arXiv AI By Rit Gangopadhyay, Jung-Hee Kim, Xien Chen, Patrick Rim, Hyoungseob Park, Alex Wong

Extending Foundational Monocular Depth Estimators to Fisheye Cameras with Calibration Tokens

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arXiv:2508. 04928v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We propose a method to extend foundational monocular depth estimators (FMDEs), trained on perspective images, to fisheye images.

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