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arxiv: 2606.31488 · v1 · pith:YIS3KPBJnew · submitted 2026-06-30 · 💻 cs.CV

DrivingDepth: Sparse-Prompted Pixel-wise Scale Correction for Driving Depth Estimation

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classification 💻 cs.CV
keywords depth estimationautonomous drivingfoundation modelssparse promptsscale correctionnuScenesgeometric consistencymetric depth
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The pith

Foundation models already encode coherent relative depth for driving, so only per-pixel scale correction from sparse LiDAR is needed.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper establishes that depth foundation models already capture geometrically coherent relative depth maps, making additional surface structure learning unnecessary. The missing element for metric depth is solely a per-pixel scale factor that maps the relative geometry to absolute coordinates. DrivingDepth uses sparse LiDAR points as prompts to compute a residual scale correction map that locally calibrates the frozen model without regenerating depth. This preserves dense visual geometry by construction and avoids the artifacts seen in methods that override the prior. On nuScenes surround-view data the approach reports improved metric accuracy alongside better edge consistency than regeneration baselines.

Core claim

Foundation models already capture geometrically coherent relative depth; no additional surface structure learning is required-only a per-pixel scale factor mapping relative geometry to metric coordinates. DrivingDepth treats sparse LiDAR as geometric prompts that locally calibrate a frozen foundation prior through residual pixel-wise scale correction, preserving dense visual geometry by construction. On nuScenes with 4-frame surround-view input, DrivingDepth achieves an AbsRel of 11.19 and an EdgeCR of 5.741, outperforming MapAnything (11.99/1.914).

What carries the argument

residual pixel-wise scale correction that treats sparse LiDAR as local geometric prompts on a frozen foundation prior

If this is right

  • Metric depth is obtained without regenerating surface structure, preserving the foundation model's geometric coherence.
  • Sparse LiDAR serves only for local calibration rather than as primary depth source.
  • On nuScenes 4-frame surround-view input the method reaches AbsRel 11.19 and EdgeCR 5.741 while beating regeneration baselines.
  • Geometric consistency improves because the dense relative depth prior is left intact.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The separation of geometry and scale may reduce the amount of dense supervision required for new driving domains.
  • Similar residual correction could be tested on other foundation-model outputs where metric scale is the primary gap.
  • Hardware requirements might shift toward fewer LiDAR beams if scale calibration proves robust.

Load-bearing premise

Foundation models already deliver pixel-aligned dense visual geometry whose only missing element is a per-pixel metric scale factor.

What would settle it

If the scale-corrected output exhibits structural artifacts on visually continuous surfaces or fails to align with dense ground-truth geometry where available, the claim that only scale is missing would be refuted.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2606.31488 by Bosheng Wang, Chi Huang, Hang Yin, Hao Li, Liang Wang, Wenhao Zhang, Xun Sun, Yuan Wang.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Comparison of DrivingDepth with DepthAnything3 [19] and MapAnything [15]. Left: DrivingDepth’s full-scene 3D reconstruction. Right: 2D depth maps and 3D point clouds. LiDAR points colored by Z-height; point clouds with projected image RGB. DrivingDepth maintains RGB-depth consistency while yielding correct scales. More demos are available at DrivingDepth-page. Abstract Dense depth estimation for autonomous… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Architecture of DrivingDepth. The frozen DA3 [19] maps surround-view images I and camera parameters π to a dense depth prior Dprior. The Geometry-Preserving Feature Adapter fuses image tokens with sparse-depth tokens and propagates them under constrained cross-view/frame attention, yielding depth-aware features {Fℓ}. The Sparse-Aware Pixel-Scale Head turns {Fℓ} and a LiDAR prompt into a per-pixel correctio… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: 2D depth comparison on nuScenes [3] (rows 1–4) and DDAD [11] (rows 5–6). Columns: RGB, MOGE-2 [30], PriorDA [33], MapAnything [15], DA3 [19], Spix, and DrivingDepth output. Monocular methods use frame-wise alignment, while multi-view methods adopt clip-wise alignment. In Spix: gray≈1, blue<1, red>1. DrivingDepth output approximates DA3 depth scaled element-wise by Spix. Input-context analysis [PITH_FULL_I… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: 3D reconstruction comparison on nuScenes [3]. Predicted point clouds (RGB-colored) and LiDAR (colored by height) rendered together. Depth outputs of all methods are aligned using ROE[29]. Left: RGB image (top) and DrivingDepth global point cloud (bottom). Right: zoomed crops comparing DA3 [19], MapAnything [15], and DrivingDepth. nuScenes scene, including colored point clouds and zoomed close-up views. The… view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Surface-normal weight trade-off visualization. Left: RGB with sparse LiDAR overlay. Top row: predicted depth under differ￾ent λnorm. Bottom row: per-pixel absolute relative error (blue=low, red=high). At λnorm=2, a visible horizontal line at the LiDAR coverage boundary indicates that the model breaks image-aligned structure in unsupervised regions when normal regularization is insufficient. λnorm AbsRel↓ δ… view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Dense depth estimation for autonomous driving faces a geometry-scale conflict: depth foundation models deliver pixel-aligned dense visual geometry without reliable metric scale, while projected LiDAR provides metric anchors that are sparse, noisy, and misaligned with image structures. Existing sparse-prompted methods incorporate LiDAR by regenerating depth from scratch, overriding the foundation model's coherent geometry and producing structural artifacts on visually continuous surfaces. Our key insight is that foundation models already capture geometrically coherent relative depth; no additional surface structure learning is required-only a per-pixel scale factor mapping relative geometry to metric coordinates. Based on this, we propose DrivingDepth, which treats sparse LiDAR as geometric prompts that locally calibrate a frozen foundation prior through residual pixel-wise scale correction, preserving dense visual geometry by construction. On nuScenes with 4-frame surround-view input, DrivingDepth achieves an AbsRel of 11.19 and an EdgeCR of 5.741, outperforming MapAnything (11.99/1.914) by simultaneously delivering SOTA metric accuracy and geometric consistency.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper claims that foundation models already provide pixel-aligned dense relative depth for driving scenes, so metric depth estimation requires only a per-pixel multiplicative scale correction (prompted by sparse LiDAR) rather than regenerating depth structure. DrivingDepth implements this by treating LiDAR points as geometric prompts to locally calibrate a frozen foundation prior via residual scale correction, thereby preserving visual geometry by construction. On nuScenes with 4-frame surround-view input, it reports AbsRel of 11.19 and EdgeCR of 5.741, outperforming MapAnything (11.99/1.914).

Significance. If the central claim holds, the work shows that sparse-prompted scale correction suffices to convert foundation-model relative depth into metric depth without structural artifacts, which could simplify pipelines that currently override foundation priors. The dual reporting of metric error and geometric consistency metrics directly tests the preservation claim.

minor comments (1)
  1. The abstract states performance numbers but does not indicate whether the scale-correction network is trained end-to-end or with frozen components beyond the foundation model; a one-sentence clarification in §3 or the abstract would help readers assess implementation scope.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the positive assessment and recommendation for minor revision. The provided summary correctly captures the core claim that foundation models already deliver pixel-aligned relative depth, so that metric conversion reduces to per-pixel scale correction prompted by sparse LiDAR.

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity

full rationale

The paper states its key insight directly as an assumption (foundation models supply coherent relative depth; only per-pixel scale correction is required) and builds the method as a direct implementation of that assumption via residual scale correction prompted by sparse LiDAR. No equations, fitted parameters renamed as predictions, or self-citation chains appear in the provided text that would reduce the claimed result to its inputs by construction. The evaluation metrics (AbsRel, EdgeCR) address the stated goals without evidence of statistical forcing or definitional equivalence. This is the normal case of a self-contained derivation.

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