arXiv AI

Geometry-Consistent Endoscopic Representations for Image-Guided Navigation via Structured Foundation Model Adaptation

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 AI
Aug 10

Representation-driven Endoscopic Visual Embedding Alignment for Latent Generation

arXiv:2608. 07176v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Developing foundation generative models for endoscopy is limited by the gap between natural and clinical images and the computational cost of training large Diffusion Transformers.

By Francisco Caetano, Tim J. M. Jaspers, Haiko Middeljans, Martijn R. Jong, Rixta A. H. van Eijck van Heslinga, Floor Slooter, Albert J. de Groof, Jacques J. Bergman, Peter H. N. De With, Fons van der Sommen
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.

By John J. Han, Adam Schmidt, Muhammad Abdullah Jamal, Jie Ying Wu, Omid Mohareri
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 3

Geometry-Guided Modeling of Foundation Features Enables Generalizable Object Shape Deformation Learning

The paper introduces a generalizable deformation learning framework that reconstructs 3D objects by deforming a category-level shape template to match a monocular observation. It employs a geometry-guided feature modeling mechanism to enrich foundation features with template topology, creating a geometry-aware representation that is explicitly correlated with the target observation for precise deformation. A view-adaptive feature aggregation module further bridges the gap between the fixed template and arbitrary target views by leveraging multi-view template features and camera poses, ensuring robust feature alignment across diverse viewpoints.

By Yiyao Ma, Kai Chen, Zhongxiang Zhou, Zhuheng Song, Dongsheng Xie, Zelong Tan, Rong Xiong, Qi Dou