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LightDepth: a resource efficient depth estimation approach for dealing with ground truth sparsity via curriculum learning

Karimi, F. B ; Sharif University of Technology | 2024

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  1. Type of Document: Article
  2. DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2024.104784
  3. Publisher: 2024
  4. Abstract:
  5. Accurate depth estimation from monocular images is critical for various applications such as robotics, augmented reality, and autonomous navigation. However, achieving high accuracy while maintaining computational efficiency is a major challenge, particularly for resource-constrained devices. In this paper, we present LightDepth, an approach that leverages curriculum learning to estimate depth efficiently while taking into account resource constraints. It modifies the ground truth sparse depth maps from the KITTI dataset by resizing them to 31 extents during training to reduce sparsity and control complexity. The resulting model achieves comparable accuracy to state-of-the-art large models while outperforming them in response time by 71%. Our approach outperforms resource-efficient models regarding depth accuracy (measured by RMSE), achieving a 56% improvement. LightDepth is designed to be fast and resource-efficient, making it suitable for deployment in resource-constrained devices. It also balances the trade-off between accuracy and resource efficiency. All codes are available online at https://github.com/fatemehkarimii/lightdepth. © 2024 Elsevier B.V
  6. Keywords:
  7. Energy efficiency ; Adversarial machine learning ; Autonomous navigation ; Curriculum learning ; Depth estimation ; Energy ; Estimation approaches ; Ground truth ; Monocular depth estimation ; Monocular image ; Resource-efficient ; Resourceconstrained devices ; Contrastive learning
  8. Source: Robotics and Autonomous Systems ; Volume 181 , 2024 ; 09218890 (ISSN)
  9. URL: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0921889024001684