Depth-to-Image Synthesis-Driven Generative Unguided Depth Completion

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2609.06007v1
• Date: Sat, 05 Sep 2026 10:20:22 GMT
• Title: Depth-to-Image Synthesis-Driven Generative Unguided Depth Completion
• Abstract summary: We present Depth-to-Image Synthesis-Driven Generative Unguided Depth Completion (GUDC)<n>Our key idea is to exploit ControlNet's powerful depth-conditioned generation capability to synthesize pseudo-images directly from sparse depth.<n>During pseudo-image-guided completion, we propose a pseudo-image semantic attention fusion module to adaptively extract informative semantic cues from pseudo-images.
• Score: 10.33984444207182
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Guided depth completion methods heavily depend on RGB quality and alignment, while unguided ones often suffer from limited precision due to the absence of explicit visual cues. In this paper, we present Depth-to-Image Synthesis-Driven Generative Unguided Depth Completion (GUDC), a new completion paradigm that innovatively bridges advanced 2D generative models with unguided depth completion, enabling semantics-aware depth inference without real RGB inputs. Our key idea is to exploit ControlNet's powerful depth-conditioned generation capability to synthesize pseudo-images directly from sparse depth, effectively converting the original unguided setting into a semantics-guided one. To address the potential image-depth misalignment caused by depth sparsity, we propose a multi-level dense-to-sparse representation distillation strategy for ControlNet fine-tuning, where dense-depth features act as teacher signals to distill consistent structural representations for sparse-depth inputs. Furthermore, during pseudo-image-guided completion, we propose a pseudo-image semantic attention fusion module to adaptively extract informative semantic cues from pseudo-images while suppressing artifacts (e.g., texture hallucinations). Extensive experiments on KITTI and NYUv2 validate that our GUDC achieves superior accuracy and robustness over existing methods.

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