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GeoNeXt uses video models for efficient geometry estimation · 2 sources tracked

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Researchers have developed GeoNeXt, a novel framework that repurposes pretrained video generative models for geometry estimation tasks like depth and surface normal prediction. By formulating the problem as next-frame prediction, GeoNeXt efficiently learns from minimal labeled data, leveraging the inherent knowledge within video models. The method demonstrates strong performance in zero-shot monocular depth and surface normal estimation, even rivaling state-of-the-art discriminative approaches that use significantly more training data. AI

IMPACT This approach could lead to more data-efficient and effective AI systems for tasks requiring 3D scene understanding.

RANK_REASON The cluster describes a new research paper detailing a novel method for geometry estimation using existing video generative models.

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  1. Hugging Face Daily Papers TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    Video Generative Models as Geometry Learner

    GeoNeXt repurposes pretrained video generative models as a unified framework for geometry estimation via next-frame prediction, enabling efficient joint modeling of depth and surface normals with minimal labeled data.

  2. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Haosen Yang, Jifei Song, Zhensong Zhang, Xiatian Zhu, Jiankang Deng ·

    Video Generative Models as Geometry Learner

    arXiv:2608.28549v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent generative approaches to geometry estimation adapt pretrained image diffusion models and treat the task as image-conditioned generation. Leveraging off-the-shelf image diffusion models, they either (i) train task-specific geo…

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