Skip to yearly menu bar Skip to main content


Poster

Depth from a Single Image by Harmonizing Overcomplete Local Network Predictions

Ayan Chakrabarti · Jingyu Shao · Greg Shakhnarovich

Area 5+6+7+8 #112

Keywords: [ Structured Prediction ] [ (Application) Computer Vision ] [ Deep Learning or Neural Networks ]


Abstract:

A single color image can contain many cues informative towards different aspects of local geometric structure. We approach the problem of monocular depth estimation by using a neural network to produce a mid-level representation that summarizes these cues. This network is trained to characterize local scene geometry by predicting, at every image location, depth derivatives of different orders, orientations and scales. However, instead of a single estimate for each derivative, the network outputs probability distributions that allow it to express confidence about some coefficients, and ambiguity about others. Scene depth is then estimated by harmonizing this overcomplete set of network predictions, using a globalization procedure that finds a single consistent depth map that best matches all the local derivative distributions. We demonstrate the efficacy of this approach through evaluation on the NYU v2 depth data set.

Live content is unavailable. Log in and register to view live content