{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/inspacetype-reconsider-space-type-in-indoor","title":"InSpaceType: Reconsider Space Type in Indoor Monocular Depth Estimation","arxiv_id":"2309.13516","date":"2023-09-24","proceeding":null,"authors":["Cho-Ying Wu","Quankai Gao","Chin-Cheng Hsu","Te-Lin Wu","Jing-Wen Chen","Ulrich Neumann"],"abstract":"Indoor monocular depth estimation has attracted increasing research interest. Most previous works have been focusing on methodology, primarily experimenting with NYU-Depth-V2 (NYUv2) Dataset, and only concentrated on the overall performance over the test set. However, little is known regarding robustness and generalization when it comes to applying monocular depth estimation methods to real-world scenarios where highly varying and diverse functional \\textit{space types} are present such as library or kitchen. A study for performance breakdown into space types is essential to realize a pretrained model's performance variance. To facilitate our investigation for robustness and address limitations of previous works, we collect InSpaceType, a high-quality and high-resolution RGBD dataset for general indoor environments. We benchmark 12 recent methods on InSpaceType and find they severely suffer from performance imbalance concerning space types, which reveals their underlying bias. We extend our analysis to 4 other datasets, 3 mitigation approaches, and the ability to generalize to unseen space types. Our work marks the first in-depth investigation of performance imbalance across space types for indoor monocular depth estimation, drawing attention to potential safety concerns for model deployment without considering space types, and further shedding light on potential ways to improve robustness. See \\url{https://depthcomputation.github.io/DepthPublic} for data and the supplementary document. The benchmark list on the GitHub project page keeps updates for the lastest monocular depth estimation methods.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.13516v2","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2309.13516v2.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"inspacetype-reconsider-space-type-in-indoor","repo_url":"https://github.com/DepthComputation/InSpaceType_Benchmark","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"pytorch","reach":null}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"depth-estimation","task_name":"Depth Estimation"},{"task_slug":"indoor-monocular-depth-estimation","task_name":"Indoor Monocular Depth Estimation"},{"task_slug":"monocular-depth-estimation","task_name":"Monocular Depth Estimation"}],"methods":[{"method_slug":null,"method_name":"Library"}],"datasets_introduced":[{"slug":"inspacetype","name":"InSpaceType","full_name":"Indoor Space Type Dataset for Monocular Depth Analysis"}],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}