Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Estimating depth for a video stream captured with a monocular rgb camera
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Application No.: US16439539Application Date: 2019-06-12
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Publication No.: US10984545B2Publication Date: 2021-04-20
- Inventor: Jinwei Gu , Kihwan Kim , Chao Liu
- Applicant: NVIDIA Corporation
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
- Current Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Agency: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd.
- Main IPC: G06T7/55
- IPC: G06T7/55 ; G06T3/00 ; G06N3/04 ; G06N3/08 ; G06N20/10 ; H04N5/232 ; G06N20/20

Abstract:
Techniques for estimating depth for a video stream captured by a monocular image sensor are disclosed. A sequence of image frames are captured by the monocular image sensor. A first neural network is configured to process at least a portion of the sequence of image frames to generate a depth probability volume. The depth probability volume includes a plurality of probability maps corresponding to a number of discrete depth candidate locations over a range of depths defined for the scene. The depth probability volume can be updated using a second neural network that is configured to generate adaptive gain parameters to integrate the DPVs over time. A third neural network is configured to refine the updated depth probability volume from a lower resolution to a higher resolution that matches the original resolution of the sequence of image frames. A depth map can be calculated based on the depth probability volume.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200160546A1 ESTIMATING DEPTH FOR A VIDEO STREAM CAPTURED WITH A MONOCULAR RGB CAMERA Public/Granted day:2020-05-21
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