Journal
APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL
Volume 13, Issue 12, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/app13127033
Keywords
binocular stereo matching; dense connection; atrous convolution; multi-scale cost aggregation
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The key to image depth estimation is accurately finding corresponding points between the left and right images. Binocular cameras can directly estimate the depth of the image range, avoiding the need for target recognition accuracy in monocular depth estimation. However, accurately segmenting objects and finding matching points in the ill-posed areas of the left and right images is difficult for binocular stereo matching.
The key to image depth estimation is to accurately find corresponding points between the left and right images. A binocular camera can directly estimate the depth of the left and right image range, which completely avoids the requirement of target recognition accuracy in a monocular depth estimation. However, it is difficult for binocular stereo matching to accurately segment objects and find matching points in the ill-posed areas (weak texture, deformation, object edge, etc.) of the left and right images. In the semantic segmentation task, atrous convolution is used to solve the contradiction between the receptive field and the segmentation accuracy. This research focused on balancing the impact of holes on the segmentation task. In addition, in order to solve the issue where matching points in the ill-posed regions of left and right images are affected by noise, we used a 3D convolution to aggregate the cost volume to obtain better accuracy. However, the 3D convolution method is prone to mismatching in ill-posed areas of the image. To tackle the problems above, we proposed a dense grouping atrous convolution spatial pyramid pooling (DenseGASPP) method. The feature of the DenseGASPP method is that there is a dense connection between the group atrous convolutions to fully integrate feature information. This method can expand the receptive field and balance the effect of holes on the segmentation task. Moreover, we introduced multi-scale cost aggregation into our method, which uses the repeated exchange of information between cost volumes of different scales to obtain rich contextual information and reduce the mismatching of the network. To evaluate the performance of our method, we conducted several groups of typical algorithm experiments on the scene flow and KITTI 2015 standard datasets. From the results, our model achieves better performance, reducing the EPE from 1.09 to 0.67, which improves the mismatching ability of binocular depth estimation algorithm in ill-posed regions.
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