MetricGold: Leveraging Text-To-Image Latent Diffusion Models for Metric Depth Estimation

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Main Authors: Shah, Ansh, Krishna, K Madhava
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Krishna, K Madhava
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Krishna, K Madhava
contents Recovering metric depth from a single image remains a fundamental challenge in computer vision, requiring both scene understanding and accurate scaling. While deep learning has advanced monocular depth estimation, current models often struggle with unfamiliar scenes and layouts, particularly in zero-shot scenarios and when predicting scale-ergodic metric depth. We present MetricGold, a novel approach that harnesses generative diffusion model's rich priors to improve metric depth estimation. Building upon recent advances in MariGold, DDVM and Depth Anything V2 respectively, our method combines latent diffusion, log-scaled metric depth representation, and synthetic data training. MetricGold achieves efficient training on a single RTX 3090 within two days using photo-realistic synthetic data from HyperSIM, VirtualKitti, and TartanAir. Our experiments demonstrate robust generalization across diverse datasets, producing sharper and higher quality metric depth estimates compared to existing approaches.
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spellingShingle MetricGold: Leveraging Text-To-Image Latent Diffusion Models for Metric Depth Estimation
Shah, Ansh
Krishna, K Madhava
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Graphics
Robotics
Recovering metric depth from a single image remains a fundamental challenge in computer vision, requiring both scene understanding and accurate scaling. While deep learning has advanced monocular depth estimation, current models often struggle with unfamiliar scenes and layouts, particularly in zero-shot scenarios and when predicting scale-ergodic metric depth. We present MetricGold, a novel approach that harnesses generative diffusion model's rich priors to improve metric depth estimation. Building upon recent advances in MariGold, DDVM and Depth Anything V2 respectively, our method combines latent diffusion, log-scaled metric depth representation, and synthetic data training. MetricGold achieves efficient training on a single RTX 3090 within two days using photo-realistic synthetic data from HyperSIM, VirtualKitti, and TartanAir. Our experiments demonstrate robust generalization across diverse datasets, producing sharper and higher quality metric depth estimates compared to existing approaches.
title MetricGold: Leveraging Text-To-Image Latent Diffusion Models for Metric Depth Estimation
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Graphics
Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.10886