Title
Self-Supervised Learning for Monocular Depth Estimation on Minimally Invasive Surgery Scenes
Abstract
Self-supervised learning algorithms that compute depth map from monocular videos have achieved remarkable performance on urban scenes and have been applied extensively. These techniques still face significant challenges, however, when applied directly to endoscopic videos because of the brightness variations from frame to frame and inadequate representation learning during the training phase. Inspired by the optical flow for motion alignment between adjacent frames, we design a AFNet with structural stability loss and residual-based smoothness loss to learn the appearance flow across adjacent frames, which handles the brightness inconsistency issue efficaciously. In addition, we propose a novel self-attention mechanism named feature scaling module to alleviate the inadequate representation learning problem. In a comparison study to the current state-of-the-art self-supervised methods explored for urban videos on the SCARED dataset, the developed model surpasses existing methods by a large margin.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1109/ICRA48506.2021.9561508
2021 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION (ICRA 2021)
DocType
Volume
Issue
Conference
2021
1
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1050-4729
0
0.34
References 
Authors
6
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Shuwei Shao121.05
Zhongcai Pei264.88
Chen Weihai319038.21
Baochang Zhang4113093.76
Xingming Wu572.77
Dianmin Sun633.09
David Doermann74313312.70