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license: cc-by-nc-4.0
pipeline_tag: depth-estimation
tags:
- depth-estimation
- monocular-depth
- metric-depth
- epipolar-attention
library_name: pytorch
---
# EpiDistill
**Geometric Distillation from Rectified Stereo: Leveraging Epipolar Cues for Monocular Depth**
Jung-Hee Kim, Xiaoming Liu · Michigan State University / UNC Chapel Hill
[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.15600) · [Project page](https://jungheekim29.github.io/EpiDistill/) · [Code](https://github.com/jungheekim29/EpiDistill)
EpiDistill turns a frozen depth foundation model into a single-view metric depth
model. A multi-view teacher learns correspondence through depth-guided epipolar
attention; at inference the source views are replaced by learnable Rectified
Stereo Tokens, so the cross-view pathway survives with one image.
## Files
| file | backbone | tensors |
|---|---|---|
| `epidistill_unidepthv2.pt` | UniDepthV2 (ViT-L/14) | 401 |
| `epidistill_depthpro.pt` | DepthPro | 455 |
Each file is a plain PyTorch `state_dict` (no pickled objects beyond tensors, so
it loads with `weights_only=True`).
## These weights are a correction, not a depth network
They hold only EpiDistill's own parameters. The frozen backbone is **not**
included and must be obtained separately:
* **UniDepthV2** downloads automatically from `lpiccinelli/unidepth-v2-vitl14`.
* **DepthPro** needs `depth_pro.pt` from
[apple/ml-depth-pro](https://github.com/apple/ml-depth-pro).
## Usage
```python
from huggingface_hub import hf_hub_download
from epidistill import EpiDistillConfig, EpiDistillPredictor
path = hf_hub_download("kimjun84/EpiDistill", "epidistill_unidepthv2.pt")
predictor = EpiDistillPredictor.from_pretrained(
path, config=EpiDistillConfig(backbone="unidepthv2")
)
depth, K = predictor(rgb) # depth: (H, W) float32 metres, K: (3, 3)
```
The model code lives in the
[EpiDistill repository](https://github.com/jungheekim29/EpiDistill); install it
first.
## License
**CC BY-NC 4.0** — non-commercial. The UniDepthV2 backbone these weights correct
is itself CC BY-NC 4.0; DepthPro carries Apple's licence.
## Citation
```bibtex
@inproceedings{kim2026epidistill,
title = {Geometric Distillation from Rectified Stereo:
Leveraging Epipolar Cues for Monocular Depth},
author = {Kim, Jung-Hee and Liu, Xiaoming},
booktitle = {ECCV},
year = {2026}
}
```
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