Model Details: DPT-Large (also known as MiDaS 3.0)
Dense Prediction Transformer (DPT) model trained on 1.4 million images for monocular depth estimation.
It was introduced in the paper Vision Transformers for Dense Prediction by Ranftl et al. (2021) and first released in this repository.
DPT uses the Vision Transformer (ViT) as backbone and adds a neck + head on top for monocular depth estimation.
The model card has been written in combination by the Hugging Face team and Intel.
You can use the raw model for zero-shot monocular depth estimation. See the model hub to look for fine-tuned versions on a task that interests you.
Primary intended users
Anyone doing monocular depth estimation
Out-of-scope uses
This model in most cases will need to be fine-tuned for your particular task. The model should not be used to intentionally create hostile or alienating environments for people.
How to use
The easiest is leveraging the pipeline API:
from transformers import pipeline
pipe = pipeline(task="depth-estimation", model="Intel/dpt-large")
result = pipe(image)
result["depth"]
In case you want to implement the entire logic yourself, here's how to do that for zero-shot depth estimation on an image:
For more code examples, we refer to the documentation.
Factors
Description
Groups
Multiple datasets compiled together
Instrumentation
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Environment
Inference completed on Intel Xeon Platinum 8280 CPU @ 2.70GHz with 8 physical cores and an NVIDIA RTX 2080 GPU.
Card Prompts
Model deployment on alternate hardware and software will change model performance
Metrics
Description
Model performance measures
Zero-shot Transfer
Decision thresholds
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Approaches to uncertainty and variability
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Training and Evaluation Data
Description
Datasets
The dataset is called MIX 6, and contains around 1.4M images. The model was initialized with ImageNet-pretrained weights.
Motivation
To build a robust monocular depth prediction network
Preprocessing
"We resize the image such that the longer side is 384 pixels and train on random square crops of size 384. ... We perform random horizontal flips for data augmentation." See Ranftl et al. (2021) for more details.
Quantitative Analyses
Model
Training set
DIW WHDR
ETH3D AbsRel
Sintel AbsRel
KITTI δ>1.25
NYU δ>1.25
TUM δ>1.25
DPT - Large
MIX 6
10.82 (-13.2%)
0.089 (-31.2%)
0.270 (-17.5%)
8.46 (-64.6%)
8.32 (-12.9%)
9.97 (-30.3%)
DPT - Hybrid
MIX 6
11.06 (-11.2%)
0.093 (-27.6%)
0.274 (-16.2%)
11.56 (-51.6%)
8.69 (-9.0%)
10.89 (-23.2%)
MiDaS
MIX 6
12.95 (+3.9%)
0.116 (-10.5%)
0.329 (+0.5%)
16.08 (-32.7%)
8.71 (-8.8%)
12.51 (-12.5%)
MiDaS [30]
MIX 5
12.46
0.129
0.327
23.90
9.55
14.29
Li [22]
MD [22]
23.15
0.181
0.385
36.29
27.52
29.54
Li [21]
MC [21]
26.52
0.183
0.405
47.94
18.57
17.71
Wang [40]
WS [40]
19.09
0.205
0.390
31.92
29.57
20.18
Xian [45]
RW [45]
14.59
0.186
0.422
34.08
27.00
25.02
Casser [5]
CS [8]
32.80
0.235
0.422
21.15
39.58
37.18
Table 1. Comparison to the state of the art on monocular depth estimation. We evaluate zero-shot cross-dataset transfer according to the
protocol defined in [30]. Relative performance is computed with respect to the original MiDaS model [30]. Lower is better for all metrics. (Ranftl et al., 2021)
Ethical Considerations
Description
Data
The training data come from multiple image datasets compiled together.
Human life
The model is not intended to inform decisions central to human life or flourishing. It is an aggregated set of monocular depth image datasets.
Mitigations
No additional risk mitigation strategies were considered during model development.
Risks and harms
The extent of the risks involved by using the model remain unknown.
Use cases
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Caveats and Recommendations
Users (both direct and downstream) should be made aware of the risks, biases and limitations of the model. There are no additional caveats or recommendations for this model.
