DarSwin-Unet: Distortion Aware Encoder-Decoder Architecture

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Main Authors: Athwale, Akshaya, Shili, Ichrak, Bergeron, Émile, Ahmad, Ola, Lalonde, Jean-François
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author Athwale, Akshaya
Shili, Ichrak
Bergeron, Émile
Ahmad, Ola
Lalonde, Jean-François
author_facet Athwale, Akshaya
Shili, Ichrak
Bergeron, Émile
Ahmad, Ola
Lalonde, Jean-François
contents Wide-angle fisheye images are becoming increasingly common for perception tasks in applications such as robotics, security, and mobility (e.g. drones, avionics). However, current models often either ignore the distortions in wide-angle images or are not suitable to perform pixel-level tasks. In this paper, we present an encoder-decoder model based on a radial transformer architecture that adapts to distortions in wide-angle lenses by leveraging the physical characteristics defined by the radial distortion profile. In contrast to the original model, which only performs classification tasks, we introduce a U-Net architecture, DarSwin-Unet, designed for pixel level tasks. Furthermore, we propose a novel strategy that minimizes sparsity when sampling the image for creating its input tokens. Our approach enhances the model capability to handle pixel-level tasks in wide-angle fisheye images, making it more effective for real-world applications. Compared to other baselines, DarSwin-Unet achieves the best results across different datasets, with significant gains when trained on bounded levels of distortions (very low, low, medium, and high) and tested on all, including out-of-distribution distortions. We demonstrate its performance on depth estimation and show through extensive experiments that DarSwin-Unet can perform zero-shot adaptation to unseen distortions of different wide-angle lenses.
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spellingShingle DarSwin-Unet: Distortion Aware Encoder-Decoder Architecture
Athwale, Akshaya
Shili, Ichrak
Bergeron, Émile
Ahmad, Ola
Lalonde, Jean-François
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Wide-angle fisheye images are becoming increasingly common for perception tasks in applications such as robotics, security, and mobility (e.g. drones, avionics). However, current models often either ignore the distortions in wide-angle images or are not suitable to perform pixel-level tasks. In this paper, we present an encoder-decoder model based on a radial transformer architecture that adapts to distortions in wide-angle lenses by leveraging the physical characteristics defined by the radial distortion profile. In contrast to the original model, which only performs classification tasks, we introduce a U-Net architecture, DarSwin-Unet, designed for pixel level tasks. Furthermore, we propose a novel strategy that minimizes sparsity when sampling the image for creating its input tokens. Our approach enhances the model capability to handle pixel-level tasks in wide-angle fisheye images, making it more effective for real-world applications. Compared to other baselines, DarSwin-Unet achieves the best results across different datasets, with significant gains when trained on bounded levels of distortions (very low, low, medium, and high) and tested on all, including out-of-distribution distortions. We demonstrate its performance on depth estimation and show through extensive experiments that DarSwin-Unet can perform zero-shot adaptation to unseen distortions of different wide-angle lenses.
title DarSwin-Unet: Distortion Aware Encoder-Decoder Architecture
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.17328