Self-Supervised Surround-View Depth Estimation with Volumetric Feature Fusion

2022.11.08

Conference

https://openreview.net/forum?id=0PfIQs-ttQQ

https://github.com/42dot/VFDepth

Publication

  • Title: Self-supervised surround-view depth estimation with volumetric feature fusion
  • Authors: Jung-Hee Kim, Junhwa Hur, Tien Nguyen, Seong-Gyun Jeong
  • Abstract: We present a self-supervised depth estimation approach using a unified volumetric feature fusion for surround-view images. Given a set of surround-view images, our method constructs a volumetric feature map by extracting image feature maps from surround-view images and fuse the feature maps into a shared, unified 3D voxel space. The volumetric feature map then can be used for estimating a depth map at each surround view by projecting it into an image coordinate. A volumetric feature contains 3D information at its local voxel coordinate; thus our method can also synthesize a depth map at arbitrary rotated viewpoints by projecting the volumetric feature map into the target viewpoints. Furthermore, assuming static camera extrinsics in the multi-camera system, we propose to estimate a canonical camera motion from the volumetric feature map. Our method leverages 3D spatio- temporal context to learn metric-scale depth and the canonical camera motion in a self-supervised manner. Our method outperforms the prior arts on DDAD and nuScenes datasets, especially estimating more accurate metric-scale depth and consistent depth between neighboring views.

Jung-Hee Kim | AD Algorithm

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