# Generalizing Monocular 3D Object Detection

Source: [Generalizing Monocular 3D Object Detection](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa7ae01e209131cea85a00>)

Collection index: [llms.txt](<https://www.sota2.com/research/llms.txt>)

Data updated: 2025-10-26T05:28:46.355Z

Authors: Abhinav Kumar

Published: 2025-08-27T06:06:18.000Z

## Abstract

Monocular 3D object detection (Mono3D) is a fundamental computer vision task that estimates an object's class, 3D position, dimensions, and orientation from a single image. Its applications, including autonomous driving, augmented reality, and robotics, critically rely on accurate 3D environmental understanding. This thesis addresses the challenge of generalizing Mono3D models to diverse scenarios, including occlusions, datasets, object sizes, and camera parameters. To enhance occlusion robustness, we propose a mathematically differentiable NMS (GrooMeD-NMS). To improve generalization to new datasets, we explore depth equivariant (DEVIANT) backbones. We address the issue of large object detection, demonstrating that it's not solely a data imbalance or receptive field problem but also a noise sensitivity issue. To mitigate this, we introduce a segmentation-based approach in bird's-eye view with dice loss (SeaBird). Finally, we mathematically analyze the extrapolation of Mono3D models to unseen camera heights and improve Mono3D generalization in such out-of-distribution settings.

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## Original sources and implementation

[Original paper](<https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19593>)

[PDF](<https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.19593.pdf>)
