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
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 4

SGFormer: Structure-Guided Transformer for Robust Local Feature Matching

Local feature matching is a fundamental component of photogrammetry, enabling accurate image correspondence critical for tasks such as 3D reconstruction, stereo mapping, and visual localization. While recent detector-free matching methods, like LoFTR, have advanced the field, the global features obtained by leveraging the global-range modeling capacity of the unconstrained attention mechanism compromise the model's attention to the salient structures in certain scenarios.

arXiv AI
1d ago

E3tereo: Improving Stereo Matching at Depth Boundaries with Learned Geometric Edges

E3Stereo improves stereo matching at depth boundaries by learning geometric edges from disparity supervision. It integrates these edges with backbone disparity and image details to predict full‑resolution disparity corrections, emphasizing boundary errors during training. On the Scene Flow dataset, E3Stereo reduces end‑point error at depth boundaries by 9.5%–14.3% across multiple models and improves all eleven metrics on ETH3D, KITTI 2012, and KITTI 2015 after fine‑tuning.

By Qi Xiong, Qinghua Zhao, Yongqiang Xi