Improving Equivariance in State-of-the-Art Supervised Depth and Normal Predictors

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2309.16646v2
• Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2023 17:54:37 GMT
• Title: Improving Equivariance in State-of-the-Art Supervised Depth and Normal Predictors
• Authors: Yuanyi Zhong, Anand Bhattad, Yu-Xiong Wang, David Forsyth
• Abstract summary: We find that state-of-the-art depth and normal predictors, despite having strong performances, surprisingly do not respect equivariance. To remedy this, we propose an equivariant regularization technique, consisting of an averaging procedure and a self-consistency loss. Our approach can be applied to both CNN and Transformer architectures, does not incur extra cost during testing, and notably improves the supervised and semi-supervised learning performance.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Dense depth and surface normal predictors should possess the equivariant property to cropping-and-resizing -- cropping the input image should result in cropping the same output image. However, we find that state-of-the-art depth and normal predictors, despite having strong performances, surprisingly do not respect equivariance. The problem exists even when crop-and-resize data augmentation is employed during training. To remedy this, we propose an equivariant regularization technique, consisting of an averaging procedure and a self-consistency loss, to explicitly promote cropping-and-resizing equivariance in depth and normal networks. Our approach can be applied to both CNN and Transformer architectures, does not incur extra cost during testing, and notably improves the supervised and semi-supervised learning performance of dense predictors on Taskonomy tasks. Finally, finetuning with our loss on unlabeled images improves not only equivariance but also accuracy of state-of-the-art depth and normal predictors when evaluated on NYU-v2. GitHub link: https://github.com/mikuhatsune/equivariance

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