Spent some time this week playing with depth estimation... models. Monocular depth estimation has come a long way, but in terms of metric accuracy and geometric consistency, stereo depth still has it beat by a wide margin. DepthPro (mono) vs FoundationStereo (stereo)show more

Introducing Depth Estimation with NVIDIA’s FoundationStereo—a new open tutorial... and codebase for metric depth sensing using Project Aria Gen 2 devices. ⚡️ Real-time ready (20 FPS) 🤖 Zero-shot generalization ⚡️Stereo image rectification and disparity estimation 🔓 Open Source Check out the code and tutorial: 🔌Chris Sweeneyshow more

Discover the right 3D Geometric Foundation Model for your... task—whether it’s stereo matching, multi-view depth estimation, video depth, pose estimation, semantic understanding, or novel view synthesis. Explore more insights in our #E3DBench #FoundationModel #3D #GaussianSplatting. Project Webpage:show more

🤔Applying Depth Estimation models directly to videos can result... in inconsistency between frames. 💪Well, not anymore. 🔥ChronoDepth is a new approach to video depth estimation that focuses on achieving both accuracy within each frame and consistency across frames. 📜More👇show more

AnyDepth: Lightweight zero-shot monocular depth estimation; surpasses DPT; -... nicely preserves detail.show more

Gave a robot 3D vision with just a regular... camera👁️ Full Tutorial: Deployed #Depth Anything V3​ on NVIDIA Robotics Jetson AGX Orin. It estimates depth from 2D images in real-time—no special sensors needed. Just need #Monocular depth estimation + #TensorRT​ optimization + #ROS2​ integration. 👉 Learn more about reComputer Robotics J5011: #TheAIHardwarePartnershow more

Depth Any Video with Scalable Synthetic Data AI physicists... and chemists continue to make strides in depth estimation from video. Check out this new paper featuring some impressive examples. See the thread for more details (unfortunately no code yet). Abstract: Video depth estimation has long been hindered by the scarcity of consistent and scalable ground truth data, leading to inconsistent and unreliable results. In this paper, we introduce Depth Any Video, a model that tackles the challenge through two key innovations. First, we develop a scalable synthetic data pipeline, capturing real-time video depth data from diverse game environments, yielding 40,000 video clips of 5-second duration, each with precise depth annotations. Second, we leverage the powerful priors of generative video diffusion models to handle real-world videos effectively, integrating advanced techniques such as rotary position encoding and flow matching to further enhance flexibility and efficiency. Unlike previous models, which are limited to fixed-length video sequences, our approach introduces a novel mixed-duration training strategy that handles videos of varying lengths and performs robustly across different frame rates 0 - even on single frames. At inference, we propose a depth interpolation method that enables our model to infer high-resolution video depth across sequences of up to 150 frames. Our model outperforms all previous generative depth models in terms of spatial accuracy and temporal consistency.show more

Video diffusion models are just overqualified depth estimators! Deterministic... single-pass depth estimation based on WanV2.1. - SOTA 5.5 AbsRel on ScanNet - data-efficient than baselines; - no temporal flicker + infinite-length estimation w/ zero scale drift.show more

Introducing 🛹 RollingDepth 🛹 — a universal monocular depth... estimator for arbitrarily long videos! Our paper, “Video Depth without Video Models,” delivers exactly that, setting new standards in temporal consistency. Check out more details in the thread 🧵show more

One more turn with this #AR: added underwater transition.... All real-time, based on #ML scene depth estimation. Built in Effect House.show more

Google just revealed an ABSOLUTE depth estimation model 🤯... As opposed to recent depth models (Marigold, PatchFusion) which aim for maximum details, DMD aims to estimate the ABSOLUTE depth (in meters) within the image More details below ⬇️⬇️show more

Left: raw depth from the OAK-D Pro W camera... Right: depth from FoundationStereoshow more

Monocular pose estimation has gotten really good Grab any... 2D video and transfer the performance to a 3D charactershow more

I added a node to my custom node that... converts the depth image to a normal map! This is useful for 2D-style images where Normals Estimation doesn't work well.show more

If you are interested in ego-centric data capture, no... need to get a headset or smart glasses. Get a $10 head strap mount and put one of these cameras on it. You get RGB, stereo, depth, 3D point clouds, and camera trajectory. Visualization powered by Rerun. Pretty cool!show more

Nano is a depth-aware atmospheric haze plugin that uses... ML depth estimation to add physically accurate fog and light scattering to your footage. Works *best* on log footage with visible light sources - it analyzes scene highlights then creates airlight (atmospheric scatter) and halation (light bloom) that responds to actual depth in the scene. Pretty clever approach to getting that cinematic haze look without having to pump a fog machine on set. Makes the OG Trapcode Shine look extremely dated (basically 2D light streaks masked by luminance values), and is yet way more controllable than the current crop of generative AI video-to-video tools.show more

StereoWorld Geometry-Aware Monocular-to-Stereo Video Generation

This is how a river depth is measured with... a laser beamed from an aircraft: bathymetric LiDAR can measure depths from 0.9 m to 40 m with a vertical accuracy of about 15 cm and horizontal accuracy of 2.5 mshow more

THIS HAS BEEN A LONG TIME COMING. NOW WE'RE... FINALLY HOME. 6688846993. NNUTTHOWZE. FOR THOSE WHO KNOW THE DEPTH OF WHAT THIS MEANS, THIS IS YOUR #SIQNAL 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 Zkeircrow TheRealPHLAQUE #LETGOTHECALMshow more

This is how a river depth is measured using... an aircraft and a laser beam. The bathymetric LiDAR can measure depths upto 40m with a accuracy of about 15 cmshow more

BIG NEWS. Blender 4.1 has realtime multipass of the... Zdepth - meaning you can now viewport composite with depth in realtime! Exciting time. And.. it happenstance will also be in Bforaritsts 4.0.1.show more