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Dense Depth Posterior (DDP) from Single Image and Sparse Range

28 Jan 2019CVPR 2019 6arXiv:1901.10034archive 2025-07-28

Yanchao Yang, Alex Wong, Stefano Soatto

We present a deep learning system to infer the posterior distribution of a dense depth map associated with an image, by exploiting sparse range measurements, for instance from a lidar. While the lidar may provide a depth value for a small percentage of the pixels, we exploit regularities reflected in the training set to complete the map so as to have a probability over depth for each pixel in the image. We exploit a Conditional Prior Network, that allows associating a probability to each depth value given an image, and combine it with a likelihood term that uses the sparse measurements. Optionally we can also exploit the availability of stereo during training, but in any case only require a single image and a sparse point cloud at run-time. We test our approach on both unsupervised and supervised depth completion using the KITTI benchmark, and improve the state-of-the-art in both.

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Depth Completion VOID DDP MAE 151.86 #5 of 6 Archive leaderboard report
Depth Completion VOID DDP RMSE 222.36 #5 of 6 Archive leaderboard report
Depth Completion VOID DDP iMAE 74.59 #5 of 6 Archive leaderboard report
Depth Completion VOID DDP iRMSE 112.36 #5 of 6 Archive leaderboard report

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