Joint Soft-Hard Attention for Self-Supervised Monocular Depth Estimation. 2021

Chao Fan, and Zhenyu Yin, and Fulong Xu, and Anying Chai, and Feiqing Zhang
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.

In recent years, self-supervised monocular depth estimation has gained popularity among researchers because it uses only a single camera at a much lower cost than the direct use of laser sensors to acquire depth. Although monocular self-supervised methods can obtain dense depths, the estimation accuracy needs to be further improved for better applications in scenarios such as autonomous driving and robot perception. In this paper, we innovatively combine soft attention and hard attention with two new ideas to improve self-supervised monocular depth estimation: (1) a soft attention module and (2) a hard attention strategy. We integrate the soft attention module in the model architecture to enhance feature extraction in both spatial and channel dimensions, adding only a small number of parameters. Unlike traditional fusion approaches, we use the hard attention strategy to enhance the fusion of generated multi-scale depth predictions. Further experiments demonstrate that our method can achieve the best self-supervised performance both on the standard KITTI benchmark and the Make3D dataset.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D001288 Attention Focusing on certain aspects of current experience to the exclusion of others. It is the act of heeding or taking notice or concentrating. Focus of Attention,Selective Attention,Social Attention,Attention Focus,Attention, Selective,Attention, Social,Selective Attentions
D001334 Automobile Driving The effect of environmental or physiological factors on the driver and driving ability. Included are driving fatigue, and the effect of drugs, disease, and physical disabilities on driving. Automobile Drivings,Driving, Automobile,Drivings, Automobile

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