Coupled real-synthetic domain adaptation for real-world deep depth enhancement
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Author(s)
Gu, Xiao
Guo, Yao
Deligianni, Fani
Yang, Guang-Zhong
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Advances in depth sensing technologies have allowed simultaneous acquisition of both color and depth data under different environments. However, most depth sensors have lower resolution than that of the associated color channels and such a mismatch can affect applications that require accurate depth recovery. Existing depth enhancement methods use simplistic noise models and cannot generalize well under real-world conditions. In this paper, a coupled real-synthetic domain adaptation method is proposed, which enables domain transfer between high-quality depth simulators and real depth camera information for super-resolution depth recovery. The method first enables the realistic degradation from synthetic images, and then enhances degraded depth data to high quality with a color-guided sub-network. The key advantage of the work is that it generalizes well to real-world datasets without further training or fine-tuning. Detailed quantitative and qualitative results are presented, and it is demonstrated that the proposed method achieves improved performance compared to previous methods fine-tuned on the specific datasets.
Date Issued
2020-04-23
Date Acceptance
2020-04-10
Citation
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 2020, 29, pp.6343-6356
ISSN
1057-7149
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Start Page
6343
End Page
6356
Journal / Book Title
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
Volume
29
Copyright Statement
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Identifier
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9076884
Subjects
Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing
0801 Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
0906 Electrical and Electronic Engineering
1702 Cognitive Sciences
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2020-04-23