Midnet: multi-scale interaction guided adaptive discretization network for monocular depth estimation
摘要
Monocular depth estimation faces a core challenge: balancing the physical plausibility of depth distribution with the preservation of fine details. To address this, we propose MIDNet, a novel encoder–dual-decoder architecture leveraging depth discretisation and multi-scale feature interaction. The encoder employs a hierarchical dynamic windowing attention mechanism to extract both local textures and global structures; Secondly, the dual decoders separately reconstruct geometric details via deformable convolution and generate adaptive depth queries features via cross-scale attention mechanism; Finally, the Adaptive Interval Module (AIM) fuses multi-level features and decoder outputs to generate depth interval distributions that conform to physical constraints. Experiments on NYU Depth V2 and KITTI show that our method improves AbsRel by 10.2% and 16.0% over the current best, and exhibits strong generalisation ability, verifying its feasibility for monocular depth estimation.