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What Does the Encoder Actually Decide? A Controlled Comparison of Vision Backbones on Joint Tree Segmentation and Stereo Depth

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arXiv:2609.13232v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A robot pruning trees needs two facts per pixel: whether it belongs to a tree, and its distance. Both are usually obtained via task heads attached to a vision backbone chosen by reputation rather than measurement. Holding dataset, decoders, losses, sc…

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  1. 2026-09-15 04:00 · arXiv cs.CV
    What Does the Encoder Actually Decide? A Controlled Comparison of Vision Backbones on Joint Tree Segmentation and Stereo Depth

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