Title
Single-Image Depth Estimation By Refined Segmentation And Consistency Reconstruction
Abstract
Recent years have witnessed tremendous success of single-image depth estimation. However, most of the existing approaches merely use scene descriptions of a whole image to retrieve its candidates, which may end up with undesirable depth supports for local regions. In this paper, we propose a segmentation method for single-image depth estimation based on data-driven framework. First, a per-pixel boundary spreading method is presented to improve the image segmentation and provide local regions for image retrieval. Second, a local region image retrieval is conducted to provide a powerful support for the depth estimation of each segmented part. Third, a scene similarity matrix is constructed and combined with the initial depth prior to establish the correlations across different regions for a consistent depth optimization. Experiments show that applying our method to classic data-driven methods can improve the performance of depth estimation. Besides, our results also manifest clearer depth boundaries in some local regions than the state-of-the-art methods based on deep learning framework.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1016/j.image.2020.116048
SIGNAL PROCESSING-IMAGE COMMUNICATION
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Depth estimation, Image segmentation, Consistency reconstruction, Single image
Journal
90
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0923-5965
0
0.34
References 
Authors
27
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Huajun Liu162.79
Dian Lei201.69
Zhu Qing374.87
Haigang Sui44013.76
Huanran Zhang500.34
Ziyan Wang600.34