Enhancing Generalization of Depth Estimation Foundation Model via Weakly-Supervised Adaptation with Regularization

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AAAI 2026

January 24, 2026

Singapore, Singapore

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The emergence of foundation models has substantially advanced zero-shot generalization in monocular depth estimation (MDE), as exemplified by the Depth Anything series. However, given access to some data from downstream tasks, a natural question arises: can the performance of these models be further improved? To this end, we propose a parameter-efficient and weakly supervised self-training adaptation framework designed to enhance the robustness and accuracy of MDE foundation models in unseen diverse domains. We first adopt a dense self-training objective as the primary source of structural self-supervision. To further improve robustness, we introduce semantically-aware hierarchical normalization, which exploits instance-level segmentation maps to perform more stable and multi-scale structural normalization. Beyond dense supervision, we introduce a cost-efficient weak supervision in the form of pairwise ordinal depth annotations to further guide the adaptation process, which enforces informative ordinal constraints to mitigate local topological errors. Finally, a weight regularization loss is employed to anchor the LoRA updates, ensuring training stability and preserving the model's generalizable knowledge. Extensive experiments on both realistic and corrupted out-of-distribution datasets under diverse and challenging scenarios demonstrate that our method consistently improves generalization and achieves state-of-the-art performance across a wide range of benchmarks.

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