Monocular Depth Estimation Primed by Salient Point Detection and Normalized Hessian Loss

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2108.11098v1
• Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2021 07:51:09 GMT
• Title: Monocular Depth Estimation Primed by Salient Point Detection and Normalized Hessian Loss
• Authors: Lam Huynh, Matteo Pedone, Phong Nguyen, Jiri Matas, Esa Rahtu, Janne Heikkila
• Abstract summary: We propose an accurate and lightweight framework for monocular depth estimation based on a self-attention mechanism stemming from salient point detection. We introduce a normalized Hessian loss term invariant to scaling and shear along the depth direction, which is shown to substantially improve the accuracy. The proposed method achieves state-of-the-art results on NYU-Depth-v2 and KITTI while using 3.1-38.4 times smaller model in terms of the number of parameters than baseline approaches.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Deep neural networks have recently thrived on single image depth estimation. That being said, current developments on this topic highlight an apparent compromise between accuracy and network size. This work proposes an accurate and lightweight framework for monocular depth estimation based on a self-attention mechanism stemming from salient point detection. Specifically, we utilize a sparse set of keypoints to train a FuSaNet model that consists of two major components: Fusion-Net and Saliency-Net. In addition, we introduce a normalized Hessian loss term invariant to scaling and shear along the depth direction, which is shown to substantially improve the accuracy. The proposed method achieves state-of-the-art results on NYU-Depth-v2 and KITTI while using 3.1-38.4 times smaller model in terms of the number of parameters than baseline approaches. Experiments on the SUN-RGBD further demonstrate the generalizability of the proposed method.

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