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RVMDE: Radar Validated Monocular Depth Estimation for Robotics
Muhamamd Ishfaq Hussain, Muhammad Aasim Rafique, Moongu Jeon
Stereoscopy exposits a natural perception of distance in a scene, and its manifestation in 3D world understanding is an intuitive phenomenon. However, an innate rigid calibration of binocular vision sensors is crucial for accurate depth estimation. Alternatively, a monocular camera alleviates the limitation at the expense of accuracy in estimating depth, and the challenge exacerbates in harsh environmental conditions. Moreover, an optical sensor often fails to acquire vital signals in harsh environments, and radar is used instead, which gives coarse but more accurate signals. This work explores the utility of coarse signals from radar when fused with fine-grained data from a monocular camera for depth estimation in harsh environmental conditions. A variant of feature pyramid network (FPN) extensively operates on fine-grained image features at multiple scales with a fewer number of parameters. FPN feature maps are fused with sparse radar features extracted with a Convolutional neural network. The concatenated hierarchical features are used to predict the depth with ordinal regression. We performed experiments on the nuScenes dataset, and the proposed architecture stays on top in quantitative evaluations with reduced parameters and faster inference. The depth estimation results suggest that the proposed techniques can be used as an alternative to stereo depth estimation in critical applications in robotics and self-driving cars. The source code will be available in the following: \url{https://github.com/MI-Hussain/RVMDE}.
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