MonoIndoor++:Towards Better Practice of Self-Supervised Monocular Depth Estimation for Indoor Environments

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2207.08951v1
• Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2022 21:34:43 GMT
• Title: MonoIndoor++:Towards Better Practice of Self-Supervised Monocular Depth Estimation for Indoor Environments
• Authors: Runze Li, Pan Ji, Yi Xu, Bir Bhanu
• Abstract summary: Self-supervised monocular depth estimation has seen significant progress in recent years, especially in outdoor environments. However, depth prediction results are not satisfying in indoor scenes where most of the existing data are captured with hand-held devices. We propose a novel framework-IndoorMono++ to improve the performance of self-supervised monocular depth estimation for indoor environments.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: Self-supervised monocular depth estimation has seen significant progress in recent years, especially in outdoor environments. However, depth prediction results are not satisfying in indoor scenes where most of the existing data are captured with hand-held devices. As compared to outdoor environments, estimating depth of monocular videos for indoor environments, using self-supervised methods, results in two additional challenges: (i) the depth range of indoor video sequences varies a lot across different frames, making it difficult for the depth network to induce consistent depth cues for training; (ii) the indoor sequences recorded with handheld devices often contain much more rotational motions, which cause difficulties for the pose network to predict accurate relative camera poses. In this work, we propose a novel framework-MonoIndoor++ by giving special considerations to those challenges and consolidating a set of good practices for improving the performance of self-supervised monocular depth estimation for indoor environments. First, a depth factorization module with transformer-based scale regression network is proposed to estimate a global depth scale factor explicitly, and the predicted scale factor can indicate the maximum depth values. Second, rather than using a single-stage pose estimation strategy as in previous methods, we propose to utilize a residual pose estimation module to estimate relative camera poses across consecutive frames iteratively. Third, to incorporate extensive coordinates guidance for our residual pose estimation module, we propose to perform coordinate convolutional encoding directly over the inputs to pose networks. The proposed method is validated on a variety of benchmark indoor datasets, i.e., EuRoC MAV, NYUv2, ScanNet and 7-Scenes, demonstrating the state-of-the-art performance.

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