GlobalDepth: A Global Information Aggregation Network for Depth Estimation

Depth estimation from a single image is a challenging yet crucial task for reconstructing 3D structures and inferring scene geometry. However, most methods struggle to effectively leverage global information at high resolutions to establish long-distance dependencies between distant pixels, thereby...

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Published in:IEEE transactions on circuits and systems. II, Express briefs Express briefs, 2024-06, Vol.71 (6), p.3201-3205
Main Authors: Li, Guangping, Zhi, Zhuokun, Ling, Bingo Wing-Kuen
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Convolution
Decoding
Depth estimation
Estimation
Feature maps
global average pooling
global information
Modules
Predictive models
self-attention
Task analysis
Three-dimensional displays
Transformers
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Summary:Depth estimation from a single image is a challenging yet crucial task for reconstructing 3D structures and inferring scene geometry. However, most methods struggle to effectively leverage global information at high resolutions to establish long-distance dependencies between distant pixels, thereby affecting the accurate prediction of depth for objects in shadows and faraway regions. To address this issue, we propose GlobalDepth, which utilizes the Global Information Aggregation Module (GIAM) based on self-attention mechanism to model long-distance dependencies in the spatial domain. We introduce the Global Information Enhancement Module (GIEM) based on multi-scale global average pooling to enhance global information in depth feature maps. Experimental results on the NYU-Depth-v2, KITTI, and SUNRGB-D datasets demonstrate that GlobalDepth outperforms existing methods in terms of performance and generalization capability.
ISSN:1549-7747
1558-3791
DOI:10.1109/TCSII.2024.3354068