# Towards Fair and Comprehensive Comparisons for Image-Based 3D Object Detection Source: [Towards Fair and Comprehensive Comparisons for Image-Based 3D Object Detection]() Collection index: [llms.txt]() Data updated: 2025-10-26T01:51:52.116Z Authors: Xinzhu Ma, Yongtao Wang, Yinmin Zhang, Zhiyi Xia, Yuan Meng, Zhihui Wang, Haojie Li, Wanli Ouyang Published: 2023-10-09T06:43:48.000Z ## Abstract In this work, we build a modular-designed codebase, formulate strong training recipes, design an error diagnosis toolbox, and discuss current methods for image-based 3D object detection. In particular, different from other highly mature tasks, e.g., 2D object detection, the community of image-based 3D object detection is still evolving, where methods often adopt different training recipes and tricks resulting in unfair evaluations and comparisons. What is worse, these tricks may overwhelm their proposed designs in performance, even leading to wrong conclusions. To address this issue, we build a module-designed codebase and formulate unified training standards for the community. Furthermore, we also design an error diagnosis toolbox to measure the detailed characterization of detection models. Using these tools, we analyze current methods in-depth under varying settings and provide discussions for some open questions, e.g., discrepancies in conclusions on KITTI-3D and nuScenes datasets, which have led to different dominant methods for these datasets. We hope that this work will facilitate future research in image-based 3D object detection. Our codes will be released at \\url{https://github.com/OpenGVLab/3dodi} ## Recorded benchmark results A research result applies to its stated dataset, split, metric and evaluation configuration. Compare like-for-like settings, preserve the metric's unit and direction, and distinguish paper-reported results from independent reproduction. The best result recorded here is not a claim of exhaustive, current global coverage. ## Original sources and implementation [Original paper]() [PDF]()