Shariq Farooq Bhat

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8since 2021 · last 2025
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Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 7 · 2 first-author · 7 since 2021Graphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games · 6 · 2 first-author · 6 since 2021
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2025 Amodal Depth Anything: Amodal Depth Estimation in the Wild
abstract
Amodal depth estimation aims to predict the depth of occluded (invisible) parts of objects in a scene. This task addresses the question of whether models can effectively perceive the geometry of occluded regions based on visible cues. Prior methods primarily rely on synthetic datasets and focus on metric depth estimation, limiting their generalization to real-world settings due to domain shifts and scalability challenges. In this paper, we propose a novel formulation of amodal depth estimation in the wild, focusing on relative depth prediction to improve model generalization across diverse natural images. We introduce a new large-scale dataset, Amodal Depth In the Wild (ADIW), created using a scalable pipeline that leverages segmentation datasets and compositing techniques. Depth maps are generated using large pre-trained depth models, and a scale-and-shift alignment strategy is employed to refine and blend depth predictions, ensuring consistency in ground-truth annotations. To tackle the amodal depth task, we present two complementary frameworks: Amodal-DAV2, a deterministic model based on Depth Anything V2, and Amodal-DepthFM, a generative model that integrates conditional flow matching principles. Our proposed frameworks effectively leverage the capabilities of large pre-trained models with minimal modifications to achieve high-quality amodal depth predictions. Experiments validate our design choices, demonstrating the flexibility of our models in generating diverse, plausible depth structures for occluded regions. Our method achieves a 69.5% improvement in accuracy over the previous SoTA on the ADIW dataset.
Zhenyu Li 0007, Mykola Lavrenyuk, Shariq Farooq Bhat, Peter Wonka
ICCV4
2024 PatchFusion: An End-to-End Tile-Based Framework for High-Resolution Monocular Metric Depth Estimation
abstract
Single image depth estimation is a foundational task in computer vision and generative modeling. However, prevailing depth estimation models grapple with accom-modating the increasing resolutions commonplace in to-day's consumer cameras and devices. Existing high-resolution strategies show promise, but they often face limi-tations, ranging from error propagation to the loss of high-frequency details. We present PatchFusion, a novel tile-based framework with three key components to improve the current state of the art: (1) A patch-wise fusion network that fuses a globally-consistent coarse prediction with finer, in-consistent tiled predictions via high-level feature guidance, (2) A Global-to-Local (G2L) module that adds vital con-text to the fusion network, discarding the need for patch selection heuristics, and (3) A Consistency-Aware Training (CAT) and Inference (CAI) approach, emphasizing patch overlap consistency and thereby eradicating the neces-sity for post-processing. Experiments on Unreal. Stereo 4K, MVS-Synth, and Middleburry 2014 demonstrate that our framework can generate high-resolution depth maps with intricate details. PatchFusion is independent of the base model for depth estimation. Notably, our framework built on top of SOTA ZoeDepth brings improvements for a total of 17.3% and 29.4% in terms of the root mean squared error (RMSE) on UnrealStereo4K and MVS-Synth, respectively.
Zhenyu Li 0007, Shariq Farooq Bhat, Peter Wonka
CVPR2
2024 PatchRefiner: Leveraging Synthetic Data for Real-Domain High-Resolution Monocular Metric Depth Estimation
Zhenyu Li 0007, Shariq Farooq Bhat, Peter Wonka
ECCV (67)2
2024 LLM Blueprint: Enabling Text-to-Image Generation with Complex and Detailed Prompts
abstract
Diffusion-based generative models have significantly advanced text-to-image generation but encounter challenges when processing lengthy and intricate text prompts describing complex scenes with multiple objects. While excelling in generating images from short, single-object descriptions, these models often struggle to faithfully capture all the nuanced details within longer and more elaborate textual inputs. In response, we present a novel approach leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) to extract critical components from text prompts, including bounding box coordinates for foreground objects, detailed textual descriptions for individual objects, and a succinct background context. These components form the foundation of our layout-to-image generation model, which operates in two phases. The initial Global Scene Generation utilizes object layouts and background context to create an initial scene but often falls short in faithfully representing object characteristics as specified in the prompts. To address this limitation, we introduce an Iterative Refinement Scheme that iteratively evaluates and refines box-level content to align them with their textual descriptions, recomposing objects as needed to ensure consistency. Our evaluation on complex prompts featuring multiple objects demonstrates a substantial improvement in recall compared to baseline diffusion models. This is further validated by a user study, underscoring the efficacy of our approach in generating coherent and detailed scenes from intricate textual inputs. Our iterative framework offers a promising solution for enhancing text-to-image generation models' fidelity with lengthy, multifaceted descriptions, opening new possibilities for accurate and diverse image synthesis from textual inputs.
Hanan Gani, Shariq Farooq Bhat, Muzammal Naseer, Salman Khan 0001, Peter Wonka
ICLR2
2022 LocalBins: Improving Depth Estimation by Learning Local Distributions
Shariq Farooq Bhat, Ibraheem Alhashim, Peter Wonka
ECCV (1)1
2022 Self-Supervised Learning of Domain Invariant Features for Depth Estimation
abstract
We tackle the problem of unsupervised synthetic-to-real domain adaptation for single image depth estimation. An essential building block of single image depth estimation is an encoder-decoder task network that takes RGB images as input and produces depth maps as output. In this paper, we propose a novel training strategy to force the task network to learn domain invariant representations in a self-supervised manner. Specifically, we extend self-supervised learning from traditional representation learning, which works on images from a single domain, to domain invariant representation learning, which works on images from two different domains by utilizing an image-to-image translation network. Firstly, we use an image-to-image translation network to transfer domain-specific styles between synthetic and real domains. This style transfer operation allows us to obtain similar images from the different domains. Secondly, we jointly train our task network and Siamese network with the same images from the different domains to obtain domain invariance for the task network. Finally, we fine-tune the task network using labeled synthetic and unlabeled real-world data. Our training strategy yields improved generalization capability in the real-world domain. We carry out an extensive evaluation on two popular datasets for depth estimation, KITTI and Make3D. The results demonstrate that our proposed method outperforms the state-of-the-art on all metrics, e.g. by 14.7% on Sq Rel on KITTI. The source code and model weights will be made available.
Hiroyasu Akada, Shariq Farooq Bhat, Ibraheem Alhashim, Peter Wonka
WACV2
2021 AdaBins: Depth Estimation Using Adaptive Bins
abstract
We address the problem of estimating a high quality dense depth map from a single RGB input image. We start out with a baseline encoder-decoder convolutional neural network architecture and pose the question of how the global processing of information can help improve overall depth estimation. To this end, we propose a transformer-based architecture block that divides the depth range into bins whose center value is estimated adaptively per image. The final depth values are estimated as linear combinations of the bin centers. We call our new building block AdaBins. Our results show a decisive improvement over the state-of-the-art on several popular depth datasets across all metrics. We also validate the effectiveness of the proposed block with an ablation study and provide the code and corresponding pre-trained weights of the new state-of-the-art model.
Shariq Farooq Bhat, Ibraheem Alhashim, Peter Wonka
CVPR1
2021 SketchGen: Generating Constrained CAD Sketches
abstract
Computer-aided design (CAD) is the most widely used modeling approach for technical design. The typical starting point in these designs is 2D sketches which can later be extruded and combined to obtain complex three-dimensional assemblies. Such sketches are typically composed of parametric primitives, such as points, lines, and circular arcs, augmented with geometric constraints linking the primitives, such as coincidence, parallelism, or orthogonality. Sketches can be represented as graphs, with the primitives as nodes and the constraints as edges. Training a model to automatically generate CAD sketches can enable several novel workflows, but is challenging due to the complexity of the graphs and the heterogeneity of the primitives and constraints. In particular, each type of primitive and constraint may require a record of different size and parameter types.We propose SketchGen as a generative model based on a transformer architecture to address the heterogeneity problem by carefully designing a sequential language for the primitives and constraints that allows distinguishing between different primitive or constraint types and their parameters, while encouraging our model to re-use information across related parameters, encoding shared structure. A particular highlight of our work is the ability to produce primitives linked via constraints that enables the final output to be further regularized via a constraint solver. We evaluate our model by demonstrating constraint prediction for given sets of primitives and full sketch generation from scratch, showing that our approach significantly out performs the state-of-the-art in CAD sketch generation.
Wamiq Para, Shariq Farooq Bhat, Paul Guerrero 0001, Niloy J. Mitra, Leonidas J. Guibas, Peter Wonka
NeurIPS2