Full Surround Monodepth From Multiple Cameras

Autor: Vitor Guizilini, Igor Vasiljevic, Rares Ambrus, Greg Shakhnarovich, Adrien Gaidon
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 7:5397-5404
ISSN: 2377-3774
DOI: 10.1109/lra.2022.3150884
Popis: Self-supervised monocular depth and ego-motion estimation is a promising approach to replace or supplement expensive depth sensors such as LiDAR for robotics applications like autonomous driving. However, most research in this area focuses on a single monocular camera or stereo pairs that cover only a fraction of the scene around the vehicle. In this work, we extend monocular self-supervised depth and ego-motion estimation to large-baseline multi-camera rigs. Using generalized spatio-temporal contexts, pose consistency constraints, and carefully designed photometric loss masking, we learn a single network generating dense, consistent, and scale-aware point clouds that cover the same full surround 360 degree field of view as a typical LiDAR scanner. We also propose a new scale-consistent evaluation metric more suitable to multi-camera settings. Experiments on two challenging benchmarks illustrate the benefits of our approach over strong baselines.
Databáze: OpenAIRE