DiffSF: Diffusion Models for Scene Flow Estimation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05327v3
• Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2024 13:37:08 GMT
• Title: DiffSF: Diffusion Models for Scene Flow Estimation
• Authors: Yushan Zhang, Bastian Wandt, Maria Magnusson, Michael Felsberg,
• Abstract summary: We propose DiffSF that combines transformer-based scene flow estimation with denoising diffusion models. We show that the diffusion process greatly increases the robustness of predictions compared to prior approaches. By sampling multiple times with different initial states, the denoising process predicts multiple hypotheses, which enables measuring the output uncertainty.
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• Abstract: Scene flow estimation is an essential ingredient for a variety of real-world applications, especially for autonomous agents, such as self-driving cars and robots. While recent scene flow estimation approaches achieve a reasonable accuracy, their applicability to real-world systems additionally benefits from a reliability measure. Aiming at improving accuracy while additionally providing an estimate for uncertainty, we propose DiffSF that combines transformer-based scene flow estimation with denoising diffusion models. In the diffusion process, the ground truth scene flow vector field is gradually perturbed by adding Gaussian noise. In the reverse process, starting from randomly sampled Gaussian noise, the scene flow vector field prediction is recovered by conditioning on a source and a target point cloud. We show that the diffusion process greatly increases the robustness of predictions compared to prior approaches resulting in state-of-the-art performance on standard scene flow estimation benchmarks. Moreover, by sampling multiple times with different initial states, the denoising process predicts multiple hypotheses, which enables measuring the output uncertainty, allowing our approach to detect a majority of the inaccurate predictions. The code is available at https://github.com/ZhangYushan3/DiffSF.

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