Remote Sensing (Jul 2023)

Depth Information Precise Completion-GAN: A Precisely Guided Method for Completing Ill Regions in Depth Maps

  • Ren Qian,
  • Wenfeng Qiu,
  • Wenbang Yang,
  • Jianhua Li,
  • Yun Wu,
  • Renyang Feng,
  • Xinan Wang,
  • Yong Zhao

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15143686
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 15, no. 14
p. 3686

Abstract

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In the depth map obtained through binocular stereo matching, there are many ill regions due to reasons such as lighting or occlusion. These ill regions cannot be accurately obtained due to the lack of information required for matching. Since the completion model based on Gan generates random results, it cannot accurately complete the depth map. Therefore, it is necessary to accurately complete the depth map according to reality. To address this issue, this paper proposes a depth information precise completion GAN (DIPC-GAN) that effectively uses the Guid layer normalization (GuidLN) module to guide the model for precise completion by utilizing depth edges. GuidLN flexibly adjusts the weights of the guiding conditions based on intermediate results, allowing modules to accurately and effectively incorporate the guiding information. The model employs multiscale discriminators to discriminate results of different resolutions at different generator stages, enhancing the generator’s grasp of overall image and detail information. Additionally, this paper proposes Attention-ResBlock, which enables all ResBlocks in each task module of the GAN-based multitask model to focus on their own task by sharing a mask. Even when the ill regions are large, the model can effectively complement the missing details in these regions. Additionally, the multiscale discriminator in the model enhances the generator’s robustness. Finally, the proposed task-specific residual module can effectively focus different subnetworks of a multitask model on their respective tasks. The model has shown good repair results on datasets, including artificial, real, and remote sensing images. The final experimental results showed that the model’s REL and RMSE decreased by 9.3% and 9.7%, respectively, compared to RDFGan.

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