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Self-Supervised Monocular Image Depth Learning and Confidence Estimation

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2018-03-16 v1

Abstract

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) need large amounts of data with ground truth annotation, which is a challenging problem that has limited the development and fast deployment of CNNs for many computer vision tasks. We propose a novel framework for depth estimation from monocular images with corresponding confidence in a self-supervised manner. A fully differential patch-based cost function is proposed by using the Zero-Mean Normalized Cross Correlation (ZNCC) that takes multi-scale patches as a matching strategy. This approach greatly increases the accuracy and robustness of the depth learning. In addition, the proposed patch-based cost function can provide a 0 to 1 confidence, which is then used to supervise the training of a parallel network for confidence map learning and estimation. Evaluation on KITTI dataset shows that our method outperforms the state-of-the-art results.

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@article{arxiv.1803.05530,
  title  = {Self-Supervised Monocular Image Depth Learning and Confidence Estimation},
  author = {Long Chen and Wen Tang and Nigel John},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.05530},
  year   = {2018}
}
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