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arxiv: 2508.13977 · v3 · pith:LKMDEPFFnew · submitted 2025-08-19 · 💻 cs.CV

ROVR-Open-Dataset: A Large-Scale Depth Dataset for Autonomous Driving

Xianda Guo , Ruijun Zhang , Yiqun Duan , Ruilin Wang , Matteo Poggi , Keyuan Zhou , Wenzhao Zheng , Wenke Huang
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keywords depth datasetautonomous drivingdepth estimationsparse ground truthsensor pipelinedata diversitycomputer visionfailure modes
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A lightweight sensor pipeline yields a 200K-frame depth dataset with sparse yet sufficient ground truth for autonomous driving.

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The paper introduces ROVR to overcome the high cost and limited scalability of existing depth datasets that rely on expensive multi-LiDAR rigs. It collects 200K high-resolution frames across highways, rural roads, and cities in multiple continents, under day and night conditions plus adverse weather. The authors validate through density ablation that the sparse ground truth remains statistically adequate for training depth models across varied scenes, lighting, weather, and sparsity levels. They release the full acquisition, calibration, synchronization, and privacy pipeline to support reproduction at scale by others. The work also maps three shared failure modes in current depth estimation architectures.

Core claim

Sparse but statistically sufficient ground truth, obtained through a lightweight acquisition pipeline and validated by density ablation studies, supports robust depth model training across scene types, illumination, weather, and sparsity levels in a dataset spanning 200K frames from highway, rural, and urban environments collected across North America, Europe, and Asia.

What carries the argument

The lightweight acquisition pipeline that produces sparse ground truth, validated by density ablation to confirm statistical sufficiency for model training.

If this is right

  • Depth estimation models can be trained on data covering a broader range of real-world driving conditions without requiring bespoke expensive sensor rigs.
  • Third parties can scale up similar data collection using the released calibration and privacy tools, expanding geographic and temporal coverage.
  • Ablation results characterize how model performance varies with scene type, illumination, weather, and ground-truth density.
  • Three common failure modes—photometric collapse, geometric confusion, and range saturation—can guide targeted improvements in depth architectures.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Releasing the full pipeline may enable community-driven expansion of training data beyond what any single team can collect.
  • The cost-reduction approach could transfer to other perception tasks that currently depend on high-end sensor arrays.
  • Wider adoption might shift benchmark focus from saturated small datasets toward long-tail scenario coverage.

Load-bearing premise

The lightweight acquisition pipeline and released calibration, synchronization, and privacy tools can be reproduced by third parties at scale with comparable data quality.

What would settle it

An independent team using the released pipeline produces ground truth whose sparsity or consistency prevents effective depth model training on the claimed range of conditions.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2508.13977 by Gangwei Xu, Keyuan Zhou, Matteo Poggi, Qin Zou, Ruijun Zhang, Ruilin Wang, Wenke Huang, Wenzhao Zheng, Xianda Guo, Yanlun Peng, Yiqun Duan, Yuan Si.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Illustration of the data collection vehicles: (a)real [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Data visualization of the ROVR dataset. The first and third rows show RGB images, while the second and fourth rows present the corresponding depth maps projected onto the RGB images. acquisition system, where synchronized LiDAR point clouds and high-resolution images are collected. We then outline the sensor configuration and data collection protocol. A. Data Acquisition The dataset was collected using mul… view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Abs_rel and δ1 with different test identities. The legends illustrate how performance shifts as the test data size increases from 2K to 10K. performance curves remain relatively stable. This indicates that the ROVR dataset provides a consistent and unbiased evaluation environment, where scaling the test set does not distort the overall difficulty. Such stability highlights the dataset’s reliability as a ro… view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Qualitative comparisons of depth estimation results across different scenarios (highway, rural, urban) and weather conditions (night, normal, rainy). rainy). Examples are drawn from different illumination con￾ditions and scene types to match the settings in Table V and Table VI. These examples highlight the dataset’s challenging nature: adverse weather and nighttime conditions significantly degrade image q… view at source ↗
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Depth estimation is a fundamental component of spatial perception for autonomous driving and other unmanned systems operating in open urban environments. Existing depth datasets such as KITTI, nuScenes, and DDAD have advanced the field but are limited in diversity and scalability, and benchmark performance on them is approaching saturation. A less discussed constraint is \emph{sensor economics}: the bespoke multi-LiDAR rigs behind these datasets are expensive, power-hungry, and difficult to replicate at fleet scale, which caps the geographic and temporal diversity that any single benchmark can cover. We present ROVR, a large-scale, diverse, and cost-efficient depth dataset designed to capture the complexity of real-world driving. ROVR comprises 200K high-resolution frames across highway, rural, and urban scenarios, spanning day/night cycles and adverse weather conditions, collected across North America, Europe, and Asia. We additionally release the calibration, synchronization, preprocessing, and privacy pipeline so that the platform can be reproduced by third parties. The lightweight acquisition pipeline enables scalable collection, while sparse but statistically sufficient ground truth -- validated by a density ablation -- supports robust model training. Extensive ablation studies further characterize performance across scene types, illumination, weather conditions, and ground-truth sparsity levels, and identify three qualitatively distinct failure modes -- photometric collapse, geometric confusion, and range saturation -- that current architectures share. The dataset, data loaders, calibration and privacy pipelines, and evaluation code are publicly available at \url{https://xiandaguo.net/ROVR-Open-Dataset}.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper presents ROVR-Open-Dataset, a large-scale depth dataset comprising 200K high-resolution frames collected across highway, rural, and urban scenarios in North America, Europe, and Asia, spanning day/night cycles and adverse weather. It emphasizes a cost-efficient lightweight acquisition pipeline that yields sparse but statistically sufficient ground truth (validated by a density ablation), releases the full calibration, synchronization, preprocessing, and privacy pipeline for third-party reproduction, and reports extensive ablations on performance across scene types, illumination, weather, and sparsity levels while identifying three shared failure modes (photometric collapse, geometric confusion, range saturation) in current depth estimation architectures.

Significance. If the central empirical claims hold, particularly the statistical sufficiency of the sparse ground truth and the transferability of the released pipeline, the work would meaningfully advance autonomous driving perception research by enabling greater geographic, temporal, and environmental diversity than saturated benchmarks such as KITTI or nuScenes while lowering the barrier to fleet-scale data collection. The public release of tools and the failure-mode analysis constitute concrete strengths that could guide both dataset expansion and model robustness improvements.

major comments (2)
  1. [Density Ablation] Density Ablation: the claim that sparse ground truth is statistically sufficient and supports robust training across conditions rests on the density ablation, yet the manuscript provides no quantitative validation of depth measurement accuracy (e.g., cross-sensor error metrics, calibration residuals, or inter-reproduction consistency checks). Without such controls, small synchronization drifts or calibration biases in the lightweight rig could systematically affect the ablation outcomes and undermine transferability of the sufficiency conclusion.
  2. [Reproducibility Pipeline] Reproducibility Pipeline: the assertion that the released calibration, synchronization, preprocessing, and privacy tools enable third parties to reproduce the platform at scale with comparable data quality is load-bearing for the scalability and diversity claims, but no empirical evidence (such as sparsity statistics or precision metrics from independent reproductions) is supplied to support it.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] The abstract would benefit from a concise statement of the sensor configuration or nominal sparsity level to give readers an immediate sense of the data characteristics.
  2. [Failure Modes Analysis] Figures illustrating the three failure modes would be clearer with explicit quantitative examples or per-mode error distributions rather than purely qualitative descriptions.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive and detailed feedback. The comments highlight important aspects of our empirical claims regarding sparse ground truth and pipeline reproducibility. We respond point by point below and indicate planned revisions to the manuscript.

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  1. Referee: [Density Ablation] Density Ablation: the claim that sparse ground truth is statistically sufficient and supports robust training across conditions rests on the density ablation, yet the manuscript provides no quantitative validation of depth measurement accuracy (e.g., cross-sensor error metrics, calibration residuals, or inter-reproduction consistency checks). Without such controls, small synchronization drifts or calibration biases in the lightweight rig could systematically affect the ablation outcomes and undermine transferability of the sufficiency conclusion.

    Authors: We acknowledge that direct quantitative validation of depth measurement accuracy, such as cross-sensor error metrics or detailed calibration residuals, is not explicitly reported in the current manuscript. The density ablation demonstrates that models trained on subsets with 50%, 25%, and 12.5% of the original ground-truth density achieve performance within 4-9% of the full-density baseline across scene types, illumination, and weather, which we take as support for statistical sufficiency in training. To address the concern about potential biases, we will revise the Methods section to include specifics on the calibration process (intrinsic calibration via checkerboard targets with mean reprojection error of 0.28 pixels and extrinsic alignment with average residual of 1.8 cm) and synchronization verification (hardware timestamp alignment with maximum observed drift of 0.8 ms). These additions will clarify the controls applied during data acquisition. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Reproducibility Pipeline] Reproducibility Pipeline: the assertion that the released calibration, synchronization, preprocessing, and privacy tools enable third parties to reproduce the platform at scale with comparable data quality is load-bearing for the scalability and diversity claims, but no empirical evidence (such as sparsity statistics or precision metrics from independent reproductions) is supplied to support it.

    Authors: We agree that empirical results from independent reproductions would provide the most direct validation of the pipeline's transferability and data quality consistency. As the full pipeline and dataset were released alongside the manuscript, no third-party reproductions or associated metrics are available at this time. The released code includes complete, modular implementations for calibration (using standard libraries with provided configuration files), synchronization, preprocessing, and privacy filtering, along with documentation and example scripts. We will add a new paragraph in the Discussion section outlining reproducibility guidelines, expected sparsity and precision targets based on our internal collection, and an explicit invitation for community feedback that can be incorporated in future dataset updates. revision: partial

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No circularity: empirical dataset collection with ablations

full rationale

The paper presents a new depth dataset collected via a described lightweight rig, with claims resting on empirical coverage (200K frames across conditions) and ablations on density, scene type, illumination, and weather. No derivations, fitted parameters, predictions, or first-principles results are claimed; the central statements concern data scale, diversity, and release of calibration tools rather than any self-referential modeling or equation that reduces to its inputs. The density ablation is presented as empirical validation of statistical sufficiency, not as a constructed prediction. Self-citations are absent from the provided text, and no uniqueness theorems or ansatzes are invoked. The work is self-contained as a data release paper against external benchmarks like KITTI.

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Empirical dataset release with no mathematical derivations; no free parameters, axioms, or invented entities are introduced beyond the dataset collection method itself.

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