Vision-language-action models and world models for minimally invasive surgery need large-scale 3D supervision, yet public surgical datasets are largely ex-vivo or simulated and annotate either tissue or instruments, leaving tool-tissue contact regions unmarked. SurgTAP-3D converts uncalibrated monocular surgical videos into pseudo-scale camera poses, depth and 2D/3D point trajectories through contact-region prompting, active-tool segmentation, dynamic bundle adjustment and global 4D refinement, gathering 4,549 action clips, 519,642 frames and about 1.38 million trajectories across robotic and manual procedures. On the SurgT, SurgPose and STIR benchmarks, the pipeline reaches an average AJ3D of 56.57 for 3D tracking, above the compared methods in the table.
Vision-language-action models and world models for minimally invasive surgery need large-scale 3D supervision, yet public surgical datasets are largely ex-vivo or simulated and annotate either tissue or instruments, leaving tool-tissue contact regions unmarked. SurgTAP-3D converts uncalibrated monocular surgical videos into pseudo-scale camera poses, depth and 2D/3D point trajectories through contact-region prompting, active-tool segmentation, dynamic bundle adjustment and global 4D refinement, gathering 4,549 action clips, 519,642 frames and about 1.38 million trajectories across robotic and manual procedures. On the SurgT, SurgPose and STIR benchmarks, the pipeline reaches an average AJ3D of 56.57 for 3D tracking, above the compared methods in the table.