Learning to solve nonlinear least squares for monocular stereo
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Author(s)
Clark, R
Bloesch, M
Czarnowski, J
Leutenegger, S
Davison, AJ
Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
Sum-of-squares objective functions are very popular in computer vision algorithms. However, these objective functions are not always easy to optimize. The underlying assumptions made by solvers are often not satisfied and many problems are inherently ill-posed. In this paper, we propose a neural nonlinear least squares optimization algorithm which learns to effectively optimize these cost functions even in the presence of adversities. Unlike traditional approaches, the proposed solver requires no hand-crafted regularizers or priors as these are implicitly learned from the data. We apply our method to the problem of motion stereo ie. jointly estimating the motion and scene geometry from pairs of images of a monocular sequence. We show that our learned optimizer is able to efficiently and effectively solve this challenging optimization problem.
Date Issued
2018-10-07
Date Acceptance
2018-09-08
Citation
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 2018, 11212 LNCS, pp.291-306
ISBN
9783030012366
ISSN
0302-9743
Publisher
Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018
Start Page
291
End Page
306
Journal / Book Title
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume
11212 LNCS
Copyright Statement
© 2018 Springer-Verlag. The final publication is available at Springer via https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01237-3_18.
Sponsor
Dyson Technology Limited
Grant Number
PO 4500421830
Source
15th European Conference on Computer Vision
Subjects
08 Information And Computing Sciences
Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing
Publication Status
Published
Start Date
2018-09-08
Finish Date
2018-09-14
Coverage Spatial
Munich, Germany
Date Publish Online
2018-10-07