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Main Authors: Tang, Guanfeng, Wu, Zhiyuan, Li, Jiahang, Zhong, Ping, Ye, We, Chen, Xieyuanli, Lu, Huiming, Fan, Rui
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.18038
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author Tang, Guanfeng
Wu, Zhiyuan
Li, Jiahang
Zhong, Ping
Ye, We
Chen, Xieyuanli
Lu, Huiming
Fan, Rui
author_facet Tang, Guanfeng
Wu, Zhiyuan
Li, Jiahang
Zhong, Ping
Ye, We
Chen, Xieyuanli
Lu, Huiming
Fan, Rui
contents Semantic segmentation and stereo matching, respectively analogous to the ventral and dorsal streams in our human brain, are two key components of autonomous driving perception systems. Addressing these two tasks with separate networks is no longer the mainstream direction in developing computer vision algorithms, particularly with the recent advances in large vision models and embodied artificial intelligence. The trend is shifting towards combining them within a joint learning framework, especially emphasizing feature sharing between the two tasks. The major contributions of this study lie in comprehensively tightening the coupling between semantic segmentation and stereo matching. Specifically, this study introduces three novelties: (1) a tightly coupled, gated feature fusion strategy, (2) a hierarchical deep supervision strategy, and (3) a coupling tightening loss function. The combined use of these technical contributions results in TiCoSS, a state-of-the-art joint learning framework that simultaneously tackles semantic segmentation and stereo matching. Through extensive experiments on the KITTI and vKITTI2 datasets, along with qualitative and quantitative analyses, we validate the effectiveness of our developed strategies and loss function, and demonstrate its superior performance compared to prior arts, with a notable increase in mIoU by over 9%. Our source code will be publicly available at mias.group/TiCoSS upon publication.
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spellingShingle TiCoSS: Tightening the Coupling between Semantic Segmentation and Stereo Matching within A Joint Learning Framework
Tang, Guanfeng
Wu, Zhiyuan
Li, Jiahang
Zhong, Ping
Ye, We
Chen, Xieyuanli
Lu, Huiming
Fan, Rui
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Robotics
Semantic segmentation and stereo matching, respectively analogous to the ventral and dorsal streams in our human brain, are two key components of autonomous driving perception systems. Addressing these two tasks with separate networks is no longer the mainstream direction in developing computer vision algorithms, particularly with the recent advances in large vision models and embodied artificial intelligence. The trend is shifting towards combining them within a joint learning framework, especially emphasizing feature sharing between the two tasks. The major contributions of this study lie in comprehensively tightening the coupling between semantic segmentation and stereo matching. Specifically, this study introduces three novelties: (1) a tightly coupled, gated feature fusion strategy, (2) a hierarchical deep supervision strategy, and (3) a coupling tightening loss function. The combined use of these technical contributions results in TiCoSS, a state-of-the-art joint learning framework that simultaneously tackles semantic segmentation and stereo matching. Through extensive experiments on the KITTI and vKITTI2 datasets, along with qualitative and quantitative analyses, we validate the effectiveness of our developed strategies and loss function, and demonstrate its superior performance compared to prior arts, with a notable increase in mIoU by over 9%. Our source code will be publicly available at mias.group/TiCoSS upon publication.
title TiCoSS: Tightening the Coupling between Semantic Segmentation and Stereo Matching within A Joint Learning Framework
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.18038