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Title: Efficient multilevel architecture for depth estimation from a single image
Monocular depth estimation is an important task in scene understanding with applications to pose, segmentation and autonomous navigation. Deep Learning methods relying on multilevel features are currently used for extracting local information that is used to infer depth from a single RGB image. We present an efficient architecture that utilizes the features from multiple levels with fewer connections compared to previous networks. Our model achieves comparable scores for monocular depth estimation with better efficiency on the memory requirements and computational burden.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
1749376
PAR ID:
10140798
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Date Published:
Journal Name:
Electronic Imaging
ISSN:
2470-1173
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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