Monocular depth estimation (MDE) remains a fundamental yet not well-solved problem in computer vision. Current wisdom of MDE often achieves blurred or even indistinct depth boundaries, degenerating the quality of vision-based intelligent transportation systems. This paper presents an edge-enhanced vision transformer bins network for monocular depth estimation, termed eViTBins. eViTBins has three core modules to predict monocular depth maps with exceptional smoothness, accuracy, and fidelity to scene structures and object edges. First, a multi-scale feature fusion module is proposed to circumvent the loss of depth information at various levels during depth regression. Second, an image-guided edge-enhancement module is proposed to accurately infer depth values around image boundaries. Third, a vision transformer-based depth discretization module is introduced to comprehend the global depth distribution. Meanwhile, unlike most MDE models that rely on high-performance GPUs, eViTBins is optimized for seamless deployment on edge devices, such as NVIDIA Jetson Nano and Google Coral SBC, making it ideal for real-time intelligent transportation systems applications. Extensive experimental evaluations corroborate the superiority of eViTBins over competing methods, notably in terms of preserving depth edges and global depth representations.


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    Title :

    eViTBins: Edge-Enhanced Vision-Transformer Bins for Monocular Depth Estimation on Edge Devices


    Contributors:
    She, Yutong (author) / Li, Peng (author) / Wei, Mingqiang (author) / Liang, Dong (author) / Chen, Yiping (author) / Xie, Haoran (author) / Lee Wang, Fu (author)

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    Publication date :

    2024-12-01


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    5665126 byte




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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