EG360: Efficient and Generalizable $360^\circ$ Depth Estimation via Adaptive Panorama-Perspective Distillation and Spherical Cross-Level Feature Fusion
Laiyan Ding, Chongxi Meng, Rui Huang
原文摘要
Generalized panorama depth estimation has witnessed great advances in recent years. These methods typically achieve robust zero-shot generalization performance using large pretrained models, but their high computational cost makes real-time inference on embedded platforms challenging. In contrast, previous lightweight panorama models have mostly been developed for single-domain evaluations and cannot generalize well due to domain shifts. To reduce the gap between these two types of models, we introduce EG360, an efficient and generalizable panorama depth estimation model. Specifically, building on a lightweight depth model, we design an Adaptive Panorama-Perspective Distillation (APPD) strategy guided by scene geometry, along with a Spherical Cross-Level Feature Fusion (SCFF) module for global semantic perception. As a result, with only 6.593M parameters after reparameterization, EG360 achieves strong zero-shot performance on real-world benchmarks and runs at 35 FPS on a Jetson Orin NX 16GB in MAXN mode, whereas a previous ViT-small model runs at less than 2 FPS. Our code will also be made public for future research.
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