DepthCrafter: Generating Consistent Long Depth Sequences for Open-world Videos

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2409.02095v1
• Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2024 17:52:03 GMT
• Title: DepthCrafter: Generating Consistent Long Depth Sequences for Open-world Videos
• Authors: Wenbo Hu, Xiangjun Gao, Xiaoyu Li, Sijie Zhao, Xiaodong Cun, Yong Zhang, Long Quan, Ying Shan,
• Abstract summary: DepthCrafter generates temporally consistent long depth sequences with intricate details for open-world videos. Our training approach enables the model to generate depth sequences with variable lengths at one time, up to 110 frames. DepthCrafter facilitates various downstream applications, including depth-based visual effects and conditional video generation.
• Score: 51.90501863934735
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Despite significant advancements in monocular depth estimation for static images, estimating video depth in the open world remains challenging, since open-world videos are extremely diverse in content, motion, camera movement, and length. We present DepthCrafter, an innovative method for generating temporally consistent long depth sequences with intricate details for open-world videos, without requiring any supplementary information such as camera poses or optical flow. DepthCrafter achieves generalization ability to open-world videos by training a video-to-depth model from a pre-trained image-to-video diffusion model, through our meticulously designed three-stage training strategy with the compiled paired video-depth datasets. Our training approach enables the model to generate depth sequences with variable lengths at one time, up to 110 frames, and harvest both precise depth details and rich content diversity from realistic and synthetic datasets. We also propose an inference strategy that processes extremely long videos through segment-wise estimation and seamless stitching. Comprehensive evaluations on multiple datasets reveal that DepthCrafter achieves state-of-the-art performance in open-world video depth estimation under zero-shot settings. Furthermore, DepthCrafter facilitates various downstream applications, including depth-based visual effects and conditional video generation.

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