Single-image depth inference using generative adversarial networks
College
College of Computer Studies
Department/Unit
Software Technology
Document Type
Article
Source Title
Sensors (Switzerland)
Volume
19
Issue
7
Publication Date
4-1-2019
Abstract
© 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Depth has been a valuable piece of information for perception tasks such as robot grasping, obstacle avoidance, and navigation, which are essential tasks for developing smart homes and smart cities. However, not all applications have the luxury of using depth sensors or multiple cameras to obtain depth information. In this paper, we tackle the problem of estimating the per-pixel depths from a single image. Inspired by the recent works on generative neural network models, we formulate the task of depth estimation as a generative task where we synthesize an image of the depth map from a single Red, Green, and Blue (RGB) input image. We propose a novel generative adversarial network that has an encoder-decoder type generator with residual transposed convolution blocks trained with an adversarial loss. Quantitative and qualitative experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach over several depth estimation works.
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Digitial Object Identifier (DOI)
10.3390/s19071708
Recommended Citation
Tan, D., Yao, C., Ruiz, C., & Hua, K. (2019). Single-image depth inference using generative adversarial networks. Sensors (Switzerland), 19 (7) https://doi.org/10.3390/s19071708
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