Attentive Multimodal Fusion for Optical and Scene Flow
Youjie Zhou Guofeng Mei Yiming Wang Fabio Poiesi Yi Wan
This paper presents an investigation into the estimation of optical and scene
flow using RGBD information in scenarios where the RGB modality is affected by
noise or captured in dark environments. Existing methods typically rely solely
on RGB images or fuse the modalities at later stages, which can result in lower
accuracy when the RGB information is unreliable. To address this issue, we
propose a novel deep neural network approach named FusionRAFT, which enables
early-stage information fusion between sensor modalities (RGB and depth). Our
approach incorporates self- and cross-attention layers at different network
levels to construct informative features that leverage the strengths of both
modalities. Through comparative experiments, we demonstrate that our approach
outperforms recent methods in terms of performance on the synthetic dataset
Flyingthings3D, as well as the generalization on the real-world dataset KITTI.
We illustrate that our approach exhibits improved robustness in the presence of
noise and low-lighting conditions that affect the RGB images. We release the
code, models and dataset at https://github.com/jiesico/FusionRAFT.