Tree-Mamba: A Tree-Aware Mamba for Underwater Monocular Depth Estimation

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Main Authors: Zhuang, Peixian, Wang, Yijian, Fu, Zhenqi, Zhang, Hongliang, Kwong, Sam, Li, Chongyi
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author Zhuang, Peixian
Wang, Yijian
Fu, Zhenqi
Zhang, Hongliang
Kwong, Sam
Li, Chongyi
author_facet Zhuang, Peixian
Wang, Yijian
Fu, Zhenqi
Zhang, Hongliang
Kwong, Sam
Li, Chongyi
contents Underwater Monocular Depth Estimation (UMDE) is a critical task that aims to estimate high-precision depth maps from underwater degraded images caused by light absorption and scattering effects in marine environments. Recently, Mamba-based methods have achieved promising performance across various vision tasks; however, they struggle with the UMDE task because their inflexible state scanning strategies fail to model the structural features of underwater images effectively. Meanwhile, existing UMDE datasets usually contain unreliable depth labels, leading to incorrect object-depth relationships between underwater images and their corresponding depth maps. To overcome these limitations, we develop a novel tree-aware Mamba method, dubbed Tree-Mamba, for estimating accurate monocular depth maps from underwater degraded images. Specifically, we propose a tree-aware scanning strategy that adaptively constructs a minimum spanning tree based on feature similarity. The spatial topological features among the tree nodes are then flexibly aggregated through bottom-up and top-down traversals, enabling stronger multi-scale feature representation capabilities. Moreover, we construct an underwater depth estimation benchmark (called BlueDepth), which consists of 38,162 underwater image pairs with reliable depth labels. This benchmark serves as a foundational dataset for training existing deep learning-based UMDE methods to learn accurate object-depth relationships. Extensive experiments demonstrate the superiority of the proposed Tree-Mamba over several leading methods in both qualitative results and quantitative evaluations with competitive computational efficiency. Code and dataset will be available at https://wyjgr.github.io/Tree-Mamba.html.
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spellingShingle Tree-Mamba: A Tree-Aware Mamba for Underwater Monocular Depth Estimation
Zhuang, Peixian
Wang, Yijian
Fu, Zhenqi
Zhang, Hongliang
Kwong, Sam
Li, Chongyi
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Underwater Monocular Depth Estimation (UMDE) is a critical task that aims to estimate high-precision depth maps from underwater degraded images caused by light absorption and scattering effects in marine environments. Recently, Mamba-based methods have achieved promising performance across various vision tasks; however, they struggle with the UMDE task because their inflexible state scanning strategies fail to model the structural features of underwater images effectively. Meanwhile, existing UMDE datasets usually contain unreliable depth labels, leading to incorrect object-depth relationships between underwater images and their corresponding depth maps. To overcome these limitations, we develop a novel tree-aware Mamba method, dubbed Tree-Mamba, for estimating accurate monocular depth maps from underwater degraded images. Specifically, we propose a tree-aware scanning strategy that adaptively constructs a minimum spanning tree based on feature similarity. The spatial topological features among the tree nodes are then flexibly aggregated through bottom-up and top-down traversals, enabling stronger multi-scale feature representation capabilities. Moreover, we construct an underwater depth estimation benchmark (called BlueDepth), which consists of 38,162 underwater image pairs with reliable depth labels. This benchmark serves as a foundational dataset for training existing deep learning-based UMDE methods to learn accurate object-depth relationships. Extensive experiments demonstrate the superiority of the proposed Tree-Mamba over several leading methods in both qualitative results and quantitative evaluations with competitive computational efficiency. Code and dataset will be available at https://wyjgr.github.io/Tree-Mamba.html.
title Tree-Mamba: A Tree-Aware Mamba for Underwater Monocular Depth Estimation
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07687