Title
Hms-Net: Hierarchical Multi-Scale Sparsity-Invariant Network For Sparse Depth Completion
Abstract
Dense depth cues are important and have wide applications in various computer vision tasks. In autonomous driving, LIDAR sensors are adopted to acquire depth measurements around the vehicle to perceive the surrounding environments. However, depth maps obtained by LIDAR are generally sparse because of its hardware limitation. The task of depth completion attracts increasing attention, which aims at generating a dense depth map from an input sparse depth map. To effectively utilize multi-scale features, we propose three novel sparsity-invariant operations, based on which, a sparsity-invariant multi-scale encoder-decoder network (HMS-Net) for handling sparse inputs and sparse feature maps is also proposed. Additional RGB features could be incorporated to further improve the depth completion performance. Our extensive experiments and component analysis on two public benchmarks, KITTI depth completion benchmark and NYU-depth-v2 dataset, demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach. As of Aug. 12th, 2018, on KITTI depth completion leaderboard, our proposed model without RGB guidance ranks 1st among all peer-reviewed methods without using RGB information, and our model with RGB guidance ranks 2nd among all RGB-guided methods.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/TIP.2019.2960589
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON IMAGE PROCESSING
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Depth completion, convolutional neural network, sparsity-invariant operations
Journal
29
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
1057-7149
4
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.45
15
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Zixuan Huang150.79
Junming Fan240.45
Shenggan Cheng341.12
Shuai Yi416714.21
Xiaogang Wang5918.84
Hongsheng Li6151685.29