Learning Depth Estimation for Transparent and Mirror Surfaces


Presented at ICCV2023

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Learning Depth Estimation for Transparent and Mirror Surfaces
Alex Costanzino*, Pierluigi Zama Ramirez*, Matteo Poggi*, Fabio Tosi, Stefano Mattoccia, Luigi Di Stefano
*Equal Contribution

Inferring the depth of transparent or mirror (ToM) surfaces represents a hard challenge for either sensors, algorithms, or deep networks. We propose a simple pipeline for learning to estimate depth properly for such surfaces with neural networks, without requiring any ground-truth annotation. We unveil how to obtain reliable pseudo labels by in-painting ToM objects in images and processing them with a monocular depth estimation model. These labels can be used to fine-tune existing monocular or stereo networks, to let them learn how to deal with ToM surfaces. Experimental results on the Booster dataset show the dramatic improvements enabled by our remarkably simple proposal.

CITATION

@inproceedings{costanzino2023iccv,
    title = {Learning Depth Estimation for Transparent and Mirror Surfaces},
    author = {Costanzino, Alex and Zama Ramirez, Pierluigi and Poggi, Matteo and Tosi, Fabio and Mattoccia, Stefano and Di Stefano, Luigi},
    booktitle = {The IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision},
    note = {ICCV},
    year = {2023},
}

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Alex Costanzino
PhD Student
University of Bologna
alex.costanzino@unibo.it
Pierluigi Zama Ramirez
Post Doc
University of Bologna
pierluigi.zama@unibo.it
Matteo Poggi
Assistant Professor
University of Bologna
m.poggi@unibo.it
Fabio Tosi
Post Doc
University of Bologna
fabio.tosi5@unibo.it
Stefano Mattoccia
Professor
University of Bologna
stefano.mattoccia@unibo.it
Luigi Di Stefano
Full Professor
University of Bologna
luigi.distefano@unibo.it