arXiv:2503. 19947v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Generalized metric depth understanding is critical for precise vision-guided robotics, which current state-of-the-art (SOTA) vision-encoders do not support.
The paper introduces NAIMA, a guided depth super‑resolution framework that leverages global contextual semantic priors from pretrained vision transformer token embeddings. Its Guided Token Attention (GTA) module uses depth encodings as queries to attend over semantic tokens, with a zero‑initialized gate controlling the influence of semantic evidence. NAIMA achieves competitive in‑distribution performance while delivering superior cross‑dataset generalization without relying on decoded priors or auxiliary objectives.
arXiv:2608.20788v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep learning-based Multi-View Stereo (MVS) has advanced significantly but often generalizes poorly to unseen scenes, particularly in occluded areas or...
CrossDepth introduces geometry-constrained attention for multi-view surround depth estimation, addressing cross-image inconsistencies caused by varying camera intrinsics and limited receptive fields. The method conditions features on per-pixel camera-aware ray embeddings and extends pixel context via cross-image attention limited to geometrically plausible regions. Trained self-supervised with photometric consistency, it achieves better depth accuracy and consistency on DDAD and nuScenes compared to existing self-supervised approaches.
The paper introduces Epipolar Distillation (EpiDistill), a method that transfers scale‑aware geometric priors from multi‑view models to monocular depth foundation models using Rectified Stereo Tokens. By preserving epipolar attention patterns, the single‑view model maintains geometric consistency without needing multi‑view inputs during inference. Experiments show significant improvements in zero‑shot metric depth estimation on challenging datasets such as ETH3D and DIODE, and the approach consistently boosts performance of state‑of‑the‑art ViT‑based models like UniDepthV2 and DepthPro.
The paper introduces an Attention-Driven Complementarity Resampling framework to enhance cross-modality object detection. It employs a shared channel spatial attention mechanism that exchanges semantic masks between modalities, encouraging the backbone to learn generalized features. Additionally, a learnable channel competition module samples and aggregates features channel‑wise, improving robustness and achieving competitive results on multiple datasets.
arXiv:2608. 02092v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Deep multimodal fusion for object detection has demonstrated good performance through mining modal characteristics.
DXPR is a depth‑based cross‑modal place recognition framework that matches monocular camera queries to a LiDAR map using a single vision foundation model backbone. By converting both modalities into a unified depth image representation, DXPR learns modality‑invariant global descriptors without modality‑specific encoders. A geometry‑aware overlap miner refines pairwise metric learning by computing pixel‑level overlap scores, and extensive tests on KITTI and Boreas show strong performance across seasons, weather, and day/night conditions, outperforming prior CMPR baselines.
arXiv:2606. 29136v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Event cameras capture sparse brightness changes with high temporal resolution and high dynamic range, compensating for the deficiencies of the conventional RGB frames.
The paper introduces Feature Interaction Network (FINE), a lightweight semantic alignment module for feature fusion networks in object detectors. FINE refines low‑level features using high‑level contextual guidance through cross‑level attention, and employs Alignment‑Aware Token Sampling to reduce attention complexity. The resulting spatial‑channel modulation map selectively enhances semantically relevant pixels while preserving sub‑pixel localization, leading to improved detection accuracy with minimal computational overhead.
arXiv:2601. 22054v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Scaling has powered recent advances in vision foundation models, yet extending this paradigm to metric depth estimation remains challenging due to heterogeneous sensor noise, camera-dependent biases, and metric ambiguity in noisy cross-source 3D data.
arXiv:2608.06205v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Multispectral object detection combines visible and thermal imagery to improve perception under challenging illumination and environmental conditio...