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Auteurs principaux: Li, Yuanyan, Althoff, Matthias
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Publié: 2026
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author Li, Yuanyan
Althoff, Matthias
author_facet Li, Yuanyan
Althoff, Matthias
contents Monocular depth estimation (MDE) typically produces depth estimations that are defined up to an unknown scale or shift. When only sparse metric anchors are available, recovering accurate metric depth becomes challenging yet necessary for practical applications. We address this problem by formulating metric depth recovery as image-adaptive scale field modeling. Instead of directly correcting the depth, we reformulate the correction as a low-dimensional linear combination of image-adaptive basis maps. These maps are derived from semantic and geometric cues encoded in the MDE estimations and intermediate representations. The weights of basis maps are efficiently determined from sparse metric anchors via a least-squares problem. This formulation yields improved metric depth accuracy, strong robustness under extreme anchor sparsity, and an interpretable decomposition of spatial scale variations. Extensive experiments across multiple datasets and representative MDE models demonstrate the effectiveness and general applicability of our approach.
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spellingShingle Learning Image-Adaptive Scale Fields for Metric Depth Recovery
Li, Yuanyan
Althoff, Matthias
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Monocular depth estimation (MDE) typically produces depth estimations that are defined up to an unknown scale or shift. When only sparse metric anchors are available, recovering accurate metric depth becomes challenging yet necessary for practical applications. We address this problem by formulating metric depth recovery as image-adaptive scale field modeling. Instead of directly correcting the depth, we reformulate the correction as a low-dimensional linear combination of image-adaptive basis maps. These maps are derived from semantic and geometric cues encoded in the MDE estimations and intermediate representations. The weights of basis maps are efficiently determined from sparse metric anchors via a least-squares problem. This formulation yields improved metric depth accuracy, strong robustness under extreme anchor sparsity, and an interpretable decomposition of spatial scale variations. Extensive experiments across multiple datasets and representative MDE models demonstrate the effectiveness and general applicability of our approach.
title Learning Image-Adaptive Scale Fields for Metric Depth Recovery
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.07418