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TLDR

A FiftyOne plug-in that runs Meta's VGGT-Omega model on video datasets to produce per-frame depth maps and merged 3D point clouds in one forward pass.

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    Inputs
      Video samples
      FiftyOne dataset
    Outputs
      Per-frame depth heatmaps
      Merged 3D fo3d scene
      Scene embeddings
    Use Cases
      Visualize depth in FiftyOne
      Build 3D scene viewer
      Nearest-neighbour scene search
    Tech Stack
      Python
      FiftyOne
      Open3D
      PyTorch
      CUDA
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What do people build with it?

USE CASE 1

Generate per-frame depth heatmaps for every video in a FiftyOne dataset

USE CASE 2

Build a side by side viewer that lines up depth overlays with a merged 3D point cloud

USE CASE 3

Compute 2048-dim scene embeddings and run nearest-neighbour scene search

USE CASE 4

Run CVPR 2026 VGGT-Omega inference from a notebook with one apply_model call

What is it built with?

PythonFiftyOnePyTorchOpen3DCUDA

How does it compare?

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How do you get it running?

Difficulty · hard Time to first run · 1day+

Needs an A100-class GPU plus FiftyOne, Open3D, and the VGGT-Omega checkpoint installed before any inference works.

In plain English

This repository packages a research model called VGGT-Omega as a plug-in for FiftyOne, an open-source tool for managing computer-vision datasets. VGGT-Omega itself was published at CVPR 2026 by Meta AI and Oxford VGG, given a video, it estimates a depth map for every frame and merges them into a single 3D point cloud of the filmed scene, all in one forward pass through the network. The README points out that this skips the older multi-step pipelines of iterative refinement or Structure-from-Motion. What you actually get for each video in your dataset is two things. Per-frame depth maps land under sample.frames[i]["depth_map"] as FiftyOne Heatmaps you can overlay in the FiftyOne App, and the merged 3D scene lands under sample["scene_3d"] as a path to a .fo3d file you can open in FiftyOne's built-in 3D viewer. To use it, you pip install the model code from Meta's facebookresearch/vggt-omega repo plus a handful of dependencies including fiftyone, open3d, einops, safetensors, huggingface_hub, and opencv-python. Then you register this GitHub repo as a zoo source and call foz.load_zoo_model to load the facebook/VGGT-Omega-1B-512 checkpoint with parameters like confidence_threshold, video_sample_fps, max_frames, preprocessing_mode, and image_resolution. The README gives concrete A100 memory benchmarks for the max_frames setting: about 7GB at 16 frames up to about 21GB at 200 frames. The actual inference call is dataset.apply_model(model, "depth_map") after compute_metadata() so the loader knows each video's frame rate. The README then walks through building a grouped dataset that lines up the depth overlays and the merged 3D point cloud side by side, so when you launch the FiftyOne App you can switch between a video slice (showing depth heatmaps over each frame) and a threed slice (showing the merged scene in the 3D viewer). A second checkpoint, VGGT-Omega-1B-256-Text, also produces a 2048-dimensional scene-level embedding alongside the depth output, which the README shows being indexed with fiftyone.brain.compute_similarity for nearest-neighbour scene search. The repo ends with a BibTeX citation for the underlying CVPR 2026 paper.

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Prompt 1
Show me the foz.load_zoo_model call to load facebook/VGGT-Omega-1B-512 with my preferred max_frames
Prompt 2
Estimate GPU memory I need on an A100 to process 200-frame videos with VGGT-Omega
Prompt 3
Write a script that applies VGGT-Omega to a FiftyOne dataset and launches the App grouped view
Prompt 4
Compare the VGGT-Omega-1B-256-Text checkpoint to the 512 checkpoint for scene search use cases

Frequently asked questions

What is vggt_omega?

A FiftyOne plug-in that runs Meta's VGGT-Omega model on video datasets to produce per-frame depth maps and merged 3D point clouds in one forward pass.

What language is vggt_omega written in?

Mainly Python. The stack also includes Python, FiftyOne, PyTorch.

How hard is vggt_omega to set up?

Setup difficulty is rated hard, with roughly 1day+ to a first successful run.

Who is vggt_omega for?

Mainly researcher.

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