DistFormer: Enhancing Local and Global Features for Monocular Per-Object Distance Estimation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2401.03191v1
• Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2024 10:56:36 GMT
• Title: DistFormer: Enhancing Local and Global Features for Monocular Per-Object Distance Estimation
• Authors: Aniello Panariello and Gianluca Mancusi and Fedy Haj Ali and Angelo Porrello and Simone Calderara and Rita Cucchiara
• Abstract summary: Per-object distance estimation is crucial in safety-critical applications such as autonomous driving, surveillance, and robotics. Existing approaches rely on two scales: local information (i.e., the bounding box proportions) or global information. Our work aims to strengthen both local and global cues.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Accurate per-object distance estimation is crucial in safety-critical applications such as autonomous driving, surveillance, and robotics. Existing approaches rely on two scales: local information (i.e., the bounding box proportions) or global information, which encodes the semantics of the scene as well as the spatial relations with neighboring objects. However, these approaches may struggle with long-range objects and in the presence of strong occlusions or unusual visual patterns. In this respect, our work aims to strengthen both local and global cues. Our architecture -- named DistFormer -- builds upon three major components acting jointly: i) a robust context encoder extracting fine-grained per-object representations; ii) a masked encoder-decoder module exploiting self-supervision to promote the learning of useful per-object features; iii) a global refinement module that aggregates object representations and computes a joint, spatially-consistent estimation. To evaluate the effectiveness of DistFormer, we conduct experiments on the standard KITTI dataset and the large-scale NuScenes and MOTSynth datasets. Such datasets cover various indoor/outdoor environments, changing weather conditions, appearances, and camera viewpoints. Our comprehensive analysis shows that DistFormer outperforms existing methods. Moreover, we further delve into its generalization capabilities, showing its regularization benefits in zero-shot synth-to-real transfer.

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