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ARXIV:2603.12250 · VIDEO DEPTH ESTIMATION · SUBMITTED 02 APR · 02:30 UTC · FRESHNESS STALE
ARXIV:2603.12250VIDEO DEPTH ESTIMATIONSUBMITTED 02 APR · 02:30 UTCFRESHNESS STALEarXiv
DVD is a state-of-the-art deterministic video depth estimation tool leveraging generative priors for 3D scene understanding.
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DVD is a state-of-the-art deterministic video depth estimation tool leveraging generative priors for 3D scene understanding. To break this impasse, we present DVD, the first framework to deterministically adapt pre-trained video diffusion models into…
Existing video depth estimation faces a fundamental trade-off: generative models suffer from stochastic geometric hallucinations and scale drift, while discriminative models demand massive labeled datasets to resolve semantic ambiguities. To break this impasse, we…
ScienceToStartup currently rates this 8.0/10 on the public viability pass. Specifically, DVD features three core designs: (i) repurposing the diffusion timestep as a structural anchor to balance global stability with high-frequency details; (ii) latent…
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10.48550/arXiv.2603.12250DVD is a state-of-the-art deterministic video depth estimation tool leveraging generative priors for 3D scene understanding.
Abstract
Existing video depth estimation faces a fundamental trade-off: generative models suffer from stochastic geometric hallucinations and scale drift, while discriminative models demand massive labeled datasets to resolve semantic ambiguities. To break this impasse, we present DVD, the first framework to deterministically adapt pre-trained video diffusion models into single-pass depth regressors. Specifically, DVD features three core designs: (i) repurposing the diffusion timestep as a structural anchor to balance global stability with high-frequency details; (ii) latent manifold rectification (LMR) to mitigate regression-induced over-smoothing, enforcing differential constraints to restore sharp boundaries and coherent motion; and (iii) global affine coherence, an inherent property bounding inter-window divergence, which enables seamless long-video inference without requiring complex temporal alignment. Extensive experiments demonstrate that DVD achieves state-of-the-art zero-shot performance across benchmarks. Furthermore, DVD successfully unlocks the profound geometric priors implicit in video foundation models using 163x less task-specific data than leading baselines. Notably, we fully release our pipeline, providing the whole training suite for SOTA video depth estimation to benefit the open-source community.
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DVD is a state-of-the-art deterministic video depth estimation tool leveraging generative priors for 3D scene understanding. To break this impasse, we present DVD, the first framework to deterministically adapt pre-trained video diffusion models into single-pass depth regressors.
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Existing video depth estimation faces a fundamental trade-off: generative models suffer from stochastic geometric hallucinations and scale drift, while discriminative models demand massive labeled datasets to resolve semantic ambiguities. To break this impasse, we present DVD, t...
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ScienceToStartup currently rates this 8.0/10 on the public viability pass. Specifically, DVD features three core designs: (i) repurposing the diffusion timestep as a structural anchor to balance global stability with high-frequency details; (ii) latent manifold rectification (LM...
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Video Depth Estimation moved forward this cycle; last verified April 2026. Public score 8.0/10.
we present DVD, the first framework to deterministically adapt pre-trained video diffusion models into single-pass depth regressors.
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repurposing the diffusion timestep as a structural anchor to balance global stability with high-frequency details
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latent manifold rectification (LMR) to mitigate regression-induced over-smoothing, enforcing differential constraints to restore sharp boundaries and coherent motion
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Extensive experiments demonstrate that DVD achieves state-of-the-art zero-shot performance across benchmarks.
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DVD successfully unlocks the profound geometric priors implicit in video foundation models using 163x less task-specific data than leading baselines.
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The technology could replace both stochastic generative depth estimation models and annotation-heavy discriminative models
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Potential limitations include handling highly complex scenes where deterministic methods might miss nuanced details
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