Evaluating 2D and 3D-Aware Vision Foundation Models for Vehicle Attribute Recognition

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.29929v1
• Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2026 17:51:44 GMT
• Title: Evaluating 2D and 3D-Aware Vision Foundation Models for Vehicle Attribute Recognition
• Abstract summary: This paper presents an empirical benchmark of 14 state-of-the-art 2D and 3D-aware vision foundation models.<n>We evaluate these models as frozen feature extractors via linear probing for vehicle type, make, and model recognition.<n>Our results show that standard 2D self-supervised models, particularly DINOv3, substantially outperform 3D-aware models in fine-grained tasks.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Vehicle attribute recognition is an important task in intelligent transportation systems, particularly when Automatic License Plate Recognition (ALPR) is unavailable or unreliable. Although vision foundation models have shown strong transferability across domains, their effectiveness for fine-grained vehicle classification remains underexplored. Moreover, given the inherently three-dimensional structure of vehicles, it is unclear whether emerging 3D-aware foundation models offer advantages over standard 2D architectures. This paper presents an empirical benchmark of 14 state-of-the-art 2D and 3D-aware vision foundation models. Using the challenging real-world UFPR-VeSV dataset, we evaluate these models as frozen feature extractors via linear probing for vehicle type, make, and model recognition. We further stress-test the best-performing models under few-shot learning and Out-of-Distribution (OOD) domain shifts. Our results show that standard 2D self-supervised models, particularly DINOv3, substantially outperform 3D-aware models in fine-grained tasks, achieving over 93% Macro-Accuracy for make and model recognition. However, the 3D-aware Depth Anything v2 exhibits stronger invariance to viewing angles in vehicle type classification. These findings motivate hybrid approaches that combine 2D and 3D priors for robust vehicle recognition. Our code is publicly available at https://github.com/UFPR-IPASPPR/3D-Vision-Benchmark/.

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