Unsupervised confidence for LiDAR depth maps and applications

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2210.03118v1
• Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2022 17:59:58 GMT
• Title: Unsupervised confidence for LiDAR depth maps and applications
• Authors: Andrea Conti, Matteo Poggi, Filippo Aleotti and Stefano Mattoccia
• Abstract summary: We propose an effective unsupervised framework aimed at addressing the issue of sparse LiDAR depth maps. Our framework estimates the confidence of the sparse depth map and thus allows for filtering out the outliers. We demonstrate how this achievement can improve a wide range of tasks.
• Score: 43.474845978673166
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Depth perception is pivotal in many fields, such as robotics and autonomous driving, to name a few. Consequently, depth sensors such as LiDARs rapidly spread in many applications. The 3D point clouds generated by these sensors must often be coupled with an RGB camera to understand the framed scene semantically. Usually, the former is projected over the camera image plane, leading to a sparse depth map. Unfortunately, this process, coupled with the intrinsic issues affecting all the depth sensors, yields noise and gross outliers in the final output. Purposely, in this paper, we propose an effective unsupervised framework aimed at explicitly addressing this issue by learning to estimate the confidence of the LiDAR sparse depth map and thus allowing for filtering out the outliers. Experimental results on the KITTI dataset highlight that our framework excels for this purpose. Moreover, we demonstrate how this achievement can improve a wide range of tasks.

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