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[Submitted on 2 Sep 2026] Title:What Does the Encoder Actually Decide? A Controlled Comparison of Vision Backbones on Joint Tree Segmentation and Stereo Depth View a PDF of the paper titled What Does the Encoder Actually Decide? A Controlled Comparison of Vision Backbones on Joint Tree Segmentation and Stereo Depth, by Yida Lin and 4 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) 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, schedule, and evaluation fixed, we ask: how much does the encoder choice change joint semantic segmentation and stereo depth on thin vegetation? We build a hard parameter-sharing network with one encoder feeding both branches, swapping only the encoder without downstream retuning. We evaluate [N] encoders across [M] architecture families (CNNs, transformers, hybrids, MLP-mixers, state-space models) near a ~25M budget, trained from scratch. Depth is evaluated on tree pixels only; segmentation uses boundary F1 and background IoU to prevent "label-everything-tree" shortcuts. Three findings stand out. First, the strongest encoders are convolutional and hybrid, not transformers: [BestEncoder] leads with [MIoU] segmentation mIoU and [Delta] depth $\delta_1$, while [X] of [Y] plain vision transformers collapse when trained from scratch. Second, parameter count does not predict quality --- [SmallEncoder] at only [P]M parameters outranks models two orders of magnitude larger. Third, segmentation and depth rankings agree strongly (Spearman $\rho$ = [RhoValue]), showing no task conflict. Finally, [K] of [N] encoders collapse to degenerate all-tree segmentation --- exposed by boundary F1 but hidden by region IoU. Subjects: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV) Cite as: arXiv:2609.13232 [cs.CV] (or arXiv:2609.13232v1 [cs.CV] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2609.13232 arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite Submission history From: Yida Lin [view email] [v1] Wed, 2 Sep 2026 11:21:41 UTC (2,419 KB) Full-text links: Access Paper: View a PDF of the paper titled What Does the Encoder Actually Decide? A Controlled Comparison of Vision Backbones on Joint Tree Segmentation and Stereo Depth, by Yida Lin and 4 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) TeX Source view license Current browse context: cs.CV new | recent | 2026-09 Change to browse by: cs References & Citations NASA ADS Google Scholar Semantic Scholar Loading... Data provided by: Bibliographic Tools Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer Toggle Bibliographic Explorer (What is the Explorer?) Connected Papers Toggle Connected Papers (What is Connected Papers?) Litmaps Toggle Litmaps (What is Litmaps?) scite.ai Toggle scite Smart Citations (What are Smart Citations?) Code, Data, Media Code, Data and Media Associated with this Article alphaXiv Toggle alphaXiv (What is alphaXiv?) Links to Code Toggle CatalyzeX Code Finder for Papers (What is CatalyzeX?) DagsHub Toggle DagsHub (What is DagsHub?) GotitPub Toggle Gotit.pub (What is GotitPub?) Huggingface Toggle Hugging Face (What is Huggingface?) ScienceCast Toggle ScienceCast (What is ScienceCast?) Demos Demos Replicate Toggle Replicate (What is Replicate?) Spaces Toggle Hugging Face Spaces (What is Spaces?) Spaces Toggle TXYZ.AI (What is TXYZ.AI?) Related Papers Recommenders and Search Tools Link to Influence Flower Influence Flower (What are Influence Flowers?) Core recommender toggle CORE Recommender (What is CORE?) Author Venue Institution Topic About arXivLabs arXivLabs: experimental projects with community collaborators arXivLabs is a framework that allows collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on our website. Both individuals and organizations that work with arXivLabs have embraced and accepted our values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only works with partners that adhere to them. Have an idea for a project that will add value for arXiv's community? Learn more about arXivLabs. Which authors of this paper are endorsers? | Disable MathJax (What is MathJax?)