Abstract
Geometric understanding supports endoscopic navigation and robotic assistance, but learning reliable endoscopic geometry faces two challenges: scarce geometric annotations and ambiguity between camera motion and tissue deformation. We present SCOPE-4D, an endoscopic 4D geometry foundation model that jointly predicts camera parameters, dense geometry, and 3D tissue trajectories from monocular RGB video in a single forward pass. Our curation and annotation pipeline constructs SCOPE-5K, a collection of approximately 5,000 clips spanning real and synthetic gastrointestinal endoscopy and laparoscopy. The collection provides rich geometric supervision and includes newly collected phantom and real-colonoscopy evaluation sets. Geometric supervised fine-tuning on SCOPE-5K learns endoscopic priors that improve camera and depth estimation. Common--Residual Motion (CRM) further constrains local deformation relative to common tissue movement. Together with geometric supervision, CRM and trajectory supervision further improve camera and depth estimation over geometric fine-tuning alone while enabling dense 3D tissue tracking. Evaluations on public and newly collected benchmarks demonstrate strong in-domain and out-of-domain geometry, superior 3D tracking, and more stable long-sequence colon reconstruction. A blinded user study further supports the perceived reconstruction quality on real clinical video. Together, these results demonstrate the value of large-scale endoscopic supervision and motion constraints for joint geometry estimation and tissue tracking.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.02343
