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Exploiting temporal consistency for real-time video depth estimation

10 Aug 2019ICCV 2019 10arXiv:1908.03706archive 2025-07-28

Haokui Zhang, Chunhua Shen, Ying Li, Yuanzhouhan Cao, Yu Liu, Youliang Yan

Accuracy of depth estimation from static images has been significantly improved recently, by exploiting hierarchical features from deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Compared with static images, vast information exists among video frames and can be exploited to improve the depth estimation performance. In this work, we focus on exploring temporal information from monocular videos for depth estimation. Specifically, we take the advantage of convolutional long short-term memory (CLSTM) and propose a novel spatial-temporal CSLTM (ST-CLSTM) structure. Our ST-CLSTM structure can capture not only the spatial features but also the temporal correlations/consistency among consecutive video frames with negligible increase in computational cost. Additionally, in order to maintain the temporal consistency among the estimated depth frames, we apply the generative adversarial learning scheme and design a temporal consistency loss. The temporal consistency loss is combined with the spatial loss to update the model in an end-to-end fashion. By taking advantage of the temporal information, we build a video depth estimation framework that runs in real-time and generates visually pleasant results. Moreover, our approach is flexible and can be generalized to most existing depth estimation frameworks. Code is available at: https://tinyurl.com/STCLSTM

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Depth EstimationMonocular Depth Estimation

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Monocular Depth Estimation Mid-Air Dataset ST-CLSTM Abs Rel 0.4040 #5 of 6 Archive leaderboard report
Monocular Depth Estimation Mid-Air Dataset ST-CLSTM RMSE 13.685 #5 of 6 Archive leaderboard report
Monocular Depth Estimation Mid-Air Dataset ST-CLSTM RMSE log 0.4383 #5 of 6 Archive leaderboard report
Monocular Depth Estimation Mid-Air Dataset ST-CLSTM SQ Rel 6.3902 #5 of 6 Archive leaderboard report

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