SEDiff: Structure Extraction for Domain Adaptive Depth Estimation via Denoising Diffusion Models

Dongseok Shim*, Hyoun Jin Kim* ;

"In monocular depth estimation, it is challenging to acquire a large amount of depth-annotated training data, which leads to a reliance on synthetic datasets. However, the inherent discrepancies between the synthetic environment and the real-world result in a domain shift and sub-optimal performance. In this paper, we introduce SEDiff which firstly leverages a diffusion-based generative model to extract essential structural information for accurate depth estimation. SEDiff wipes out the domain-specific components in the synthetic data and enables structural-consistent style transfer to mitigate the performance degradation due to the domain gap. Extensive experiments demonstrate the superiority of SEDiff over state-of-the-art methods in various scenarios for domain-adaptive depth estimation."