Active-Passive SimStereo - Benchmarking the Cross-Generalization Capabilities of Deep Learning-based Stereo Methods
Keywords: Active Stereo, Dataset, Deep Learning, Generalization, Stereo Vision
TL;DR: We propose the first dataset of active+passive stereo images to evaluate the generalisation ability of stereo deep learning models.
Abstract: In stereo vision, self-similar or bland regions can make it difficult to match patches between two images. Active stereo-based methods mitigate this problem by projecting a pseudo-random pattern on the scene so that each patch of an image pair can be identified without ambiguity. However, the projected pattern significantly alters the appearance of the image. If this pattern acts as a form of adversarial noise, it could negatively impact the performance of deep learning-based methods, which are now the de-facto standard for dense stereo vision. In this paper, we propose the Active-Passive SimStereo dataset and a corresponding benchmark to evaluate the performance gap between passive and active stereo images for stereo matching algorithms. Using the proposed benchmark and an additional ablation study, we show that the feature extraction and matching modules of a selection of twenty selected deep learning-based stereo matching methods generalize to active stereo without a problem. However, the disparity refinement modules of three of the twenty architectures (ACVNet, CascadeStereo, and StereoNet) are negatively affected by the active stereo patterns due to their reliance on the appearance of the input images.
URL: https://ieee-dataport.org/open-access/active-passive-simstereo
Dataset Url: https://ieee-dataport.org/open-access/active-passive-simstereo
Dataset Embargo: The dataset is already available under a CC-license
License: Creative Commons Attribution [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/]
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