학술논문

UMHE: Unsupervised Multispectral Homography Estimation
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Sensors Journal IEEE Sensors J. Sensors Journal, IEEE. 24(10):17259-17268 May, 2024
Subject
Signal Processing and Analysis
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Robotics and Control Systems
Estimation
Task analysis
Training
Sensors
Data augmentation
Object detection
Feature extraction
homography estimation
multispectral image alignment
Language
ISSN
1530-437X
1558-1748
2379-9153
Abstract
Multispectral image alignment plays a crucial role in exploiting complementary information between different spectral images. Homography-based image alignment can be a practical solution considering a tradeoff between runtime and accuracy. Existing methods, however, have difficulty with multispectral images due to the additional spectral gap or require expensive human labels to train models. To solve these problems, this article presents a comprehensive study on multispectral homography estimation in an unsupervised learning manner. We propose a curriculum data augmentation, an effective solution for models learning spectrum-agnostic representation by providing diverse input pairs. We also propose to use the phase congruency loss that explicitly calculates the reconstruction between images based on low-level structural information in the frequency domain. To encourage multispectral alignment research, we introduce a novel FLIR corresponding dataset that has manually labeled local correspondences between multispectral images. Our model achieves state-of-the-art alignment performance on the proposed FLIR correspondence dataset among supervised and unsupervised methods while running at 151 FPS. Furthermore, our model shows good generalization ability on the M3FD dataset without fine-tuning.