Revisiting 360 Depth Estimation with PanoGabor: A New Fusion Perspective

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Main Authors: Shen, Zhijie, Lin, Chunyu, Nie, Lang, Liao, Kang, Lin, Weisi, Zhao, Yao
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author Shen, Zhijie
Lin, Chunyu
Nie, Lang
Liao, Kang
Lin, Weisi
Zhao, Yao
author_facet Shen, Zhijie
Lin, Chunyu
Nie, Lang
Liao, Kang
Lin, Weisi
Zhao, Yao
contents Depth estimation from a monocular 360 image is important to the perception of the entire 3D environment. However, the inherent distortion and large field of view (FoV) in 360 images pose great challenges for this task. To this end, existing mainstream solutions typically introduce additional perspective-based 360 representations ({e.g., Cubemap) to achieve effective feature extraction. Nevertheless, regardless of the introduced representations, they eventually need to be unified into the equirectangular projection (ERP) format for the subsequent depth estimation, which inevitably reintroduces the troublesome distortions. In this work, we propose an oriented distortion-aware Gabor Fusion framework (PGFuse) to address the above challenges. First, we introduce Gabor filters that analyze texture in the frequency domain, thereby extending the receptive fields and enhancing depth cues. To address the reintroduced distortions, we design a linear latitude-aware distortion representation method to generate customized, distortion-aware Gabor filters (PanoGabor filters). Furthermore, we design a channel-wise and spatial-wise unidirectional fusion module (CS-UFM) that integrates the proposed PanoGabor filters to unify other representations into the ERP format, delivering effective and distortion-free features. Considering the orientation sensitivity of the Gabor transform, we introduce a spherical gradient constraint to stabilize this sensitivity. Experimental results on three popular indoor 360 benchmarks demonstrate the superiority of the proposed PGFuse to existing state-of-the-art solutions. Code and models will be available at https://github.com/zhijieshen-bjtu/PGFuse
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spellingShingle Revisiting 360 Depth Estimation with PanoGabor: A New Fusion Perspective
Shen, Zhijie
Lin, Chunyu
Nie, Lang
Liao, Kang
Lin, Weisi
Zhao, Yao
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Depth estimation from a monocular 360 image is important to the perception of the entire 3D environment. However, the inherent distortion and large field of view (FoV) in 360 images pose great challenges for this task. To this end, existing mainstream solutions typically introduce additional perspective-based 360 representations ({e.g., Cubemap) to achieve effective feature extraction. Nevertheless, regardless of the introduced representations, they eventually need to be unified into the equirectangular projection (ERP) format for the subsequent depth estimation, which inevitably reintroduces the troublesome distortions. In this work, we propose an oriented distortion-aware Gabor Fusion framework (PGFuse) to address the above challenges. First, we introduce Gabor filters that analyze texture in the frequency domain, thereby extending the receptive fields and enhancing depth cues. To address the reintroduced distortions, we design a linear latitude-aware distortion representation method to generate customized, distortion-aware Gabor filters (PanoGabor filters). Furthermore, we design a channel-wise and spatial-wise unidirectional fusion module (CS-UFM) that integrates the proposed PanoGabor filters to unify other representations into the ERP format, delivering effective and distortion-free features. Considering the orientation sensitivity of the Gabor transform, we introduce a spherical gradient constraint to stabilize this sensitivity. Experimental results on three popular indoor 360 benchmarks demonstrate the superiority of the proposed PGFuse to existing state-of-the-art solutions. Code and models will be available at https://github.com/zhijieshen-bjtu/PGFuse
title Revisiting 360 Depth Estimation with PanoGabor: A New Fusion Perspective
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.16227