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Register a new userA Joint Intensity and Depth Co-Sparse Analysis Model for Depth Map Super-Resolution
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Martin Kiechle
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2013
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Informatics Engineering
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English
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High-resolution depth maps can be inferred from low-resolution depth measurements and an additional high-resolution intensity image of the same scene. To that end, we introduce a bimodal co-sparse analysis model, which is able to capture the interdependency of registered intensity and depth information. This model is based on the assumption that the co-supports of corresponding bimodal image structures are aligned when computed by a suitable pair of analysis operators. No analytic form of such operators exist and we propose a method for learning them from a set of registered training signals. This learning process is done offline and returns a bimodal analysis operator that is universally applicable to natural scenes. We use this to exploit the bimodal co-sparse analysis model as a prior for solving inverse problems, which leads to an efficient algorithm for depth map super-resolution.
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Depth map super-resolution is a task with high practical application requirements in the industry. Existing color-guided depth map super-resolution methods usually necessitate an extra branch to extract high-frequency detail information from RGB image to guide the low-resolution depth map reconstruction. However, because there are still some differences between the two modalities, direct information transmission in the feature dimension or edge map dimension cannot achieve satisfactory result, and may even trigger texture copying in areas where the structures of the RGB-D pair are inconsistent. Inspired by the multi-task learning, we propose a joint learning network of depth map super-resolution (DSR) and monocular depth estimation (MDE) without introducing additional supervision labels. For the interaction of two subnetworks, we adopt a differentiated guidance strategy and design two bridges correspondingly. One is the high-frequency attention bridge (HABdg) designed for the feature encoding process, which learns the high-frequency information of the MDE task to guide the DSR task. The other is the content guidance bridge (CGBdg) designed for the depth map reconstruction process, which provides the content guidance learned from DSR task for MDE task. The entire network architecture is highly portable and can provide a paradigm for associating the DSR and MDE tasks. Extensive experiments on benchmark datasets demonstrate that our method achieves competitive performance. Our code and models are available at https://rmcong.github.io/proj_BridgeNet.html.
Limited by the cost and technology, the resolution of depth map collected by depth camera is often lower than that of its associated RGB camera. Although there have been many researches on RGB image super-resolution (SR), a major problem with depth map super-resolution is that there will be obvious jagged edges and excessive loss of details. To tackle these difficulties, in this work, we propose a multi-scale progressive fusion network for depth map SR, which possess an asymptotic structure to integrate hierarchical features in different domains. Given a low-resolution (LR) depth map and its associated high-resolution (HR) color image, We utilize two different branches to achieve multi-scale feature learning. Next, we propose a step-wise fusion strategy to restore the HR depth map. Finally, a multi-dimensional loss is introduced to constrain clear boundaries and details. Extensive experiments show that our proposed method produces improved results against state-of-the-art methods both qualitatively and quantitatively.
Guided depth super-resolution (GDSR) is a hot topic in multi-modal image processing. The goal is to use high-resolution (HR) RGB images to provide extra information on edges and object contours, so that low-resolution depth maps can be upsampled to HR ones. To solve the issues of RGB texture over-transferred, cross-modal feature extraction difficulty and unclear working mechanism of modules in existing methods, we propose an advanced Discrete Cosine Transform Network (DCTNet), which is composed of four components. Firstly, the paired RGB/depth images are input into the semi-coupled feature extraction module. The shared convolution kernels extract the cross-modal common features, and the private kernels extract their unique features, respectively. Then the RGB features are input into the edge attention mechanism to highlight the edges useful for upsampling. Subsequently, in the Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) module, where DCT is employed to solve the optimization problem designed for image domain GDSR. The solution is then extended to implement the multi-channel RGB/depth features upsampling, which increases the rationality of DCTNet, and is more flexible and effective than conventional methods. The final depth prediction is output by the reconstruction module. Numerous qualitative and quantitative experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of our method, which can generate accurate and HR depth maps, surpassing state-of-the-art methods. Meanwhile, the rationality of modules is also proved by ablation experiments.
RGBD images, combining high-resolution color and lower-resolution depth from various types of depth sensors, are increasingly common. One can significantly improve the resolution of depth maps by taking advantage of color information; deep learning methods make combining color and depth information particularly easy. However, fusing these two sources of data may lead to a variety of artifacts. If depth maps are used to reconstruct 3D shapes, e.g., for virtual reality applications, the visual quality of upsampled images is particularly important. The main idea of our approach is to measure the quality of depth map upsampling using renderings of resulting 3D surfaces. We demonstrate that a simple visual appearance-based loss, when used with either a trained CNN or simply a deep prior, yields significantly improved 3D shapes, as measured by a number of existing perceptual metrics. We compare this approach with a number of existing optimization and learning-based techniques.
Guided sparse depth upsampling aims to upsample an irregularly sampled sparse depth map when an aligned high-resolution color image is given as guidance. Many neural networks have been designed for this task. However, they often ignore the structural difference between the depth and the color image, resulting in obvious artifacts such as texture copy and depth blur at the upsampling depth. Inspired by the normalized convolution operation, we propose a guided convolutional layer to recover dense depth from sparse and irregular depth image with an depth edge image as guidance. Our novel guided network can prevent the depth value from crossing the depth edge to facilitate upsampling. We further design a convolution network based on proposed convolutional layer to combine the advantages of different algorithms and achieve better performance. We conduct comprehensive experiments to verify our method on real-world indoor and synthetic outdoor datasets. Our method produces strong results. It outperforms state-of-the-art methods on the Virtual KITTI dataset and the Middlebury dataset. It also presents strong generalization capability under different 3D point densities, various lighting and weather conditions.
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