LeAD-M3D: Leveraging Asymmetric Distillation for Real-time Monocular 3D Detection

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2512.05663v1
• Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2025 12:08:18 GMT
• Title: LeAD-M3D: Leveraging Asymmetric Distillation for Real-time Monocular 3D Detection
• Authors: Johannes Meier, Jonathan Michel, Oussema Dhaouadi, Yung-Hsu Yang, Christoph Reich, Zuria Bauer, Stefan Roth, Marc Pollefeys, Jacques Kaiser, Daniel Cremers,
• Abstract summary: LeAD-M3D is a state-of-the-art monocular 3D detector that achieves state-of-the-art accuracy and real-time inference without extra modalities.<n>Asymmetric Augmentation Denoising Distillation (A2D2) transfers geometric knowledge from a clean-image teacher to a mixup-noised student.<n>3D-aware Consistent Matching (CM3D) improves prediction-to-ground truth assignment.<n> Confidence-Gated 3D Inference (CGI3D) accelerates detection by restricting expensive 3D regression to top-confidence regions.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Real-time monocular 3D object detection remains challenging due to severe depth ambiguity, viewpoint shifts, and the high computational cost of 3D reasoning. Existing approaches either rely on LiDAR or geometric priors to compensate for missing depth, or sacrifice efficiency to achieve competitive accuracy. We introduce LeAD-M3D, a monocular 3D detector that achieves state-of-the-art accuracy and real-time inference without extra modalities. Our method is powered by three key components. Asymmetric Augmentation Denoising Distillation (A2D2) transfers geometric knowledge from a clean-image teacher to a mixup-noised student via a quality- and importance-weighted depth-feature loss, enabling stronger depth reasoning without LiDAR supervision. 3D-aware Consistent Matching (CM3D) improves prediction-to-ground truth assignment by integrating 3D MGIoU into the matching score, yielding more stable and precise supervision. Finally, Confidence-Gated 3D Inference (CGI3D) accelerates detection by restricting expensive 3D regression to top-confidence regions. Together, these components set a new Pareto frontier for monocular 3D detection: LeAD-M3D achieves state-of-the-art accuracy on KITTI and Waymo, and the best reported car AP on Rope3D, while running up to 3.6x faster than prior high-accuracy methods. Our results demonstrate that high fidelity and real-time efficiency in monocular 3D detection are simultaneously attainable - without LiDAR, stereo, or geometric assumptions.

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