Scalable Adaptation of 3D Geometric Foundation Models via Weak Supervision from Internet Video

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Authors: Zihui Gao, Ke Liu, Donny Y. Chen, Duochao Shi, Guosheng Lin, Jia-Wang Bian, Chunhua Shen, Chunhua Shen
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Abstract

Geometric foundation models show promise in 3D reconstruction. However, their progress is severely constrained by the scarcity of diverse, large-scale 3D annotations. While static-scene Internet videos are abundant and diverse, utilizing them as a scaling source for geometric learning is challenging due to the absence of ground-truth geometry and the presence of observational noise. To address this, we propose SAGE, a framework for Scalable Adaptation of GEometric foundation models from raw video streams. SAGE leverages a hierarchical mining pipeline to transform videos into training trajectories and hybrid supervisions: (1) Informative training trajectory selection; (2) Sparse Geometric Anchoring via SfM point clouds for global structural guidance; and (3) Dense Differentiable Consistency via 3D Gaussian rendering for multi-view constraints. Besides, we also introduce a regularization strategy that replays a small fraction of supervised data to prevent catastrophic forgetting. Applied to two architecturally distinct backbones, SAGE reduces Chamfer Distance on unseen benchmarks (7Scenes, TUM-RGBD, Matterport3D) by 20-42% with MV-DUSt3R and consistently improves VGGT. SAGE establishes Internet video as a viable and scalable adaptation source for geometric foundation models. Code is available at https://github.com/aim-uofa/SAGE.

Fields of Study & Subjects

3D Shape Modeling and Analysis Advanced Vision and Imaging 3D Surveying and Cultural Heritage

Publication details

Journal / source
arXiv (Cornell University)
Publication date
8 February 2026
Language
EN
Document type
Preprint