DepthAgent: Advancing Geometry-Adaptive Depth Estimation via Sample-wise Expert Selection
Abstract
Monocular metric depth estimation has achieved strong progress with large-scale training and universal-camera modeling, yet robust deployment across diverse camera settings, such as perspective, fisheye, and panoramic images, remains challenging. Existing methods typically rely on a single depth estimator, overlooking that different models encode different camera assumptions and perform best under different input domains. In this paper, we show that depth experts exhibit strong sample-wise complementarity: model preference is highly correlated with camera geometry, and multi-model fusion brings the largest gains on difficult samples where individual experts are unreliable. Motivated by these observations, we propose , a vision-language agent for geometry-adaptive monocular depth estimation. DepthAgent treats existing depth models as frozen tools and learns to analyze scene and camera cues, invoke suitable experts through multi-turn tool utilization, and select or fuse their predictions for each input. To optimize such discrete decision-making toward dense geometric quality, we design a multi-reward reinforcement fine-tuning scheme that jointly encourages valid tool execution, camera/scene analysis, expert-selection quality, and inference efficiency. Extensive experiments across perspective, fisheye, and panoramic benchmarks show that DepthAgent consistently outperforms individual experts, fixed model fusion, and rule-based and learned routers with fewer expert calls, with strong improvements on challenging samples. The code and model will be released upon publication.
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