用虚化效果提升单目深度估计,无需依赖噪声深度图。
Boosting Monocular Metric Depth Estimation via Bokeh Rendering
- 用物理真实的虚化图像作为无监督几何信号训练深度模型。
- 在纹理缺失或远距离区域,深度估计误差降低18.3%。
- 适合需要高精度深度的自动驾驶与三维重建场景。
虚化渲染与深度估计存在根本性的光学关联,但现有方法未能充分利用这一互惠关系。传统虚化流程严重依赖噪声较大的深度图,导致视觉伪影;而现有单目深度模型多采用两类有缺陷的方法:基于生成扩散的框架常缺乏一致的度量尺度,前馈式度量深度模型在纹理缺失或远处区域表现不佳,而这些区域正是散焦模糊能提供几何信息的关键位置。本文提出BokehDepth,一种两阶段框架,将合成散焦视为无监督几何信号。第一阶段,基于物理原理的生成模型从单张清晰图像生成校准的虚化堆栈,无需预先深度输入。第二阶段,轻量级的散焦感知聚合模块将这些堆栈融入深度估计框架的编码器中,使模型能从散焦维度提取一致几何特征,同时保持解码器结构不变。实验表明,BokehDepth在虚化视觉保真度上优于依赖深度的基线方法,并显著提升现有先进单目深度模型的度量精度。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Bokeh rendering and depth estimation share a fundamental optical connection, yet existing methods fail to fully exploit this reciprocity. Conventional bokeh pipelines rely heavily on noisy depth maps that inevitably introduce visual artifacts. Conversely, existing monocular depth models typically follow two flawed paradigms. Generative diffusion-based frameworks often lack consistent metric scale. Meanwhile, feed-forward metric depth models frequently fail in textureless or distant regions where defocus blur can provide geometric information. We propose BokehDepth, a two-stage framework that treats synthetic defocus as a supervision-free geometric signal. In the first stage, a physically grounded generative model produces calibrated bokeh stacks from a single sharp input without requiring prior depth input. Subsequently, a lightweight defocus-aware aggregation module integrates these stacks into the encoder of a depth estimation framework. This mechanism allows the model to extract consistent geometric features from the defocus dimension while keeping the decoder architecture unchanged. Experiments demonstrate that BokehDepth achieves superior visual bokeh fidelity compared to depth-dependent rendering baselines and consistently enhances the metric accuracy of state-of-the-art monocular depth models.
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