PatchRefiner V2: Fast and Lightweight Real-Domain High-Resolution Metric Depth Estimation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2501.01121v1
• Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2025 07:41:27 GMT
• Title: PatchRefiner V2: Fast and Lightweight Real-Domain High-Resolution Metric Depth Estimation
• Authors: Zhenyu Li, Wenqing Cui, Shariq Farooq Bhat, Peter Wonka,
• Abstract summary: PRV2 outperforms state-of-the-art depth estimation methods on UnrealStereo4K in both accuracy and speed.<n>It also shows improved depth boundary delineation on real-world datasets like CityScape, ScanNet++, and KITTI.
• Score: 38.71875790942604
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: While current high-resolution depth estimation methods achieve strong results, they often suffer from computational inefficiencies due to reliance on heavyweight models and multiple inference steps, increasing inference time. To address this, we introduce PatchRefiner V2 (PRV2), which replaces heavy refiner models with lightweight encoders. This reduces model size and inference time but introduces noisy features. To overcome this, we propose a Coarse-to-Fine (C2F) module with a Guided Denoising Unit for refining and denoising the refiner features and a Noisy Pretraining strategy to pretrain the refiner branch to fully exploit the potential of the lightweight refiner branch. Additionally, we introduce a Scale-and-Shift Invariant Gradient Matching (SSIGM) loss to enhance synthetic-to-real domain transfer. PRV2 outperforms state-of-the-art depth estimation methods on UnrealStereo4K in both accuracy and speed, using fewer parameters and faster inference. It also shows improved depth boundary delineation on real-world datasets like CityScape, ScanNet++, and KITTI, demonstrating its versatility across domains.

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