Get better depth from monocular images by using segmentation masks with MaskDepth

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Get better depth from monocular images by using segmentation masks with MaskDepth

Layered Depth Refinement with Mask Guidance
arXiv paper abstract https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.03048
arXiv PDF paper https://arxiv.org/pdf/2206.03048.pdf
Project page https://sooyekim.github.io/MaskDepth/

Depth maps … predicted by single image depth estimation (SIDE) models often fail to capture isolated holes in objects and/or have inaccurate boundary regions.

… high-quality masks are much easier to obtain, using commercial auto-masking tools or off-the-shelf methods of segmentation and matting or even by manual editing.

… formulate a novel problem of mask-guided depth refinement that utilizes a generic mask to refine the depth prediction of SIDE models.

… framework performs layered refinement and inpainting/outpainting, decomposing the depth map into two separate layers signified by the mask and the inverse mask.

As datasets with both depth and mask annotations are scarce, … propose a self-supervised learning scheme that uses arbitrary masks and RGB-D datasets.

… method is robust to different types of masks and initial depth predictions, accurately refining depth values in inner and outer mask boundary regions …

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