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Depth Anything V2

Relative monocular depth from one photo. Only Small is Apache-2.0; Base and Large are non-commercial.

Size

Commercial use OK for size small: code Apache-2.0, weights Apache-2.0. Measured on our RTX 4090: 17.1 ms median, 858 MiB VRAM peak. safetensors weights, 95 MB.

License

Commercial use OK small

Code
Apache-2.0checked 26 Oct 2026
Weights small
Apache-2.0 Commercial OKchecked 26 Oct 2026
Weights base
CC-BY-NC-4.0 Non-commercialchecked 3 Nov 2026
Weights large
CC-BY-NC-4.0 Non-commercialchecked 3 Nov 2026

On our RTX 4090, measured

17.1ms median

p90 18.9 ms, fp32, batch 1, 770x518

VRAM peak
858 MiB
Status
Runs as is
Environment, 27 Oct 2026

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090, driver 580.173.02, CUDA 13.0, torch 2.14.1+cu130, Python 3.12.9, transformers==5.20.2. Baseline 848 MiB. 10 warm-up + 100 timed. Scope: predict(): pre-processing, forward pass and post-processing; input file decoded beforehand.

Accuracy

Not yet scored

Weights

safetensors

Size
95 MB
sha256
3152477ce0d8…a16b70
Download small weights

Same photos and one score threshold for every model of this task. Failures are marked.

Sizes

SizeLatencyVRAMAccuracyWeightsRunsLicense
small17.1 ms770x518858 MiBNot yet scored95 MBAs isCommercial OK
base29.0 ms770x5181.3 GiBNot yet scored372 MBAs isNon-commercial
large69.6 ms770x5182.7 GiBNot yet scored1.25 GBAs isNon-commercial

From the authors

In their words, with their numbers. Ours are in the cards at the top of this page.

Paper

Depth Anything V2

Lihe Yang, Bingyi Kang, Zilong Huang, Zhen Zhao, Xiaogang Xu, Jiashi Feng and 1 others

arXiv 2406.09414, 13 Jun 2024

Abstract

This work presents Depth Anything V2. Without pursuing fancy techniques, we aim to reveal crucial findings to pave the way towards building a powerful monocular depth estimation model. Notably, compared with V1, this version produces much finer and more robust depth predictions through three key practices: 1) replacing all labeled real images with synthetic images, 2) scaling up the capacity of our teacher model, and 3) teaching student models via the bridge of large-scale pseudo-labeled real images. Compared with the latest models built on Stable Diffusion, our models are significantly more efficient (more than 10x faster) and more accurate. We offer models of different scales (ranging from 25M to 1.3B params) to support extensive scenarios. Benefiting from their strong generalization capability, we fine-tune them with metric depth labels to obtain our metric depth models. In addition to our models, considering the limited diversity and frequent noise in current test sets, we construct a versatile evaluation benchmark with precise annotations and diverse scenes to facilitate future research.

README

Copied from the authors' repository at commit a561b84 on 3 Nov 2026. Numbers and license claims in it are theirs, not measured or checked by us. We removed badges, replaced images with links and adjusted headings.

Lihe Yang1 · Bingyi Kang2† · Zilong Huang2
Zhen Zhao · Xiaogang Xu · Jiashi Feng2 · Hengshuang Zhao1*

1HKU   2TikTok
†project lead *corresponding author

This work presents Depth Anything V2. It significantly outperforms V1 in fine-grained details and robustness. Compared with SD-based models, it enjoys faster inference speed, fewer parameters, and higher depth accuracy.

Figure teaser

News

  • 2025-01-22: Video Depth Anything has been released. It generates consistent depth maps for super-long videos (e.g., over 5 minutes).
  • 2024-12-22: Prompt Depth Anything has been released. It supports 4K resolution metric depth estimation when low-res LiDAR is used to prompt the DA models.
  • 2024-07-06: Depth Anything V2 is supported in Transformers. See the instructions for convenient usage.
  • 2024-06-25: Depth Anything is integrated into Apple Core ML Models. See the instructions (V1, V2) for usage.
  • 2024-06-22: We release smaller metric depth models based on Depth-Anything-V2-Small and Base.
  • 2024-06-20: Our repository and project page are flagged by GitHub and removed from the public for 6 days. Sorry for the inconvenience.
  • 2024-06-14: Paper, project page, code, models, demo, and benchmark are all released.

Pre-trained Models

We provide four models of varying scales for robust relative depth estimation:

ModelParamsCheckpoint
Depth-Anything-V2-Small24.8MDownload
Depth-Anything-V2-Base97.5MDownload
Depth-Anything-V2-Large335.3MDownload
Depth-Anything-V2-Giant1.3BComing soon

Usage

Prepraration
git clone https://github.com/DepthAnything/Depth-Anything-V2
cd Depth-Anything-V2
pip install -r requirements.txt

Download the checkpoints listed here and put them under the checkpoints directory.

Use our models
import cv2
import torch

from depth_anything_v2.dpt import DepthAnythingV2

DEVICE = 'cuda' if torch.cuda.is_available() else 'mps' if torch.backends.mps.is_available() else 'cpu'

model_configs = {
    'vits': {'encoder': 'vits', 'features': 64, 'out_channels': [48, 96, 192, 384]},
    'vitb': {'encoder': 'vitb', 'features': 128, 'out_channels': [96, 192, 384, 768]},
    'vitl': {'encoder': 'vitl', 'features': 256, 'out_channels': [256, 512, 1024, 1024]},
    'vitg': {'encoder': 'vitg', 'features': 384, 'out_channels': [1536, 1536, 1536, 1536]}
}

encoder = 'vitl' # or 'vits', 'vitb', 'vitg'

model = DepthAnythingV2(**model_configs[encoder])
model.load_state_dict(torch.load(f'checkpoints/depth_anything_v2_{encoder}.pth', map_location='cpu'))
model = model.to(DEVICE).eval()

raw_img = cv2.imread('your/image/path')
depth = model.infer_image(raw_img) # HxW raw depth map in numpy

If you do not want to clone this repository, you can also load our models through Transformers. Below is a simple code snippet. Please refer to the official page for more details.

  • Note 1: Make sure you can connect to Hugging Face and have installed the latest Transformers.
  • Note 2: Due to the upsampling difference between OpenCV (we used) and Pillow (HF used), predictions may differ slightly. So you are more recommended to use our models through the way introduced above.
from transformers import pipeline
from PIL import Image

pipe = pipeline(task="depth-estimation", model="depth-anything/Depth-Anything-V2-Small-hf")
image = Image.open('your/image/path')
depth = pipe(image)["depth"]
Running script on images
python run.py \
  --encoder <vits | vitb | vitl | vitg> \
  --img-path <path> --outdir <outdir> \
  [--input-size <size>] [--pred-only] [--grayscale]

Options:

  • --img-path: You can either 1) point it to an image directory storing all interested images, 2) point it to a single image, or 3) point it to a text file storing all image paths.
  • --input-size (optional): By default, we use input size 518 for model inference. You can increase the size for even more fine-grained results.
  • --pred-only (optional): Only save the predicted depth map, without raw image.
  • --grayscale (optional): Save the grayscale depth map, without applying color palette.

For example:

python run.py --encoder vitl --img-path assets/examples --outdir depth_vis
Running script on videos
python run_video.py \
  --encoder <vits | vitb | vitl | vitg> \
  --video-path assets/examples_video --outdir video_depth_vis \
  [--input-size <size>] [--pred-only] [--grayscale]

Our larger model has better temporal consistency on videos.

Gradio demo

To use our gradio demo locally:

python app.py

You can also try our online demo.

Note: Compared to V1, we have made a minor modification to the DINOv2-DPT architecture (originating from this issue). In V1, we unintentionally used features from the last four layers of DINOv2 for decoding. In V2, we use intermediate features instead. Although this modification did not improve details or accuracy, we decided to follow this common practice.

Fine-tuned to Metric Depth Estimation

Please refer to metric depth estimation.

DA-2K Evaluation Benchmark

Please refer to DA-2K benchmark.

Community Support

We sincerely appreciate all the community support for our Depth Anything series. Thank you a lot!

Acknowledgement

We are sincerely grateful to the awesome Hugging Face team (@Pedro Cuenca, @Niels Rogge, @Merve Noyan, @Amy Roberts, et al.) for their huge efforts in supporting our models in Transformers and Apple Core ML.

We also thank the DINOv2 team for contributing such impressive models to our community.

LICENSE

Depth-Anything-V2-Small model is under the Apache-2.0 license. Depth-Anything-V2-Base/Large/Giant models are under the CC-BY-NC-4.0 license.

Citation

If you find this project useful, please consider citing:

@article{depth_anything_v2,
  title={Depth Anything V2},
  author={Yang, Lihe and Kang, Bingyi and Huang, Zilong and Zhao, Zhen and Xu, Xiaogang and Feng, Jiashi and Zhao, Hengshuang},
  journal={arXiv:2406.09414},
  year={2024}
}

@inproceedings{depth_anything_v1,
  title={Depth Anything: Unleashing the Power of Large-Scale Unlabeled Data}, 
  author={Yang, Lihe and Kang, Bingyi and Huang, Zilong and Xu, Xiaogang and Feng, Jiashi and Zhao, Hengshuang},
  booktitle={CVPR},
  year={2024}
}

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