RGB-D training data. We present Realsee3D, a hybrid dataset of 10K indoor scenes (1K real, 9K synthetic) with 299K panoramic viewpoints and precise metric annotations, and Argus, a feed-forward network trained on it for metric panoramic 3D reconstruction.
arXiv:2605.13018v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Object-centric scene understanding is a fundamental challenge in computer vision. Existing approaches often rely on multi-stage pipelines that firs...
By Yi Du, Yang You, Xiang Wan, Leonidas Guibas
arXiv:2607. 00832v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A single panorama captures the full visual sphere from one camera center, yet confines users to looking around in place without enabling true scene exploration.
By Zhenjia Li, Jinrang Jia, Yifeng Shi
arXiv:2512. 16919v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Perceiving and reconstructing 3D scene geometry from visual inputs is crucial for autonomous driving.
By Sicheng Zuo, Zixun Xie, Wenzhao Zheng, Shaoqing Xu, Fang Li, Shengyin Jiang, Long Chen, Zhi-Xin Yang, Jiwen Lu