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

arXiv:2609.33939 · cs.RO, cs.CV · Submitted 2026-09-27 · Read on arXiv

cs.RO, cs.CV

Submitted: 2026-09-27

Updated: 2026-09-27

Terminology

• Accuracy — 14× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Degeneracy — 4× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Calibration — 3× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition — 3× in this paper
• Foundation Model — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Generalization — 2× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Transformer — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Computational overhead — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Distribution Shift — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Domain Shift — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Feature Extraction — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Foundation Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Generative AI — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Optical Flow — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Zero-Shot Transfer — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes

Sources

• Propagating Sparse Depth via Depth Foundation Model for Out-of-Distribution Depth Completion
• 3D Packing for Self-Supervised Monocular Depth Estimation
• Pyramid Stereo Matching Network
• RAFT-Stereo: Multilevel Recurrent Field Transforms for Stereo Matching
• Digging Into Self-Supervised Monocular Depth Estimation
• ZoeDepth: Zero-shot Transfer by Combining Relative and Metric Depth
• Depth Anything V2
• Automatic extrinsic calibration between a camera and a 3D Lidar using 3D point and plane correspondences

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