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.

By Jung-Hee Kim, Xiaoming Liu
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.

By Baorui Ma, Jiahui Yang, Donglin Di, Xuancheng Zhang, Jianxun Cui, Hao Li, Yan Xie, Wei Chen
arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 21

PURE: Refining Feed-forward 3D Reconstruction with Unlabeled Post-training

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