BetterDepth: Plug-and-Play Diffusion Refiner for Zero-Shot Monocular Depth Estimation

Xiang Zhang, Bingxin Ke, Hayko Riemenschneider, Nando Metzger, Anton Obukhov, Markus Gross^†, Konrad Schindler, Christopher Schroers^†

[arXiv]

• We propose BetterDepth to boost zero-shot MDE methods with plug-and-play diffusion refiners, achieving robust affine-invariant MDE performance with fine-grained details.
• We design global pre-alignment and local patch masking strategies to enable learning detail refinement from small-scale synthetic datasets while preserving rich prior knowledge from pre-trained MDE models for zero-shot transfer.

HiT-SR: Hierarchical Transformer for Efficient Image Super-Resolution

Xiang Zhang, Yulun Zhang, Fisher Yu

[Code] [Supp] [Video]

• We propose a simple yet effective strategy (HiT-SR) to convert popular transformer-based SR methods to our hierarchical transformers, boosting SR performance by exploiting multi-scale features and long-range dependencies.
• We design a spatial-channel correlation method to efficiently leverage spatial and channel features with linear computational complexity to window sizes, enabling utilization of large hierarchical windows, e.g., $64\times64$ windows.

Generalizing Event-Based Motion Deblurring in Real-World Scenarios

Xiang Zhang, Lei Yu^†, Wen Yang, Jianzhuang Liu, Gui-Song Xia

[Code] [Dataset] [Youtube]

• A scale-aware network is designed to allow flexible setups of input spatial resolutions and enable learning from different temporal scales of motion blur.
• A self-supervised learning framework is proposed for model training with real-world data and performance generalization in spatial and temporal domains.
• A multi-scale real-world blurry dataset (MS-RBD) is constructed to facilitate the evaluation of deblurring performance in real-world scenarios.

Learning to See Through with Events

Lei Yu^†, Xiang Zhang, Wei Liao, Wen Yang, Gui-Song Xia

[Code] [Dataset] [Bilibili]

• An event-based synthetic aperture imaging (E-SAI) algorithm is proposed to see through dense occlusions even under extreme lighting conditions.
• A hybrid network composed of an spiking encoder and a convolutional decoder is designed to mitigate the disturbances from occlusions and guarantee the overall reconstruction performance.

Unifying Motion Deblurring and Frame Interpolation with Events

Xiang Zhang, Lei Yu^†

[Code] [Youtube]

• We present a unified framework for event-based video deblurring and interpolation (EVDI).
• By utilizing the constraints between cross-modal frames and events, a fully self-supervised learning method is proposed to enable network training with real-world data without requiring ground-truth images.