Estimating Image Depth in the Comics Domain

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2110.03575v1
• Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2021 15:54:27 GMT
• Title: Estimating Image Depth in the Comics Domain
• Authors: Deblina Bhattacharjee, Martin Everaert, Mathieu Salzmann, Sabine S\"usstrunk
• Abstract summary: We use an off-the-shelf unsupervised image to image translation method to translate the comics images to natural ones. We then use an attention-guided monocular depth estimator to predict their depth. Our model learns to distinguish between text and images in the comics panels to reduce text-based artefacts in the depth estimates.
• Score: 59.275961069130304
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Estimating the depth of comics images is challenging as such images a) are monocular; b) lack ground-truth depth annotations; c) differ across different artistic styles; d) are sparse and noisy. We thus, use an off-the-shelf unsupervised image to image translation method to translate the comics images to natural ones and then use an attention-guided monocular depth estimator to predict their depth. This lets us leverage the depth annotations of existing natural images to train the depth estimator. Furthermore, our model learns to distinguish between text and images in the comics panels to reduce text-based artefacts in the depth estimates. Our method consistently outperforms the existing state-ofthe-art approaches across all metrics on both the DCM and eBDtheque images. Finally, we introduce a dataset to evaluate depth prediction on comics.

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