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PST900: RGB-Thermal Calibration, Dataset and Segmentation Network

20 Sep 2019arXiv:1909.10980archive 2025-07-28

Shreyas S. Shivakumar, Neil Rodrigues, Alex Zhou, Ian D. Miller, Vijay Kumar, Camillo J. Taylor

In this work we propose long wave infrared (LWIR) imagery as a viable supporting modality for semantic segmentation using learning-based techniques. We first address the problem of RGB-thermal camera calibration by proposing a passive calibration target and procedure that is both portable and easy to use. Second, we present PST900, a dataset of 894 synchronized and calibrated RGB and Thermal image pairs with per pixel human annotations across four distinct classes from the DARPA Subterranean Challenge. Lastly, we propose a CNN architecture for fast semantic segmentation that combines both RGB and Thermal imagery in a way that leverages RGB imagery independently. We compare our method against the state-of-the-art and show that our method outperforms them in our dataset.

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Camera CalibrationSegmentationSemantic SegmentationThermal Image Segmentation

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Thermal Image Segmentation MFN Dataset PST900 mIOU 48.4 #43 of 55 Archive leaderboard report
Thermal Image Segmentation PST900 PSTNet mIoU 68.4 #18 of 22 Archive leaderboard report

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