Multi-Scale Context Enhanced Network for Monocular Depth Estimation

Monocular depth estimation is a classical computer vision task. At present, most CNN methods cannot effectively combine high-level and low-level features, leading to the loss of details and blurring of boundaries. To solve the problem, we propose a Multi-Scale Context Enhanced Network (MCEN) to learn more abundant context and expand its receptive field for high-accuracy estimation. Our method employs CRE-HRNet (Context and Receptive Enhanced High-Resolution Network) with four branches ranging from low-dimension to high-dimension features to obtain richer contextual information and extract multi-scale features. It then uses RM (Refinement Module) adopting the residual dilated convolution to retains detailed information and improve the receptive field. Finally, non-local block enables our network to capture the longdistance context through its special non-local operation. Experiments with the NYU Depth V2 dataset show its outstanding performance.