Metrically Scaled Monocular Depth Estimation through Sparse Priors for Underwater Robots

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2310.16750v1
• Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2023 16:32:31 GMT
• Title: Metrically Scaled Monocular Depth Estimation through Sparse Priors for Underwater Robots
• Authors: Luca Ebner, Gideon Billings, Stefan Williams
• Abstract summary: We formulate a deep learning model that fuses sparse depth measurements from triangulated features to improve the depth predictions. The network is trained in a supervised fashion on the forward-looking underwater dataset, FLSea. The method achieves real-time performance, running at 160 FPS on a laptop GPU and 7 FPS on a single CPU core.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: In this work, we address the problem of real-time dense depth estimation from monocular images for mobile underwater vehicles. We formulate a deep learning model that fuses sparse depth measurements from triangulated features to improve the depth predictions and solve the problem of scale ambiguity. To allow prior inputs of arbitrary sparsity, we apply a dense parameterization method. Our model extends recent state-of-the-art approaches to monocular image based depth estimation, using an efficient encoder-decoder backbone and modern lightweight transformer optimization stage to encode global context. The network is trained in a supervised fashion on the forward-looking underwater dataset, FLSea. Evaluation results on this dataset demonstrate significant improvement in depth prediction accuracy by the fusion of the sparse feature priors. In addition, without any retraining, our method achieves similar depth prediction accuracy on a downward looking dataset we collected with a diver operated camera rig, conducting a survey of a coral reef. The method achieves real-time performance, running at 160 FPS on a laptop GPU and 7 FPS on a single CPU core and is suitable for direct deployment on embedded systems. The implementation of this work is made publicly available at https://github.com/ebnerluca/uw_depth.

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