# Do More With What You Have: Transferring Depth-Scale from Labeled to Unlabeled Domains

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.07662 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2303.07662/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 42 of its 60 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 14 Mar 2023.

## Builds on (most cited first, 30 of 42)

- [Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognition](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1512.03385/) (2015)
- [MobileNetV2: Inverted Residuals and Linear Bottlenecks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1801.04381/) (2018)
- [nuScenes: A multimodal dataset for autonomous driving](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1903.11027/) (2019)
- [Towards Robust Monocular Depth Estimation: Mixing Datasets for Zero-shot Cross-dataset Transfer](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1907.01341/) (2019)
- [Depth Map Prediction from a Single Image using a Multi-Scale Deep Network](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1406.2283/) (2014)
- [Unsupervised Learning of Depth and Ego-Motion from Video](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1704.07813/) (2017)
- [Deep Ordinal Regression Network for Monocular Depth Estimation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1806.02446/) (2018)
- [AdaBins: Depth Estimation using Adaptive Bins](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2011.14141/) (2020)
- [3D Packing for Self-Supervised Monocular Depth Estimation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1905.02693/) (2019)
- [From Big to Small: Multi-Scale Local Planar Guidance for Monocular Depth Estimation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1907.10326/) (2019)
- [Unsupervised CNN for Single View Depth Estimation: Geometry to the Rescue](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1603.04992/) (2016)
- [End-to-End Learning of Geometry and Context for Deep Stereo Regression](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1703.04309/) (2017)
- [Virtual Worlds as Proxy for Multi-Object Tracking Analysis](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1605.06457/) (2016)
- [Sparsity Invariant CNNs](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1708.06500/) (2017)
- [Unsupervised Scale-consistent Depth and Ego-motion Learning from Monocular Video](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1908.10553/) (2019)
- [The Temporal Opportunist: Self-Supervised Multi-Frame Monocular Depth](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2104.14540/) (2021)
- [Hierarchical Multi-Scale Attention for Semantic Segmentation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2005.10821/) (2020)
- [Depth from Videos in the Wild: Unsupervised Monocular Depth Learning from Unknown Cameras](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1904.04998/) (2019)
- [Depth Prediction Without the Sensors: Leveraging Structure for Unsupervised Learning from Monocular Videos](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1811.06152/) (2018)
- [Learning Depth from Monocular Videos using Direct Methods](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1712.00175/) (2017)
- [Self-Supervised Monocular Depth Hints](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1909.09051/) (2019)
- [Multimodal End-to-End Autonomous Driving](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1906.03199/) (2019)
- [Semi-Supervised Deep Learning for Monocular Depth Map Prediction](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1702.02706/) (2017)
- [Unsupervised Monocular Depth Learning in Dynamic Scenes](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2010.16404/) (2020)
- [SurroundDepth: Entangling Surrounding Views for Self-Supervised Multi-Camera Depth Estimation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2204.03636/) (2022)
- [T2Net: Synthetic-to-Realistic Translation for Solving Single-Image Depth Estimation Tasks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1808.01454/) (2018)
- [Learning Monocular Depth by Distilling Cross-domain Stereo Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1808.06586/) (2018)
- [Geometry-Aware Symmetric Domain Adaptation for Monocular Depth Estimation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1904.01870/) (2019)
- [Towards Real-Time Monocular Depth Estimation for Robotics: A Survey](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2111.08600/) (2021)
- [Toward Hierarchical Self-Supervised Monocular Absolute Depth Estimation for Autonomous Driving Applications](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2004.05560/) (2020)

## Built on by (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [A Simple yet Effective Test-Time Adaptation for Zero-Shot Monocular Metric Depth Estimation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2412.14103/) (2024)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Transferring the absolute depth prediction capabilities of an estimator to a new domain is a task with significant real-world applications. This task is specifically challenging when images from the new domain are collected without ground-truth depth measurements, and possibly with sensors of different intrinsics. To overcome such limitations, a recent zero-shot solution was trained on an extensive training dataset and encoded the various camera intrinsics. Other solutions generated synthetic data with depth labels that matched the intrinsics of the new target data to enable depth-scale transfer between the domains. In this work we present an alternative solution that can utilize any existing synthetic or real dataset, that has a small number of images annotated with ground truth depth labels. Specifically, we show that self-supervised depth estimators result in up-to-scale predictions that are linearly correlated to their absolute depth values across the domain, a property that we model in this work using a single scalar. In addition, aligning the field-of-view of two datasets prior to training, results in a common linear relationship for both domains. We use this observed property to transfer the depth-scale from source datasets that have absolute depth labels to new target datasets that lack these measurements, enabling absolute depth predictions in the target domain. The suggested method was successfully demonstrated on the KITTI, DDAD and nuScenes datasets, while using other existing real or synthetic source datasets, that have a different field-of-view, other image style or structural content, achieving comparable or better accuracy than other existing methods that do not use target ground-truth depths.