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Main Authors: Yue, Yuanwen, Das, Anurag, Engelmann, Francis, Tang, Siyu, Lenssen, Jan Eric
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.20229
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author Yue, Yuanwen
Das, Anurag
Engelmann, Francis
Tang, Siyu
Lenssen, Jan Eric
author_facet Yue, Yuanwen
Das, Anurag
Engelmann, Francis
Tang, Siyu
Lenssen, Jan Eric
contents Current visual foundation models are trained purely on unstructured 2D data, limiting their understanding of 3D structure of objects and scenes. In this work, we show that fine-tuning on 3D-aware data improves the quality of emerging semantic features. We design a method to lift semantic 2D features into an efficient 3D Gaussian representation, which allows us to re-render them for arbitrary views. Using the rendered 3D-aware features, we design a fine-tuning strategy to transfer such 3D awareness into a 2D foundation model. We demonstrate that models fine-tuned in that way produce features that readily improve downstream task performance in semantic segmentation and depth estimation through simple linear probing. Notably, though fined-tuned on a single indoor dataset, the improvement is transferable to a variety of indoor datasets and out-of-domain datasets. We hope our study encourages the community to consider injecting 3D awareness when training 2D foundation models. Project page: https://ywyue.github.io/FiT3D.
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spellingShingle Improving 2D Feature Representations by 3D-Aware Fine-Tuning
Yue, Yuanwen
Das, Anurag
Engelmann, Francis
Tang, Siyu
Lenssen, Jan Eric
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Current visual foundation models are trained purely on unstructured 2D data, limiting their understanding of 3D structure of objects and scenes. In this work, we show that fine-tuning on 3D-aware data improves the quality of emerging semantic features. We design a method to lift semantic 2D features into an efficient 3D Gaussian representation, which allows us to re-render them for arbitrary views. Using the rendered 3D-aware features, we design a fine-tuning strategy to transfer such 3D awareness into a 2D foundation model. We demonstrate that models fine-tuned in that way produce features that readily improve downstream task performance in semantic segmentation and depth estimation through simple linear probing. Notably, though fined-tuned on a single indoor dataset, the improvement is transferable to a variety of indoor datasets and out-of-domain datasets. We hope our study encourages the community to consider injecting 3D awareness when training 2D foundation models. Project page: https://ywyue.github.io/FiT3D.
title Improving 2D Feature Representations by 3D-Aware Fine-Tuning
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.20229