arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 25

FounRef: Robust, Structure-Preserving, and Fast Metric Refinement of Frozen Monocular Foundation Priors with Sparse Anchors

FounRef is a training‑free method that refines frozen monocular foundation priors into dense metric depth by aligning them with sparse metric anchors. It validates anchors against the prior’s predictions, rejects misaligned ones, and applies a structure‑preserving solver to correct depth globally and locally while preserving fine geometry. The approach works out of the box on unseen cameras and scenes, achieving up to 24% lower depth error, 92% lower surface‑normal noise, and nearly 15× faster inference than a leading depth‑completion network.

By Dan Halperin, Mirko M\"ahlisch
arXiv AI
Sep 7

SimFuse3D: Source-Guided Target Simulation and Confidence-Guided Multi-Stage Localization Reweighting for Cross-Platform 3D Object Detection

SimFuse3D tackles cross‑platform LiDAR unsupervised domain adaptation by addressing box‑point inconsistency through source‑guided target simulation and confidence‑guided multi‑stage localization reweighting. It preserves target placement, repairs pseudo‑objects using labeled source geometry, and reweights predictions based on confidence, all during adaptation without altering the detector architecture. The method outperforms existing adaptation techniques across six cross‑platform transfers and ranks first on nuScenes‑to‑KITTI for both evaluated detectors.

By Yongchun Lin, Xinliang Zhang, Yun Zou, Zhixuan Xiao, Liang Lei, Jianya Guo, Yuqiang Zhai, Xiaofeng Wang, HaiKuo Xu, Haoang Li