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Efficient Multi-View Stereo by Iterative Dynamic Cost Volume
Shaoqian Wang, Bo Li, Yuchao Dai
In this paper, we propose a novel iterative dynamic cost volume for multi-view stereo. Compared with other works, our cost volume is much lighter, thus could be processed with 2D convolution based GRU. Notably, the every-step output of the GRU could be further used to generate new cost volume. In this way, an iterative GRU-based optimizer is constructed. Furthermore, we present a cascade and hierarchical refinement architecture to utilize the multi-scale information and speed up the convergence. Specifically, a lightweight 3D CNN is utilized to generate the coarsest initial depth map which is essential to launch the GRU and guarantee a fast convergence. Then the depth map is refined by multi-stage GRUs which work on the pyramid feature maps. Extensive experiments on DTU and Tanks & Temples benchmarks demonstrate that our method could achieve state-of-the-art results in terms of accuracy, speed and memory usage. Code will be released at https://github.com/bdwsq1996/Effi-MVS.
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