DepthMaster: Taming Diffusion Models for Monocular Depth Estimation

Ziyang Song*, Zerong Wang*, Bo Li, Hao Zhang, Ruijie Zhu, Li Liu, Peng-Tao Jiang†, Tianzhu Zhang†,
*Equal Contribution, †Corresponding Author
University of Science and Technology of China, vivo Mobile Communication Co., Ltd.
Arxiv 2025

We present DepthMaster, a tamed single-step diffusion model that customizes generative features in diffusion models to suit the discriminative depth estimation task. We introduce a Feature Alignment module to mitigate overfitting to texture and a Fourier Enhancement module to refine fine-grained details. DepthMaster exhibits state-of-the-art zero-shot performance and superior detail preservation ability, surpassing other diffusion-based methods across various datasets.

🎓 Citation

Please cite our paper:

@article{song2025depthmaster,
  title={DepthMaster: Taming Diffusion Models for Monocular Depth Estimation},
  author={Song, Ziyang and Wang, Zerong and Li, Bo and Zhang, Hao and Zhu, Ruijie and Liu, Li and Jiang, Peng-Tao and Zhang, Tianzhu},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.02576},
  year={2025}
}

Acknowledgements

The code is based on Marigold.

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