DINOcular is a self‑supervised framework that learns joint visuospatial representations from RGB‑D observations. It fuses depth‑derived geometric priors with a visual backbone using inter‑patch and intra‑patch fusion, allowing the model to encode both appearance and spatial structure efficiently. The resulting representation improves 3D awareness on multiple geometry benchmarks while staying competitive on standard RGB‑D semantic segmentation tasks.
By Farkhat Almukhamedov, Sami Azirar, Hermann Blum
arXiv:2608.23850v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Foundational visual features such as DINO have played a critical role across modern computer vision, and have recently become key components in multi-v...
By Jeong-gi Kwak, Sho Kagami, Yuki Ono, Kwang Moo Yi
arXiv:2601.18923v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Depth sensors are widely deployed across robotic platforms, and advances in fast, high-fidelity depth simulation have enabled robotic policie...
By Manthan Patel, Jonas Frey, Mayank Mittal, Fan Yang, Alexander Hansson, Amir Bar, Cesar Cadena, Marco Hutter
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.
By Paul Koch, J\"org Kr\"uger
GaussianDS introduces a depth‑supervised framework for 3D Gaussian Splatting that jointly optimizes RGB appearance, depth, and compact semantics from scratch. By arranging multi‑view images into a pose‑aware pseudo‑video and propagating view‑consistent masks via SAM2, the method aligns semantic lifting with geometric cues, using depth supervision and edge‑aware refinement to curb semantic drift and boundary leakage. The approach achieves state‑of‑the‑art performance on LERF and 3D‑OVS benchmarks while preserving high‑fidelity reconstruction and enabling downstream tasks such as 3D object removal.
By Yufei Zhang, Chenlu Zhan, Hongwei Wang
arXiv:2512. 16919v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Perceiving and reconstructing 3D scene geometry from visual inputs is crucial for autonomous driving.
By Sicheng Zuo, Zixun Xie, Wenzhao Zheng, Shaoqing Xu, Fang Li, Shengyin Jiang, Long Chen, Zhi-Xin Yang, Jiwen Lu