Pandora plugin mccnn

MC-CNN neural network plugin for .

Overview • Install • Usage • Related • References

Overview

Pandora stereo matching framework is designed to provide some state of the art stereo algorithms and to add others one as plugins.
This Pandora plugin aims to compute the cost volume using the similarity measure produced by MC-CNN neural network [MCCNN], with the MCCNN library .

Install

pandora_plugin_mccnn is available on Pypi and can be installed by:

pip install pandora_plugin_mccnn

This command will installed required dependencies as Pandora and MCCNN.

Usage

Let's refer to Pandora's readme or online documentation for further information about Pandora general functionalities.

More specifically, you can find :

• MCCNN configuration file example
• documentation about MCCNN theory and parameters

Pretrained Weights for MCCNN networks

Download weights files

Pretrained weights for mc-cnn fast and mc-cnn accurate neural networks are available in the weights directory :

• mc_cnn_fast_mb_weights.pt and mc_cnn_accurate_mb_weights.pt are the weights of the pretrained networks on the Middlebury dataset [Middlebury]
• mc_cnn_fast_data_fusion_contest.pt and mc_cnn_accurate_data_fusion_contest.pt are the weights of the pretrained networks on the Data Fusion Contest dataset [DFC]

To download the pretrained weights:

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/CNES/Pandora_MCCNN/master/mc_cnn/weights/mc_cnn_fast_mb_weights.pt
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/CNES/Pandora_MCCNN/master/mc_cnn/weights/mc_cnn_fast_data_fusion_contest.pt
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/CNES/Pandora_MCCNN/master/mc_cnn/weights/mc_cnn_accurate_mb_weights.pt
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/CNES/Pandora_MCCNN/master/mc_cnn/weights/mc_cnn_accurate_data_fusion_contest.pt

Access weights from pip package

Pretrained weights are stored into the pip package and downloaded for any installation of mc_cnn pip package. To access it, use the weights submodule :

from mc_cnn.weights import get_weights
mc_cnn_fast_mb_weights_path = get_weights(arch="fast", training_dataset="middlebury")
mc_cnn_fast_data_fusion_contest_path = get_weights(arch="fast", training_dataset="dfc")
mc_cnn_accurate_mb_weights_path = get_weights(arch="accurate", training_dataset="middlebury")
mc_cnn_accurate_data_fusion_contest = get_weights(arch="accurate", training_dataset="dfc")

Output example

The figures below show disparity maps produced on mountain, and desert areas generated with the Census and MCCNN similarity measures :

Left image	Left disparity map using Census measure	Left disparity map using mc-cnn fast pretrained on Middlebury	Left disparity map using mc-cnn fast pretrained DFC

Related

Pandora - A stereo matching framework
MCCNN - Pytorch/python implementation of mc-cnn neural network

References

Please cite the following paper when using Pandora and pandora_plugin_mccnn:

Defonte, V., Dumas, L., Cournet, M., & Sarrazin, E. (2021, July). Evaluation of MC-CNN Based Stereo Matching Pipeline for the CO3D Earth Observation Program. In 2021 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium IGARSS (pp. 7670-7673). IEEE.

Cournet, M., Sarrazin, E., Dumas, L., Michel, J., Guinet, J., Youssefi, D., Defonte, V., Fardet, Q., 2020. Ground-truth generation and disparity estimation for optical satellite imagery. ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences.

[MCCNN] Zbontar, J., & LeCun, Y. (2016). Stereo matching by training a convolutional neural network to compare image patches. J. Mach. Learn. Res., 17(1), 2287-2318.

[Middlebury] Scharstein, D., Hirschmüller, H., Kitajima, Y., Krathwohl, G., Nešić, N., Wang, X., & Westling, P. (2014, September). High-resolution stereo datasets with subpixel-accurate ground truth. In German conference on pattern recognition (pp. 31-42). Springer, Cham.

[DFC] Bosch, M., Foster, K., Christie, G., Wang, S., Hager, G. D., & Brown, M. (2019, January). Semantic stereo for incidental satellite images. In 2019 IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) (pp. 1524-1532). IEEE.