We introduce a novel RGB-D patch descriptor designed for detecting coplanar surfaces in SLAM reconstruction. The core of our method is a deep convolutional neural net that takes in RGB, depth, and normal information of a planar patch in an image and outputs a descriptor that can be used to find coplanar patches from other images.We train the network on 10 million triplets of coplanar and non-coplanar patches, and evaluate on a new coplanarity benchmark created from commodity RGB-D scans. Experiments show that our learned descriptor outperforms alternatives extended for this new task by a significant margin. In addition, we demonstrate the benefits of coplanarity matching in a robust RGBD reconstruction formulation.We find that coplanarity constraints detected with our method are sufficient to get reconstruction results comparable to state-of-the-art frameworks on most scenes, but outperform other methods on standard benchmarks when combined with a simple keypoint method.
@article{arxiv.1803.08407,
title = {PlaneMatch: Patch Coplanarity Prediction for Robust RGB-D Reconstruction},
author = {Yifei Shi and Kai Xu and Matthias Niessner and Szymon Rusinkiewicz and Thomas Funkhouser},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.08407},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
ECCV 2018 oral paper; Supplemental material included