
Bingyi Kang
@bingyikang • 3,512 subscribers
growing alongside @amilabs, prev: created and led the Depth Anything series
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After a year of team work, we're thrilled to introduce Depth Anything 3 (DA3)! 🚀 Aiming for human-like spatial perception, DA3 extends monocular depth estimation to any-view scenarios, including single images, multi-view images, and video. In pursuit of minimal modeling, DA3 reveals two key insights: 💎 A plain transformer (e.g., vanilla DINO) is enough. No specialized architecture. ✨ A single depth-ray representation is enough. No complex 3D tasks. Three series of models have been released: the main DA3 series, a monocular metric estimation series, and a monocular depth estimation series. The core team members, aside from me: Haotong Lin, Sili Chen, Jun Hao Liew, Donny Y. Chen. 👇(1/n) #DepthAnything3
Bingyi Kang514,130 views • 6 months ago

Curious whether video generation models (like #SORA) qualify as world models? We conduct a systematic study to answer this question by investigating whether a video gen model is able to learn physical laws. Three are three key messages to take home: 1⃣The model generalises perfectly for in-distribution data, but fails to do out-of-distribution generalization. For combinatorial scenarios, scaling law is observed. 2⃣The models fail to abstract general rules and instead tries to mimic the closest training example. 3⃣The model prioritizes different attributes when referencing training data: color > size > velocity > shape. This work is a joint effort with our outstanding intern Yang Yue. Paper: Webpage:
Bingyi Kang606,519 views • 1 year ago

Want to use Depth Anything, but need metric depth rather than relative depth? Thrilled to introduce Prompt Depth Anything, a new paradigm for accurate metric depth estimation with up to 4K resolution. 👉Key Message: Depth foundation models like DA have already internalized rich geometric knowledge of the 3D world but lack a proper way to elicit it. Inspired by the success of prompting in LLMs, we propose prompting Depth Anything with metric cues to produce metric depth. This method proves to be very effective when using a low-cost lidar (e.g., iPhone's LiDAR), which is widely available, as prompts. We believe the prompt can generalize to other forms as long as scale information is provided. Prompt Depth Anything offers 1⃣A series of models for iPhone lidars. 2⃣4D reconstruction from monocular videos (captured with iPhone). 3⃣Improved generalization ability for robot manipulation, e.g. Training on cans but generalizing on glasses. 4⃣More detailed depth annotations for the ScanNet++ dataset. The first author is our excellent intern Haotong Lin. Paper: Huggingface: Project Page: Code:
Bingyi Kang67,550 views • 1 year ago
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