Monocular depth ordering with occlusion edges extraction and local depth inference

In this paper, a method to infer global depth ordering for monocular images is presented. Firstly a distance metric is defined with color, compactness, entropy and edge features to estimate the difference between pixels and seeds, which can ensure the superpixels to obtain more accurate object contours. To correctly infer local depth relationship, a weighting descriptor is designed that combines edge, T-junction and saliency features to avoid wrong local inference caused by a single feature. Based on the weighting descriptor, a global inference strategy is presented, which not only can promote the performance of global depth ordering, but also can infer the depth relationships correctly between two non-adjacent regions. The simulation results on the BSDS500 dataset, Cornell dataset and NYU 2 dataset demonstrate the effectiveness of the approach.