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  1. M3SunAgent: Monocular 3D Spatial Understanding Agent for Metric Depth Estimation and 3D Visual Grounding

    Oct 6, 2026Jinsong Zhang, Kejun Wu, Ming Zhu +3Monocular Depth EstimationTool-Using Agents

    School of Electronic Information and Communications, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China · College of Intelligent Systems Science and Engineering, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin 150001, China · Institute of Advanced Intelligence and Computation, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore

  2. SPACE-CLIPv2: Decoding Local Geometry from Frozen CLIP for Monocular Depth Estimation

    Oct 4, 2026Hyun Song, Taewan Cho, Kangmin Kim +1Vision-Language ModelsVision Foundation Models

    School of Computing, iRASC Lab., Gachon University

  3. SFE-VGGT: Source-Free VGGT Distillation for Event-Based Monocular Depth Estimation

    Sep 29, 2026Thai Duy Nguyen, Addison Lin WangEvent-Based VisionMonocular Depth Estimation

    Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

  4. EpiTransfer: Sparse, Training-Free Long-Range Depth Estimation from Temporal Monocular Aerial Frames

    Sep 27, 2026Diksha Aggarwal, Rutvik Dagadkhair, Sanjana Srivastava +2Multi-View GeometryDepth Estimation

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA. · Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia.

  5. FounRef: Robust, Structure-Preserving, and Fast Metric Refinement of Frozen Monocular Foundation Priors with Sparse Anchors

    Sep 24, 2026Dan Halperin, Mirko MählischMetric Depth EstimationDepth Completion

    University of the Bundeswehr Munich, Germany

  6. LiFR v2: Completion-Augmented Event Propagation for High-Rate Dense Prediction

    Sep 22, 2026Tao Wan, Xiaoshan Wu, Yifei Yu +6Event-Based VisionMonocular Depth Estimation

    School of Microelectronics, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China · Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

  7. CMAMBADEPTH: Self-supervised Monocular Depth Estimation with Channel Mamba and Hybrid Attention

    Sep 21, 2026Xuezhi Xiang, Jiayao Liu, Heqi Xiang +3Monocular Depth EstimationMulti-Scale Feature Fusion

    School of Information and Communication Engineering, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin 150001, China · Key Laboratory of Advanced Marine Communication and Information Technology, Harbin 150001, China · Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Toronto ON M5S 2E4, Canada +1

  8. OmniPoint: Universal Monocular Metric Pointcloud from Any Camera

    Sep 8, 2026Botao Ye, Marc Pollefeys, Ming-Hsuan Yang +1Panoramic 3D Reconstruction3D Reconstruction

    Google DeepMind · ETH Zurich · Work done as an intern at Google DeepMind.

  9. Marigold V2: Revisiting Diffusion Transformers for Monocular Depth Estimation

    Sep 8, 2026Igor Pavlovic, Thiemo Wandel, Anton Obukhov +6Diffusion TransformerOOD Generalization

    EPFL, HUAWEI Bayer Lab, Switzerland · HUAWEI Bayer Lab, Switzerland · University of Bologna, Italy +1

  10. Are Image Generators Zero-Shot Perceivers? A Rigorous Evaluation

    Sep 7, 2026Shangzhe Di, Zhaokai Wang, Weidi XieDistribution Shift RobustnessZero-Shot Learning

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

  11. Adapting a Foundation Model for Lunar Surface Height Estimation

    Sep 2, 2026Patrick Bauer, Marius Schwinning, Melanie Siegel +2Monocular Depth EstimationDomain Adaptation

    University of Technology of Troyes · Hochschule Darmstadt · European Space Agency +1

  12. Monocular Depth Estimation from a Single Image: Progress and Opportunities

    Sep 1, 2026Muxin Liu, Xiaoyang Lyu, Yang-Tian Sun +4Metric Depth EstimationDepth Estimation

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 999077.

  13. Efficient and High-Quality Depth Estimation via Pixel-Space Diffusion with Linear Attention

    Aug 31, 2026Bingde Liu, Wu Ran, Jinglei Zhang +2Monocular Depth EstimationPixel-Space Diffusion Models

    MoE Key Lab of Artificial Intelligence, Institute of AI, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China · Zhiyuan College, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

  14. OptiGeo: Efficient Monocular Geometry for Embodied Perception in Optically Challenging Scenes

    Aug 30, 2026Muxin Liu, Tianbo Liu, Jing Xia +7Depth EstimationMonocular Depth Estimation

    1The University of Hong Kong · 2Voyager Research, DiDi Chuxing · 3Southern University of Science and Technology

  15. PXDepth: Pixel-Space Modeling for Structure Preserving Monocular Depth Estimation

    Aug 17, 2026Zhiyuan Yuan, Guanying Chen, Lingteng Qiu +3Depth EstimationVision Transformer

    1Sun Yat-sen University · 3CUHKSZ · 2Shenzhen-FNii

  16. Repurposing RGB-based Foundation Model for Depth Estimation on Thermal Images Using Hierarchical Supervision

    Aug 12, 2026Jie Hong, Tingtian Li, Xuesong Li +1Thermal ImagingCross-Modal Knowledge Distillation

    CI3 Lab, Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China · Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Canberra, ACT, Australia

  17. A second-order theory of texture for depth from focus

    Aug 11, 2026Sreekar Ranganathan, Ioannis GkioulekasDepth EstimationMonocular Depth Estimation

    Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA, USA

  18. An active-learning framework for real-time depth perception from monocular vision streams

    Aug 5, 2026Xiaorong Zeng, Weiqiang Chen, Peng Shi +4Edge InferenceMonocular Depth Estimation

    School of Mechanical and Automotive Engineering, Xiamen University of Technology, Xiamen, Fujian 361024, China · King Long United Automotive Industry Co. Ltd., Xiamen 361023, China · School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia +2

  19. XiDepth: a Lightweight and Efficient Network for Self-supervised Monocular Depth Estimation

    Aug 4, 2026Elena Izzo, Riccardo Toniolo, Lamberto BallanEnergy-Efficient MLMonocular Depth Estimation

    Department of Mathematics University of Padova Padova, Italy

  20. GIFT: Geometry-Invariant Fine-Tuning for Non-Lambertian Monocular Depth Estimation

    Aug 3, 2026Xianghui Fan, Zhaoyu Chen, Bingqian Wu +6Depth EstimationMonocular Depth Estimation

    Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · Fudan University +1

  21. Breaking the Horizontal Prior: From Long-Tailed Orientation Bias to Roll-Robust Monocular Depth Estimation

    Aug 1, 2026Kaihua Tang, Ziqing Xia, Xiaoxu Zheng +4Depth EstimationMonocular Depth Estimation

    Tongji University · Huawei Technologies Ltd.

  22. Beyond Visual Ambiguity: Guiding Robust Monocular Depth Estimation in Challenging Scenarios via Detailed Long Captions

    Jul 30, 2026Junrui Zhang, Jiaqi Li, Yiran Wang +2Monocular Depth Estimation

    School of Artificial Intelligence and Automation, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

  23. JEPADepth: Masked Predictive Representation Learning for Self-Supervised Monocular Depth Estimation

    Jul 29, 2026Ionuţ Grigore, Călin-Adrian PopaSelf-Supervised LearningMonocular Depth Estimation

    Politehnica University of Timis,oara, Romania

  24. SILICA: Repurposing Diffusion Priors for Joint Glass Segmentation and Depth Estimation

    Jul 27, 2026Tarun R, Anuj Verma, Laksh Nanwani +2Image SegmentationDepth Estimation

    Robotics Research Center (RRC), IIIT Hyderabad

  25. DAPM: UAV Monocular Depth Estimation from Any Height, Pitch, Roll and FOV

    Jul 23, 2026Tong Ling, Wenhui Diao, Yingchao Feng +3Aerial RoboticsUAV Navigation

    Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China, also with the School of Electronic, Electrical and Communication Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China, also with the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China, and also with the Key Laboratory of Target Cognition and Application Technology (TCAT), Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China · Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China, and also with the Key Laboratory of Target Cognition and Application Technology (TCAT), Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China

  26. DepthART: Scaling Foundation Monocular Depth to Tiny Models

    Jul 19, 2026Feng Xue, Wu Chen, Mingshuai Zhao +7Metric Depth EstimationMonocular Depth Estimation

    University of Trento Trento, Italy · Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications Beijing, China · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Hong Kong, China +1

  27. Geometric Distillation from Rectified Stereo: Leveraging Epipolar Cues for Monocular Depth

    Jul 17, 2026Jung-Hee Kim, Xiaoming LiuMetric Depth EstimationMonocular Depth Estimation

    Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27514, USA

  28. ARDepth: Auto-regressive Monocular Depth Estimation with Progressive Visual Conditioning

    Jul 14, 2026Zijie Wang, Wei Zhang, Weiming Zhang +4Depth EstimationMonocular Depth Estimation

    School of Computer Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510006, China · Shenzhen Loop Area Institute, Shenzhen, 518038, China · Baidu Inc., Shenzhen, 518066, China +3

  29. FoundationGeo: Learning Spatial Pixel-Wise Fields for Monocular Metric Geometry

    Jul 13, 2026Muxin Liu, Xiaoyang Lyu, Tianhe Ren +7Monocular 3D ReconstructionMonocular Depth Estimation

    The University of Hong Kong · Voyager Research, DiDi Chuxing

  30. ZipDepth: Bringing Lightweight Zero-Shot Monocular Depth Anywhere, on Any Device

    Jul 9, 2026Fabio Tosi, Luca Bartolomei, Matteo Poggi +1Efficient Neural Network InferenceMonocular Depth Estimation

    University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

  31. Geometric Collapse: When Vision Models Fail to Verify Physical Causality

    Jul 8, 2026Wentao Zhang, Jinhu Qi, Weiqiang Jin +3Physical ReasoningDepth Estimation

    Faculty of Applied Sciences, Macao Polytechnic University, Macao SAR, China · The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China · AgentecFusion Limited +2

  32. The Multipath Blind Spot: KK-Agnostic Robust Calibration for Sparse-Anchor Metric Depth from Frozen Foundations

    Jul 5, 2026Sohag Roy, Rajesh Misra, Swami Shastravidyananda +1Post-Hoc CalibrationMetric Depth Estimation

    Department of Computer Science, Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Educational and Research Institute (RKMVERI), Belur, Howrah, West Bengal 711202, India

  33. FoundDP: Revisiting Weak Disparity Observability in Dual-Pixel Depth Estimation

    Jul 2, 2026Fengchen He, Hao Xu, Dayang Zhao +2Metric Depth EstimationDepth Estimation

    Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

  34. ICDepth: Taming Video Diffusion Models for Video Depth Estimation via In-Context Conditioning

    Jul 2, 2026Xuanhua He, Jiaxin Xie, Mingzhe Zheng +1Video Diffusion ModelsDepth Estimation

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR, China

  35. Towards Robust Driving Perception: A Flexible Scale-Driven Family for Self-Supervised Monocular Depth Estimation

    Jul 1, 2026Zhaowen Zhu, Li Zhang, Yujie Chen +3Depth EstimationMonocular Depth Estimation

    Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, China · Chengpin Home Tech, Nanjing, China · Differential Robotics, Hangzhou, China +1

  36. Typography-Based Monocular Distance Estimation for Advanced Driver-Assistance Systems

    Jul 1, 2026Manognya Lokesh Reddy, Zheng LiuCollision AvoidanceMonocular Depth Estimation

    University of Michigan-Dearborn Dearborn, MI 48128

  37. MUSE: Unlocking Timestep as Native Task Steering for One-Step Dense Prediction

    Jun 29, 2026Shuo Zhou, Zhaoxin Li, Xiujuan ChaiMonocular Depth EstimationSurface Normal Estimation

    Agricultural Information Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China. · Key Laboratory of Agricultural Big Data, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Beijing, China.

  38. AerialMetric: Benchmarking and Adapting UAV Monocular Metric Depth Estimation in the Real World

    Jun 29, 2026Zhongqiang Song, Guanying Chen, Yuqi Zhang +6Metric Depth EstimationMonocular Depth Estimation

    Sun Yat-sen University, Shenzhen Campus · 1Sun Yat-sen University, Shenzhen Campus · FNii–Shenzhen +5

  39. One Scene, Two Depths: Probing Geometric Ambiguity in Monocular Foundation Models

    Jun 28, 2026Xiaohao Xu, Feng Xue, Xiang Li +53D Foundation ModelsDepth Estimation

    University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA · Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA · New York University, New York, NY, USA +1

  40. Can Single-View Mesh Reconstruction Generalize to Robot Camera Rotation?

    Jun 22, 2026Yu Zhan, Guangcheng Chen, Hanjing Ye +4Monocular Depth Estimation3D Mesh Reconstruction

    Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Robotics and Computer Vision, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) · Pengcheng Laboratory

  41. WildBox: A Dataset and Benchmark for Aerial Monocular 3D Detection of African Savanna Wildlife

    Jun 19, 2026Vandita Shukla, Kilian Meier, Lucie Laporte-Devylder +6Monocular Depth Estimation3D Object Detection

    13D Optical Metrology Unit, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy · 2Computer Vision and Machine Learning Systems group, Institute for Geoinformatics, University of Muenster, Muenster, Germany · School of Civil, Aerospace and Design Engineering, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK +6

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

    Jun 15, 2026Hongchao Shu, Roger D. Soberanis-Mukul, Hao Ding +5EndoscopyMonocular Depth Estimation

    Department of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21211 USA · Semaphor Surgical · Johnson & Johnson MedTech, Santa Clara, CA 95054 USA

  43. 3D Consistency Optimization for Self-Supervised Monocular Video Depth Estimation

    Jun 14, 2026Yuanye Liu, Ke Zhang, Junzhe Jiang +3Depth EstimationMonocular Depth Estimation

    Fudan University, Shanghai, China · Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA

  44. Modality Forcing for Scalable Spatial Generation

    Jun 11, 2026Bardienus Pieter Duisterhof, Deva Ramanan, Jeffrey Ichnowski +2Diffusion TransformerMonocular Depth Estimation

    Carnegie Mellon University · World Labs

  45. DepthMaster: Unified Monocular Depth Estimation for Perspective and Panoramic Images

    Jun 10, 2026Pengfei Wang, Shihao Wang, Liyi Chen +3Metric Depth EstimationDepth Estimation

    Visual Computing Lab The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

  46. Leveraging Metric Depth for Relative Depth Prediction

    Jun 9, 2026Xiaoyang Bi, Shuaikun Liu, Zhaohong Liu +5Depth EstimationMonocular Depth Estimation

    Beijing Key Laboratory of Intelligent Telecommunications Software and Multimedia · Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications

  47. Honey, I Shrunk the Arc de Triomphe!

    Jun 1, 2026Yuanbo Xiangli, Hanyu Chen, Xueqing Tsang +13D Foundation ModelsMetric Depth Estimation

    Cornell University · Shanghai Jiao Tong University

  48. ActMVS: Active Scene Reconstruction with Monocular Multi-View Stereo

    May 31, 2026Guo Pu, Yixuan Han, Zhouhui LianMulti-View Depth Estimation3D Reconstruction

    Wangxuan Institute of Computer Technology, Peking University

  49. VLM3: Vision Language Models Are Native 3D Learners

    May 28, 2026Zhipeng Cai, Zhuang Liu, Yunyang Xiong +3Camera Pose EstimationMonocular Depth Estimation

    Meta · Princeton University

  50. Large Depth Completion Model from Sparse Observations

    May 28, 2026Zhu Yu, Zhengyi Zhao, Runmin Zhang +7Metric Depth EstimationDepth Estimation

    Zhejiang University · Internship at Tongyi Lab · Tongyi Lab, Alibaba Group +4

  51. SA4Depth: Consistent Pose-Depth Scale Alignment for Self-Supervised Monocular Depth Estimation

    May 27, 2026Changxuan Li, Nadine Berner, Nassir Navab +2Self-Supervised LearningCamera Pose Estimation

    Technical University of Munich. · Munich Center for Machine Learning (MCML). · BMW Group. +2

  52. Sparse-LiDAR Prompting of Monocular Geometry Foundations: An Empirical Study Toward Long-Range Driving Depth

    May 26, 2026Kai Zheng, Qiang Feng, Xingjian Liu +2Vision Foundation ModelsDepth Estimation

    1Benewake (Beijing) Co., Ltd.

  53. Stabilizing Streaming Video Geometry via Dynamic Feature Normalization

    May 25, 2026Xiaoyang Lyu, Muxin Liu, Xiaoshan Wu +5Streaming 3D ReconstructionDepth Estimation

    1The University of Hong Kong · 2USTC · 3Voyager Research, Didi Chuxing

  54. WideDepth: Millimeter-Accurate Benchmark for Fisheye Depth Estimation

    May 22, 2026Ilia Indyk, Ignat Penshin, Ivan Sosin +3Metric Depth EstimationDepth Estimation

    Robotics Center, Moscow, Russia · AXXX, Moscow, Russia · Trusted AI Research Center, RAS, Moscow, Russia

  55. DepthAgent: Towards Better Universal Depth Estimation via Sample-wise Expert Selection

    May 22, 2026Jie Zhu, Girish Chandar Ganesan, Xiaoming LiuMetric Depth EstimationMonocular Depth Estimation

    Michigan State University · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  56. UfM*: Uncertainty from Motion* for DNN Depth Estimation Using Gaussians

    May 21, 2026Soumya Sudhakar, Sertac Karaman, Vivienne SzeUncertainty QuantificationDepth Estimation

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA

  57. Depth2Pose: A Pose-Based Benchmark for Monocular Depth Estimation without Ground-Truth Depth

    May 19, 2026Viktor Kocur, Sithu Aung, Gabrielle Flood +4Depth EstimationMonocular Depth Estimation

    Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University in Bratislava · Visual Recognition Group, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague · Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics, Czech Technical University in Prague

  58. Monocular Depth Perception Enhancement Based on Joint Shading/Contrast Model and Motion Parallax (JSM)

    May 17, 2026Seungchul Ryu, Hyunjin Yoo, Tara AkhavanDepth EstimationMonocular Depth Estimation

    Faurecia Irystec Inc., Montreal, QC, Canada

  59. Unlocking Dense Metric Depth Estimation in VLMs

    May 15, 2026Hanxun Yu, Xuan Qu, Yuxin Wang +2Vision-Language ModelsMetric Depth Estimation

    Zhejiang University · Tencent Hunyuan LLM · HKUST +1

  60. CoGE: Sim-to-Real Online Geometric Estimation for Monocular Colonoscopy

    May 13, 2026Liangjing Shao, Beilei Cui, Hongliang RenSynthetic-to-Real Domain AdaptationEndoscopy

    Department of Electronic Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China · Shenzhen Loop Area Institute, China