Abstract
Analog video transmission (VTX) remains widespread in FPV drones due to low latency, weight and low cost. However analog VTX suffers from complex spatially structured image degradation which differ fundamentally from digital image corruption (e.g. AWGN) used in standard training augmentation. This work shows that this type of noise severely degrades the accuracy of Depth Anything 3 (DA3), a state-of-the-art feed forward visual geometry foundation model. To address this gap, we present AnalogDepth, a parameter-efficient training pipeline that adapts DA3 to analog FPV imagery using student-teacher knowledge distillation with Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) injected into the DINOv2 backbone. Rather than synthesizing noise analytically, we build a noise bank from static FPV recordings under diverse conditions and compare real-noise injection against PSD-matched Gaussian synthesis and AWGN as baselines. Experiments on six real FPV flight sequences across three indoor scenes show that training with our noise bank consistently reduces per-frame depth RMSE and 3D reconstruction Chamfer distance compared to the pretrained DA3 baseline and both Gaussian noise variants. These results demonstrate that replicating the spatial structure of real analog transmission noise is critical for effective adaptation.
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APA 7
Amorim, A., & Proença, P. F. (2026). AnalogDepth: Multi-view Geometry from FPV drones under Analog Video Transmission. https://omanscience.com/en/articles/analogdepth-multi-view-geometry-from-fpv-drones-under-analog-video-transmission
MLA 9
Amorim, André, and Pedro F. Proença. "AnalogDepth: Multi-view Geometry from FPV drones under Analog Video Transmission." https://omanscience.com/en/articles/analogdepth-multi-view-geometry-from-fpv-drones-under-analog-video-transmission.
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Amorim, André, and Pedro F. Proença. 2026. "AnalogDepth: Multi-view Geometry from FPV drones under Analog Video Transmission." https://omanscience.com/en/articles/analogdepth-multi-view-geometry-from-fpv-drones-under-analog-video-transmission.
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Amorim, A. and Proença, P. F. (2026) 'AnalogDepth: Multi-view Geometry from FPV drones under Analog Video Transmission', Available at: https://omanscience.com/en/articles/analogdepth-multi-view-geometry-from-fpv-drones-under-analog-video-transmission.
Vancouver
Amorim A, Proença PF. AnalogDepth: Multi-view Geometry from FPV drones under Analog Video Transmission. https://omanscience.com/en/articles/analogdepth-multi-view-geometry-from-fpv-drones-under-analog-video-transmission
IEEE
A. Amorim, and P. F. Proença, "AnalogDepth: Multi-view Geometry from FPV drones under Analog Video Transmission," https://omanscience.com/en/articles/analogdepth-multi-view-geometry-from-fpv-drones-under-analog-video-transmission.