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Hierarchical Normalization for Robust Monocular Depth Estimation
Chi Zhang · Wei Yin · Billzb Wang · Gang Yu · BIN FU · Chunhua Shen

Tue Nov 29 02:00 PM -- 04:00 PM (PST) @ Hall J #627
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In this paper, we address monocular depth estimation with deep neural networks. To enable training of deep monocular estimation models with various sources of datasets, state-of-the-art methods adopt image-level normalization strategies to generate affine-invariant depth representations. However, learning with the image-level normalization mainly emphasizes the relations of pixel representations with the global statistic in the images, such as the structure of the scene, while the fine-grained depth difference may be overlooked. In this paper, we propose a novel multi-scale depth normalization method that hierarchically normalizes the depth representations based on spatial information and depth distributions. Compared with previous normalization strategies applied only at the holistic image level, the proposed hierarchical normalization can effectively preserve the fine-grained details and improve accuracy. We present two strategies that define the hierarchical normalization contexts in the depth domain and the spatial domain, respectively. Our extensive experiments show that the proposed normalization strategy remarkably outperforms previous normalization methods, and we set new state-of-the-art on five zero-shot transfer benchmark datasets.

Keywords: Depth Estimation · depth prediction
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Author Information

Chi Zhang (Tencent)
Wei Yin (DJI Technology)
Billzb Wang (Tencent LightAI Lab)
Gang Yu (Megvii Inc)
BIN FU (Peking University)
Chunhua Shen (University of Adelaide)

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