DA^2: Depth Anything in Any Direction
Authors: name: Haodong Li, name: Wangguangdong Zheng, name: Jing He, name: Yuhao Liu, name: Xin Lin, name: Xin Yang, name: Ying-Cong Chen, name: Chunchao Guo
Organization: Tencent Hunyuan

Panorama has a full FoV (360^circtimes180^circ), offering a more
complete visual description than perspective images. Thanks to this
characteristic, panoramic depth estimation is gaining increasing traction in 3D
vision. However, due to the scarcity of panoramic data, previous methods are
often restricted to in-domain settings, leading to poor zero-shot
generalization. Furthermore, due to the spherical distortions inherent in
panoramas, many approaches rely on perspective splitting (e.g., cubemaps),
which leads to suboptimal efficiency. To address these challenges, we propose
DA^{2}: Depth Anything in
Any Direction, an accurate, zero-shot generalizable, and
fully end-to-end panoramic depth estimator. Specifically, for scaling up
panoramic data, we introduce a data curation engine for generating high-quality
panoramic depth data from perspective, and create sim543K panoramic
RGB-depth pairs, bringing the total to sim607K. To further mitigate the
spherical distortions, we present SphereViT, which explicitly leverages
spherical coordinates to enforce the spherical geometric consistency in
panoramic image features, yielding improved performance. A comprehensive
benchmark on multiple datasets clearly demonstrates DA^{2}'s SoTA
performance, with an average 38% improvement on AbsRel over the strongest
zero-shot baseline. Surprisingly, DA^{2} even outperforms prior in-domain
methods, highlighting its superior zero-shot generalization. Moreover, as an
end-to-end solution, DA^{2} exhibits much higher efficiency over fusion-based
approaches. Both the code and the curated panoramic data will be released.
Project page: https://depth-any-in-any-dir.github.io/.