PanoGaborによる360度深度推定の再検討：新しい融合の視点

Depth estimation from a monocular 360 image is important to the perception of the entire 3D environment. However, the inherent distortion and large field of view (FoV) in 360 images pose great challenges for this task. To this end, existing mainstream solutions typically introduce additional perspective-based 360 representations (e.g., Cubemap) to achieve effective feature extraction. Nevertheless, regardless of the introduced representations, they eventually need to be unified into the equirectangular projection (ERP) format for the subsequent depth estimation, which inevitably reintroduces additional distortions. In this work, we propose an oriented-distortion-aware Gabor Fusion framework (PGFuse) to address the above challenges. First, we introduce Gabor filters that analyze texture in the frequency domain, extending the receptive fields and enhancing depth cues. To address the reintroduced distortions, we design a latitude-aware distortion representation to generate customized, distortion-aware Gabor filters (PanoGabor filters). Furthermore, we design a channel- wise and spatial- wise unidirectional fusion module (CS-UFM) that integrates the proposed PanoGabor filters to unify other representations into the ERP format, delivering effective and distortion-aware features. Considering the orientation sensitivity of the Gabor transform, we further introduce a spherical gradient constraint to stabilize this sensitivity. Experimental results on three popular indoor 360 benchmarks demonstrate the superiority of the proposed PGFuse to existing state-of-the-art solutions. Code and models will be available at https://github.com/zhijieshen-bjtu/PGFuse.