학술논문

MonoVINI: Seeing in the Dark with Virtual-World Supervision
Document Type
Conference
Source
2023 RIVF International Conference on Computing and Communication Technologies (RIVF) Computing and Communication Technologies (RIVF), 2023 RIVF International Conference on. :272-277 Dec, 2023
Subject
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Computing and Processing
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Power, Energy and Industry Applications
Robotics and Control Systems
Signal Processing and Analysis
Transportation
Monocular depth estimation
synthetic scene
self-supervised
Language
ISSN
2473-0130
Abstract
Self-supervised learning draws much attention to Monocular depth estimation (MDE) since it is free of LiDAR annotations and addresses the daytime domain impressively. However, its performance degrades in challenging environments such as night-time scenes, where the assumptions about uniform lighting are no longer valid. Most methods alleviate this problem by adversarial discriminative learning, e.g., closing the gap between the daytime and night-time domain. This paper will address MDE for the night-time domain utilizing simulation data. We overcome the equivalent camera constraints by an image warping technique, making this approach not require a new benchmark dataset. Since a significant domain shift exists between real-world and synthetic data, we use a novel adversarial learning method to relieve this problem. This work is a pioneer in using synthetic data to solve the MDE problem for night-time scenarios. The experimental results demonstrate that our approach produces a comparable effect to state-of-the-art methods, which proves this approach has potential for future research.