Unifying Flow, Stereo and Depth Estimation

We present a unified formulation and model for three motion and 3D perception tasks: optical flow, rectified stereo matching and unrectified stereo depth estimation from posed images. Unlike previous specialized architectures for each specific task, we formulate all three tasks as a unified dense co...

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Publié dans:IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence. - 1979. - 45(2023), 11 vom: 21. Nov., Seite 13941-13958
Auteur principal: Xu, Haofei (Auteur)
Autres auteurs: Zhang, Jing, Cai, Jianfei, Rezatofighi, Hamid, Yu, Fisher, Tao, Dacheng, Geiger, Andreas
Format: Article en ligne
Langue:English
Publié: 2023
Accès à la collection:IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence
Sujets:Journal Article
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Résumé:We present a unified formulation and model for three motion and 3D perception tasks: optical flow, rectified stereo matching and unrectified stereo depth estimation from posed images. Unlike previous specialized architectures for each specific task, we formulate all three tasks as a unified dense correspondence matching problem, which can be solved with a single model by directly comparing feature similarities. Such a formulation calls for discriminative feature representations, which we achieve using a Transformer, in particular the cross-attention mechanism. We demonstrate that cross-attention enables integration of knowledge from another image via cross-view interactions, which greatly improves the quality of the extracted features. Our unified model naturally enables cross-task transfer since the model architecture and parameters are shared across tasks. We outperform RAFT with our unified model on the challenging Sintel dataset, and our final model that uses a few additional task-specific refinement steps outperforms or compares favorably to recent state-of-the-art methods on 10 popular flow, stereo and depth datasets, while being simpler and more efficient in terms of model design and inference speed
Description:Date Revised 04.10.2023
published: Print-Electronic
Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE
ISSN:1939-3539
DOI:10.1109/TPAMI.2023.3298645