NAIMA: Semantics Aware RGB Guided Depth Super-Resolution

Abstract:Guided depth super-resolution (GDSR) is a multi-modal approach for depth map super-resolution that relies on a low-resolution depth map and a high-resolution RGB image to restore finer structural details. However, the misleading color and texture cues indicating depth discontinuities in RGB images often lead to artifacts and blurred depth boundaries in the generated depth map. Recent methods counter this by drawing priors from large pretrained models, but these priors enter the network as decoded predictions such as relative depth, surface normal, or segmentation maps, coupling restoration quality to the accuracy of the decoded prior and requiring auxiliary objectives. We propose a solution that introduces global contextual semantic priors, generated from pretrained vision transformer token embeddings, injecting them directly into the depth branch. Our Guided Token Attention (GTA) module lets multi-level depth encodings act as queries of cross-attention over semantic tokens drawn from progressively deeper layers of the pretrained visual transformer (ViT), scaled by a zero-initialized gate that admits semantic evidence only to the extent that it reduces reconstruction error. The resulting token-to-depth correspondence is aligned implicitly, through learned attention under a single reconstruction loss, rather than through an explicit alignment or distribution-matching objective. Building on this, we present Neural Attention with Implicit Multi-token Alignment (NAIMA), which, to the best of our knowledge, is the first GDSR framework guided by undecoded semantic tokens. NAIMA remains competitive in-distribution while achieving the strongest cross-dataset generalization.

Image and Video Processing (eess.IV); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Multimedia (cs.MM)

arXiv:2604.04407 [eess.IV]

(or arXiv:2604.04407v2 [eess.IV] for this version)

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