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Learning Depth Estimation for Transparent and Mirror Surfaces

27 Jul 2023ICCV 2023 1arXiv:2307.15052archive 2025-07-28

Alex Costanzino, Pierluigi Zama Ramirez, Matteo Poggi, Fabio Tosi, Stefano Mattoccia, Luigi Di Stefano

Inferring the depth of transparent or mirror (ToM) surfaces represents a hard challenge for either sensors, algorithms, or deep networks. We propose a simple pipeline for learning to estimate depth properly for such surfaces with neural networks, without requiring any ground-truth annotation. We unveil how to obtain reliable pseudo labels by in-painting ToM objects in images and processing them with a monocular depth estimation model. These labels can be used to fine-tune existing monocular or stereo networks, to let them learn how to deal with ToM surfaces. Experimental results on the Booster dataset show the dramatic improvements enabled by our remarkably simple proposal.

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