Morning Edition · Saturday, July 11, 2026Published at 2:01 AM EDT · New York
ZipDepth Distills a Vision Foundation Model Into a 6-Million-Parameter Depth Network
The compact model converts into plain convolutions with no custom operators, keeping its zero-shot accuracy while running in real time on GPUs, CPUs, and embedded hardware.
Researchers at the University of Bologna released ZipDepth, a network that estimates depth from a single camera image and transfers the broad knowledge of a large foundation model, Depth Anything v2-Large, into a smaller model. The result i…
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