Masked depth modeling with sensor-validity masking: reports best RMSE on 7 of 8 masked/sparse depth benchmarks, plus a controlled encoder-init study[R]
Summary
This paper proposes masked depth modeling with sensor-validity masking, achieving best RMSE on 7 out of 8 masked/sparse depth benchmarks, with a controlled encoder-init study.
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