深度估計是電腦視覺的重要領域之一,各類型無人載具或是自動駕駛等領域都需要使用到這項技術。近些年來機器學習領域蓬勃發展,深度估計這項技術也受益於機器學習的加持,以卷積神經網路或是 Vision Tramsformer 為基礎設計的深度估計網路架構可以達到非常優秀的精確度,但類似的神經網路架構都非常龐大,且需要大量的運算資源以及功耗才能計算出深度估計的結果,過往沒有以幀為基礎的深度估計突波神經網路的相關研究,故我們基於實驗室過去的研究結果,設計出以光流為基礎的神經網路算法,以非常簡單的架構便可以產生深度估計的結果,且相較於其他的神經網路架構,我們所設計的架構可以極快的速度運算出深度估計的結果。接著,我們再度簡化了神經網路,並將其應用於低功耗的裝置上,測試此深度估計結果應用於障礙物迴避任務的表現,也獲取了不錯的結果,進一步展現了此神經網路架構的輕量化以及實用性。

Depth estimation is one of the important techniques in computer vision, various types of unmanned vehicles or autonomous vehicles necessitate this technology. Recently, the machine learning technology is growing fast, depth estimation technology also benefits from the support of machine learning, The convolutional neural networks- based or Vision Tramsformer-based design of depth estimation network architecture can achieve outstanding performance for the mission. However, the calculation load for such neural network architectures is heavy, requiring a large amount of resources and energy to estimate the depth. Compared with other neural network architectures, our architecture obtains the depth much faster. We also put it into practice for edge computing. The simplified neural network can be implemented in a low power device to perform depth estimation and obstacle avoidance task with great performance, further demonstrating the lightweight and practicality of this neural network architecture.

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