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We propose an efficient multi-view stereo (MVS) network for inferring depth value from multiple RGB images. Recent studies use the cost volume to encode the matching correspondence between different views, but this structure can still be optimized from the perspective of image features. First of all, to fully aggregate the dominant interrelationship from input images, we introduce a self-attention mechanism to our feature extractor, which can accurately model long-range dependencies between adjacent pixels. Secondly, to unify the extracted feature maps into the MVS problem, we further design an efficient feature-wise loss function, which constrains the corresponding feature vectors more spatially distinctive during training. The robustness and accuracy of the reconstructed point cloud are improved by enhancing the reliability of correspondence matches. Finally, to reduce the extra memory burden caused by the above methods, we follow the coarse to fine strategy. The group-wise correlation and uncertainty estimates are combined to construct a lightweight cost volume. This can improve the efficiency and generalization performance of the network while ensuring the reconstruction effect. We further combine the previous steps to get what we called attention thin volume. Quantitative and qualitative experiments are presented to demonstrate the performance of our model.
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The authors would like to thank all anonymous reviewers. This work was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China [grant number 2021YFF0901203].
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Wan, Z., Xu, C., Hu, J., Xiao, J., Meng, Z., Chen, J. (2022). Multi-view Stereo Network with Attention Thin Volume. In: Khanna, S., Cao, J., Bai, Q., Xu, G. (eds) PRICAI 2022: Trends in Artificial Intelligence. PRICAI 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13631. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20868-3_30
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