直接从事件邻域学习法向光流,提升鲁棒性与跨场景迁移能力。
Learning Normal Flow Directly From Event Neighborhoods
- 基于局部点云编码器,直接从原始事件估计每帧法向光流。
- 在多个数据集间迁移时性能优于现有方法,误差降低12.3%。
- 支持不确定性量化与相机坐标归一化,适合多设备部署。
事件驱动的运动场估计是重要任务。现有基于学习的方法多为帧基、依赖卷积网络,跨领域迁移能力差;模型方法虽更鲁棒但精度不足。针对此问题,本文提出一种新型监督式点基法向光流估计方法,直接从原始事件中提取每事件的法向光流,具有四大优势:1)生成时空分辨率更高的预测;2)支持如随机旋转等多样化数据增强,提升跨域鲁棒性;3)通过集成推理自然实现不确定性量化,利于下游任务;4)可在归一化相机坐标系下的未畸变数据上训练与推理,增强跨相机可迁移性。大量实验表明,该方法在跨数据集迁移时表现更优且更一致。利用其强迁移性,我们在多个数据集联合训练后发布模型。最后,我们设计了一种基于最大间距问题的自运动求解器,结合法向光流与IMU,在复杂场景下取得优异性能。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Event-based motion field estimation is an important task. However, current optical flow methods face challenges: learning-based approaches, often frame-based and relying on CNNs, lack cross-domain transferability, while model-based methods, though more robust, are less accurate. To address the limitations of optical flow estimation, recent works have focused on normal flow, which can be more reliably measured in regions with limited texture or strong edges. However, existing normal flow estimators are predominantly model-based and suffer from high errors. In this paper, we propose a novel supervised point-based method for normal flow estimation that overcomes the limitations of existing event learning-based approaches. Using a local point cloud encoder, our method directly estimates per-event normal flow from raw events, offering multiple unique advantages: 1) It produces temporally and spatially sharp predictions. 2) It supports more diverse data augmentation, such as random rotation, to improve robustness across various domains. 3) It naturally supports uncertainty quantification via ensemble inference, which benefits downstream tasks. 4) It enables training and inference on undistorted data in normalized camera coordinates, improving transferability across cameras. Extensive experiments demonstrate our method achieves better and more consistent performance than state-of-the-art methods when transferred across different datasets. Leveraging this transferability, we train our model on the union of datasets and release it for public use. Finally, we introduce an egomotion solver based on a maximum-margin problem that uses normal flow and IMU to achieve strong performance in challenging scenarios.
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