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Global Depth Perception from Familiar Scene Structure

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Torralba, Antonio; Oliva, Aude
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Abstract
In the absence of cues for absolute depth measurements as binocular disparity, motion, or defocus, the absolute distance between the observer and a scene cannot be measured. The interpretation of shading, edges and junctions may provide a 3D model of the scene but it will not inform about the actual "size" of the space. One possible source of information for absolute depth estimation is the image size of known objects. However, this is computationally complex due to the difficulty of the object recognition process. Here we propose a source of information for absolute depth estimation that does not rely on specific objects: we introduce a procedure for absolute depth estimation based on the recognition of the whole scene. The shape of the space of the scene and the structures present in the scene are strongly related to the scale of observation. We demonstrate that, by recognizing the properties of the structures present in the image, we can infer the scale of the scene, and therefore its absolute mean depth. We illustrate the interest in computing the mean depth of the scene with application to scene recognition and object detection.
Date issued
2001-12-01
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/7267
Other identifiers
AIM-2001-036
CBCL-213
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AIM-2001-036CBCL-213
Keywords
AI, depth, monocular, scale selection, natural images, scene recognition

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