Depth as Points: Center Point-based Depth Estimation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2504.18773v1
• Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2025 03:04:05 GMT
• Title: Depth as Points: Center Point-based Depth Estimation
• Authors: Zhiheng Tu, Xinjian Huang, Yong He, Ruiyang Zhou, Bo Du, Weitao Wu,
• Abstract summary: We develop a method for creating task- and scenario-specific datasets in a short time.<n>We construct the virtual depth estimation dataset VirDepth, a large-scale, multi-task autonomous driving dataset.<n>We also propose CenterDepth, a lightweight architecture for monocular depth estimation.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: The perception of vehicles and pedestrians in urban scenarios is crucial for autonomous driving. This process typically involves complicated data collection, imposes high computational and hardware demands. To address these limitations, we first develop a highly efficient method for generating virtual datasets, which enables the creation of task- and scenario-specific datasets in a short time. Leveraging this method, we construct the virtual depth estimation dataset VirDepth, a large-scale, multi-task autonomous driving dataset. Subsequently, we propose CenterDepth, a lightweight architecture for monocular depth estimation that ensures high operational efficiency and exhibits superior performance in depth estimation tasks with highly imbalanced height-scale distributions. CenterDepth integrates global semantic information through the innovative Center FC-CRFs algorithm, aggregates multi-scale features based on object key points, and enables detection-based depth estimation of targets. Experiments demonstrate that our proposed method achieves superior performance in terms of both computational speed and prediction accuracy.

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