Abstract: Abstract: Focusing on the poor robustness and lower accuracy in traditional methods of estimating depth in monocular vision, a method based on convolution neural network (CNN) is proposed for predicting depth from a single image. At first, fused-layers encoder-decoder network is presented. This network is an improvement of the end-to-end encoder-decoder network structure. Fused-layers block is added to encoder network, and the network utilization of multi-scale information is improved by this block with fusing multi-layers feature. Then, a multi-receptive field res-block is proposed, which is the main component of the decoder and used for estimating depth from high-level semantic information. Meanwhile, the network capacity of multi-scale feature extraction is enhanced because the size of receptive field is flexible to change in multi-receptive field res-block. The validation of proposed network is conducted on NYUD v2 dataset, and compared with multi-scale convolution neural network, experimental results show that the accuracy of proposed method is improved by about 4.4% in δ<1.25 and average relative error is reduced by about 8.2%. The feasibility of proposed method in estimating depth from a single image is proved.

Key words: Keywords: CNN, encoder-decoder, depth estimation, monocular vision