Learnable Differencing Center for Nighttime Depth Perception

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2306.14538v4
• Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2023 15:35:19 GMT
• Title: Learnable Differencing Center for Nighttime Depth Perception
• Authors: Zhiqiang Yan and Yupeng Zheng and Chongyi Li and Jun Li and Jian Yang
• Abstract summary: We propose a simple yet effective framework called LDCNet. Our key idea is to use Recurrent Inter-Convolution Differencing (RICD) and Illumination-Affinitive Intra-Convolution Differencing (IAICD) to enhance the nighttime color images. On both nighttime depth completion and depth estimation tasks, extensive experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of our LDCNet.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Depth completion is the task of recovering dense depth maps from sparse ones, usually with the help of color images. Existing image-guided methods perform well on daytime depth perception self-driving benchmarks, but struggle in nighttime scenarios with poor visibility and complex illumination. To address these challenges, we propose a simple yet effective framework called LDCNet. Our key idea is to use Recurrent Inter-Convolution Differencing (RICD) and Illumination-Affinitive Intra-Convolution Differencing (IAICD) to enhance the nighttime color images and reduce the negative effects of the varying illumination, respectively. RICD explicitly estimates global illumination by differencing two convolutions with different kernels, treating the small-kernel-convolution feature as the center of the large-kernel-convolution feature in a new perspective. IAICD softly alleviates local relative light intensity by differencing a single convolution, where the center is dynamically aggregated based on neighboring pixels and the estimated illumination map in RICD. On both nighttime depth completion and depth estimation tasks, extensive experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of our LDCNet, reaching the state of the art.

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