Xu_Blurry-Edges_Photon-Limited_Depth_Estimation_from_Defocused_Boundaries@CVPR2025@CVF

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#1 Blurry-Edges: Photon-Limited Depth Estimation from Defocused Boundaries [PDF] [Copy] [Kimi] [REL]

Authors: Wei Xu, Charles James Wagner, Junjie Luo, Qi Guo

Extracting depth information from photon-limited, defocused images is challenging because depth from defocus (DfD) relies on accurate estimation of defocus blur, which is fundamentally sensitive to image noise. We present a novel approach to robustly measure object depths from photon-limited images along the defocused boundaries. It is based on a new image patch representation, Blurry-Edges, that explicitly stores and visualizes a rich set of low-level patch information, including boundaries, color, and blurriness. We develop a deep neural network architecture that predicts the Blurry-Edges representation from a pair of differently defocused images, from which depth can be analytically calculated using a novel DfD relation we derive. Our experiment shows that our method achieves the highest depth estimation accuracy on photon-limited images compared to a broad range of state-of-the-art DfD methods.

Subject: CVPR.2025 - Poster