Pseudo-Stereo Inputs: A Solution to the Occlusion Challenge in Self-Supervised Stereo Matching

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2410.02534v1
• Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2024 14:40:17 GMT
• Title: Pseudo-Stereo Inputs: A Solution to the Occlusion Challenge in Self-Supervised Stereo Matching
• Authors: Ruizhi Yang, Xingqiang Li, Jiajun Bai, Jinsong Du,
• Abstract summary: Self-supervised stereo matching holds great promise for application and research. Direct self-supervised stereo matching paradigms based on photometric loss functions have consistently struggled with performance issues. We propose a simple yet highly effective pseudo-stereo inputs strategy to address the core occlusion challenge.
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• Abstract: Self-supervised stereo matching holds great promise for application and research due to its independence from expensive labeled data. However, direct self-supervised stereo matching paradigms based on photometric loss functions have consistently struggled with performance issues due to the occlusion challenge. The crux of the occlusion challenge lies in the fact that the positions of occluded pixels consistently align with the epipolar search direction defined by the input stereo images, leading to persistent information loss and erroneous feedback at fixed locations during self-supervised training. In this work, we propose a simple yet highly effective pseudo-stereo inputs strategy to address the core occlusion challenge. This strategy decouples the input and feedback images, compelling the network to probabilistically sample information from both sides of the occluding objects. As a result, the persistent lack of information in the aforementioned fixed occlusion areas is mitigated. Building upon this, we further address feedback conflicts and overfitting issues arising from the strategy. By integrating these components, our method achieves stable and significant performance improvements compared to existing methods. Quantitative experiments are conducted to evaluate the performance. Qualitative experiments further demonstrate accurate disparity inference even at occluded regions. These results demonstrate a significant advancement over previous methods in the field of direct self-supervised stereo matching based on photometric loss. The proposed pseudo-stereo inputs strategy, due to its simplicity and effectiveness, has the potential to serve as a new paradigm for direct self-supervised stereo matching. Code is available at https://github.com/qrzyang/Pseudo-Stereo.

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