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Unsupervised Monocular Depth Learning in Dynamic Scenes

30 Oct 2020arXiv:2010.16404archive 2025-07-28

Hanhan Li, Ariel Gordon, Hang Zhao, Vincent Casser, Anelia Angelova

We present a method for jointly training the estimation of depth, ego-motion, and a dense 3D translation field of objects relative to the scene, with monocular photometric consistency being the sole source of supervision. We show that this apparently heavily underdetermined problem can be regularized by imposing the following prior knowledge about 3D translation fields: they are sparse, since most of the scene is static, and they tend to be constant for rigid moving objects. We show that this regularization alone is sufficient to train monocular depth prediction models that exceed the accuracy achieved in prior work for dynamic scenes, including methods that require semantic input. Code is at https://github.com/google-research/google-research/tree/master/depth_and_motion_learning .

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