Learning Pixel-wise Continuous Depth Representation via Clustering for Depth Completion
Depth completion is a long-standing challenge in computer vision, where classification-based methods have made tremendous progress in recent years. However, most existing classification-based methods rely on pre-defined pixel-shared and discrete depth values as depth categories. This representation fails to capture the continuous depth values that conform to the real depth distribution, leading to depth smearing in boundary regions. To address this issue, we revisit depth completion from the clustering perspective and propose a novel clustering-based framework called CluDe which focuses on learning the pixel-wise and continuous depth representation. The key idea of CluDe is to iteratively update the pixel-shared and discrete depth representation to its corresponding pixel-wise and continuous counterpart, driven by the real depth distribution. Specifically, CluDe first utilizes depth value clustering to learn a set of depth centers as the depth representation. While these depth centers are pixel-shared and discrete, they are more in line with the real depth distribution compared to pre-defined depth categories. Then, CluDe estimates offsets for these depth centers, enabling their dynamic adjustment along the depth axis of the depth distribution to generate the pixel-wise and continuous depth representation. Extensive experiments demonstrate that CluDe successfully reduces depth smearing around object boundaries by utilizing pixel-wise and continuous depth representation. Furthermore, CluDe achieves state-of-the-art performance on the VOID datasets and outperforms classification-based methods on the KITTI dataset.
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