Depth Anything with Any Prior
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Abstract (arXiv)
This work presents Prior Depth Anything, a framework that combines incomplete but precise metric information in depth measurement with relative but complete geometric structures in depth prediction, generating accurate, dense, and detailed metric depth maps for any scene. To this end, we design a coarse-to-fine pipeline to progressively integrate the two complementary depth sources. First, we introduce pixel-level metric alignment and distance-aware weighting to pre-fill diverse metric priors by explicitly using depth prediction. It effectively narrows the domain gap between prior patterns, enhancing generalization across varying scenarios. Second, we develop a conditioned monocular depth estimation (MDE) model to refine the inherent noise of depth priors. By conditioning on the normalized pre-filled prior and prediction, the model further implicitly merges the two complementary depth sources. Our model showcases impressive zero-shot generalization across depth completion, super-resolution, and inpainting over 7 real-world datasets, matching or even surpassing previous task-specific methods. More importantly, it performs well on challenging, unseen mixed priors and enables test-time improvements by switching prediction models, providing a flexible accuracy-efficiency trade-off while evolving with advancements in MDE models.
Key facts. Cited by 36 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026). Builds on 49 of its 62 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 15 May 2025.
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- 2023ZoeDepth: Zero-shot Transfer by Combining Relative and Metric Depthcited by 657
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- 2021Discrete Cosine Transform Network for Guided Depth Map Super-Resolutioncited by 71
- 2021Towards Fast and Accurate Real-World Depth Super-Resolution: Benchmark Dataset and Baselinecited by 61
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- 2023Guided Depth Map Super-resolution: A Surveycited by 23
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- 2026Focusable Monocular Depth Estimation12 May 2026
- 2026Seeing Across Skies and Streets: Feedforward 3D Reconstruction from Satellite, Drone, and Ground Images8 May 2026
- 2026Enhancing Glass Surface Reconstruction via Depth Prior for Robot Navigation20 Apr 2026
- 2026Test-Time Adaptation for Height Completion via Self-Supervised ViT Features and Monocular Foundation Models2 Apr 2026
- 2026Lifting Unlabeled Internet-level Data for 3D Scene Understanding2 Apr 2026
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- 2026InfiniDepth: Arbitrary-Resolution and Fine-Grained Depth Estimation with Neural Implicit Fields6 Jan 2026
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- 2026Boosting Metric Depth Completion via Training-Free Adaptive Response Geometry28 Sep 2026
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- 2026Monocular Depth Estimation from a Single Image: Progress and Opportunities1 Sep 2026
- 2026Dense Metric Depth Completion from Sparse Direct Time-of-Flight Sensors5 Aug 2026
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