Self-supervised Event-based Monocular Depth Estimation using Cross-modal Consistency

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Autores principales: Zhu, Junyu, Liu, Lina, Jiang, Bofeng, Wen, Feng, Zhang, Hongbo, Li, Wanlong, Liu, Yong
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author Zhu, Junyu
Liu, Lina
Jiang, Bofeng
Wen, Feng
Zhang, Hongbo
Li, Wanlong
Liu, Yong
author_facet Zhu, Junyu
Liu, Lina
Jiang, Bofeng
Wen, Feng
Zhang, Hongbo
Li, Wanlong
Liu, Yong
contents An event camera is a novel vision sensor that can capture per-pixel brightness changes and output a stream of asynchronous ``events''. It has advantages over conventional cameras in those scenes with high-speed motions and challenging lighting conditions because of the high temporal resolution, high dynamic range, low bandwidth, low power consumption, and no motion blur. Therefore, several supervised monocular depth estimation from events is proposed to address scenes difficult for conventional cameras. However, depth annotation is costly and time-consuming. In this paper, to lower the annotation cost, we propose a self-supervised event-based monocular depth estimation framework named EMoDepth. EMoDepth constrains the training process using the cross-modal consistency from intensity frames that are aligned with events in the pixel coordinate. Moreover, in inference, only events are used for monocular depth prediction. Additionally, we design a multi-scale skip-connection architecture to effectively fuse features for depth estimation while maintaining high inference speed. Experiments on MVSEC and DSEC datasets demonstrate that our contributions are effective and that the accuracy can outperform existing supervised event-based and unsupervised frame-based methods.
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spellingShingle Self-supervised Event-based Monocular Depth Estimation using Cross-modal Consistency
Zhu, Junyu
Liu, Lina
Jiang, Bofeng
Wen, Feng
Zhang, Hongbo
Li, Wanlong
Liu, Yong
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
An event camera is a novel vision sensor that can capture per-pixel brightness changes and output a stream of asynchronous ``events''. It has advantages over conventional cameras in those scenes with high-speed motions and challenging lighting conditions because of the high temporal resolution, high dynamic range, low bandwidth, low power consumption, and no motion blur. Therefore, several supervised monocular depth estimation from events is proposed to address scenes difficult for conventional cameras. However, depth annotation is costly and time-consuming. In this paper, to lower the annotation cost, we propose a self-supervised event-based monocular depth estimation framework named EMoDepth. EMoDepth constrains the training process using the cross-modal consistency from intensity frames that are aligned with events in the pixel coordinate. Moreover, in inference, only events are used for monocular depth prediction. Additionally, we design a multi-scale skip-connection architecture to effectively fuse features for depth estimation while maintaining high inference speed. Experiments on MVSEC and DSEC datasets demonstrate that our contributions are effective and that the accuracy can outperform existing supervised event-based and unsupervised frame-based methods.
title Self-supervised Event-based Monocular Depth Estimation using Cross-modal Consistency
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.07218