无需标注数据,可跨模态图像对准确估计单应性变换。
Unsupervised Homography Estimation on Multimodal Image Pair via Alternating Optimization
- 通过交替优化交替处理几何差异与模态差异
- 在无真值条件下实现跨模态图像对的单应性估计
- 适用于多种网络结构,适合图像拼接等应用
估计两幅图像间的单应性对中高阶视觉任务(如图像拼接与融合)至关重要。然而,由于真实标签数据难以获取,监督学习方法常面临挑战。为此,无监督学习方法应运而生。但多数早期方法假设图像来自同一相机或仅有轻微光照差异,因此在跨模态图像对(即不同域图像)上表现不佳。为解决此问题,本文提出AltO,一种用于多模态图像对的无监督单应性估计框架。该方法采用类似期望-最大化(EM)的两阶段交替优化机制:一阶段减少几何差异,另一阶段缓解模态差异。为应对这些差异,使用Barlow Twins损失处理模态差距,并提出扩展版本——几何版Barlow Twins(Geometry Barlow Twins)以处理几何差距。实验表明,AltO可在无真值数据下训练,不仅超越现有无监督方法,还兼容多种单应性估计器架构。代码已开源:https://github.com/songsang7/AltO。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Estimating the homography between two images is crucial for mid- or high-level vision tasks, such as image stitching and fusion. However, using supervised learning methods is often challenging or costly due to the difficulty of collecting ground-truth data. In response, unsupervised learning approaches have emerged. Most early methods, though, assume that the given image pairs are from the same camera or have minor lighting differences. Consequently, while these methods perform effectively under such conditions, they generally fail when input image pairs come from different domains, referred to as multimodal image pairs. To address these limitations, we propose AltO, an unsupervised learning framework for estimating homography in multimodal image pairs. Our method employs a two-phase alternating optimization framework, similar to Expectation-Maximization (EM), where one phase reduces the geometry gap and the other addresses the modality gap. To handle these gaps, we use Barlow Twins loss for the modality gap and propose an extended version, Geometry Barlow Twins, for the geometry gap. As a result, we demonstrate that our method, AltO, can be trained on multimodal datasets without any ground-truth data. It not only outperforms other unsupervised methods but is also compatible with various architectures of homography estimators. The source code can be found at:~\url{https://github.com/songsang7/AltO}
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