FUSE: Label-Free Image-Event Joint Monocular Depth Estimation via Frequency-Decoupled Alignment and Degradation-Robust Fusion

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2503.19739v2
• Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2025 06:54:19 GMT
• Title: FUSE: Label-Free Image-Event Joint Monocular Depth Estimation via Frequency-Decoupled Alignment and Degradation-Robust Fusion
• Authors: Pihai Sun, Junjun Jiang, Yuanqi Yao, Youyu Chen, Wenbo Zhao, Kui Jiang, Xianming Liu,
• Abstract summary: Image-event joint depth estimation methods leverage complementary modalities for robust perception, yet face challenges in generalizability.<n>We propose Self-supervised Transfer (PST) and FrequencyDe-coupled Fusion module (FreDF)<n>PST establishes cross-modal knowledge transfer through latent space alignment with image foundation models.<n>FreDF explicitly decouples high-frequency edge features from low-frequency structural components, resolving modality-specific frequency mismatches.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Image-event joint depth estimation methods leverage complementary modalities for robust perception, yet face challenges in generalizability stemming from two factors: 1) limited annotated image-event-depth datasets causing insufficient cross-modal supervision, and 2) inherent frequency mismatches between static images and dynamic event streams with distinct spatiotemporal patterns, leading to ineffective feature fusion. To address this dual challenge, we propose Frequency-decoupled Unified Self-supervised Encoder (FUSE) with two synergistic components: The Parameter-efficient Self-supervised Transfer (PST) establishes cross-modal knowledge transfer through latent space alignment with image foundation models, effectively mitigating data scarcity by enabling joint encoding without depth ground truth. Complementing this, we propose the Frequency-Decoupled Fusion module (FreDFuse) to explicitly decouple high-frequency edge features from low-frequency structural components, resolving modality-specific frequency mismatches through physics-aware fusion. This combined approach enables FUSE to construct a universal image-event encoder that only requires lightweight decoder adaptation for target datasets. Extensive experiments demonstrate state-of-the-art performance with 14% and 24.9% improvements in Abs.Rel on MVSEC and DENSE datasets. The framework exhibits remarkable zero-shot adaptability to challenging scenarios including extreme lighting and motion blur, significantly advancing real-world deployment capabilities. The source code for our method is publicly available at: https://github.com/sunpihai-up/FUSE

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