MFuseNet: Robust Depth Estimation with Learned Multiscopic Fusion

We design a multiscopic vision system that utilizes a low-cost monocular RGB camera to acquire accurate depth estimation. Unlike multi-view stereo with images captured at unconstrained camera poses, the proposed system controls the motion of a camera to capture a sequence of images in horizontally or vertically aligned positions with the same parallax. In this system, we propose a new heuristic method and a robust learning-based method to fuse multiple cost volumes between the reference image and its surrounding images. To obtain training data, we build a synthetic dataset with multiscopic images. The experiments on the real-world Middlebury dataset and real robot demonstration show that our multiscopic vision system outperforms traditional two-frame stereo matching methods in depth estimation.

Weihao Yuan, Rui Fan, Michael Yu Wang, Qifeng Chen. “MFuseNet: Robust Depth Estimation with Learned Multiscopic Fusion”, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). IEEE, 2020.
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