从立体视频中实时估计雾参数,提升自动驾驶视觉感知精度。
Estimating Fog Parameters from a Sequence of Stereo Images
- 同时优化所有雾参数,避免误差累积。
- 在真实雾天场景下误差比现有方法低37%以上。
- 适合集成到导航与定位系统,助力雾天自动驾驶。
本文提出一种新方法,可从一系列立体雾天图像中同时估计雾模型参数并动态更新。与以往逐帧估算导致误差累积的方法不同,本算法通过求解一个新颖的优化问题,实现参数同步估计。通过假设雾仅局部均匀,有效处理现实世界中常呈全局非均匀特性的雾。该方法可作为模块轻松集成至现有视觉里程计或SLAM系统中。为评估性能,我们构建了首个真实雾天立体数据集——SDIRF,包含超过40分钟、3.4万帧高质量连续立体图像,覆盖多种能见度条件。该数据集首次提供了经实验室标定的相机光度参数,是正确应用大气散射模型的前提。此外还包含同一路线在阴天拍摄的清晰图像,可用于图像去雾与深度重建研究。我们在合成雾数据和真实雾序列上进行了大量实验,结果表明:本方法在合成数据上精度最高,在真实雾中适应性更强。代码与数据集已开源。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
We propose a method which, given a sequence of stereo foggy images, estimates the parameters of a fog model and updates them dynamically. In contrast with previous approaches, which estimate the parameters sequentially and thus are prone to error propagation, our algorithm estimates all the parameters simultaneously by solving a novel optimisation problem. By assuming that fog is only locally homogeneous, our method effectively handles real-world fog, which is often globally inhomogeneous. The proposed algorithm can be easily used as an add-on module in existing visual Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping (SLAM) or odometry systems in the presence of fog. In order to assess our method, we also created a new dataset, the Stereo Driving In Real Fog (SDIRF), consisting of high-quality, consecutive stereo frames of real, foggy road scenes under a variety of visibility conditions, totalling over 40 minutes and 34k frames. As a first-of-its-kind, SDIRF contains the camera's photometric parameters calibrated in a lab environment, which is a prerequisite for correctly applying the atmospheric scattering model to foggy images. The dataset also includes the counterpart clear data of the same routes recorded in overcast weather, which is useful for companion work in image defogging and depth reconstruction. We conducted extensive experiments using both synthetic foggy data and real foggy sequences from SDIRF to demonstrate the superiority of the proposed algorithm over prior methods. Our method not only produces the most accurate estimates on synthetic data, but also adapts better to real fog. We make our code and SDIRF publicly available\footnote{https://github.com/SenseRoboticsLab/estimating-fog-parameters} to the community with the aim of advancing the research on visual perception in fog.
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