Leveraging Stable Diffusion for Monocular Depth Estimation via Image Semantic Encoding

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2502.01666v1
• Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2025 15:37:22 GMT
• Title: Leveraging Stable Diffusion for Monocular Depth Estimation via Image Semantic Encoding
• Authors: Jingming Xia, Guanqun Cao, Guang Ma, Yiben Luo, Qinzhao Li, John Oyekan,
• Abstract summary: We propose a novel image-based semantic embedding that extracts contextual information directly from visual features. Our method achieves performance comparable to state-of-the-art models while addressing the shortcomings of CLIP embeddings in handling outdoor scenes.
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• Abstract: Monocular depth estimation involves predicting depth from a single RGB image and plays a crucial role in applications such as autonomous driving, robotic navigation, 3D reconstruction, etc. Recent advancements in learning-based methods have significantly improved depth estimation performance. Generative models, particularly Stable Diffusion, have shown remarkable potential in recovering fine details and reconstructing missing regions through large-scale training on diverse datasets. However, models like CLIP, which rely on textual embeddings, face limitations in complex outdoor environments where rich context information is needed. These limitations reduce their effectiveness in such challenging scenarios. Here, we propose a novel image-based semantic embedding that extracts contextual information directly from visual features, significantly improving depth prediction in complex environments. Evaluated on the KITTI and Waymo datasets, our method achieves performance comparable to state-of-the-art models while addressing the shortcomings of CLIP embeddings in handling outdoor scenes. By leveraging visual semantics directly, our method demonstrates enhanced robustness and adaptability in depth estimation tasks, showcasing its potential for application to other visual perception tasks.

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