CamLiFlow & CamLiRAFT

This is the official PyTorch implementation for our two papers:

• Conference version: CamLiFlow: Bidirectional Camera-LiDAR Fusion for Joint Optical Flow and Scene Flow Estimation. (CVPR 2022 Oral)

• Extended version (CamLiRAFT): Learning Optical Flow and Scene Flow with Bidirectional Camera-LiDAR Fusion. (TPAMI 2023)

中文解读：https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/616384758

Changes to the Conference Paper

In this extended version, we instantiate a new type of the bidirectional fusion pipeline, the CamLiRAFT based on the recurrent all-pairs field transforms. CamLiRAFT obtains significant performance improvements over the original PWC-based CamLiFlow and sets a new state-of-the-art record on various datasets.

• Comparison with stereo scene flow methods: On FlyingThings3D, CamLiRAFT achieves 1.73 EPE2D and 0.049 EPE3D, 21% and 20% lower error compared to CamLiFlow. On KITTI, even the non-rigid CamLiRAFT performs on par with the previous state-of-the-art method RigidMask (SF-all: 4.97% vs. 4.89%). By refining the background scene flow with rigid priors, CamLiRAFT further achieves an error of 4.26%, ranking first on the leaderboard.

• Comparison with LiDAR-only scene flow methods: The LiDAR-only variant of our method, dubbed CamLiRAFT-L, also outperforms all previous LiDAR-only scene flow methods in terms of both accuracy and speed (see Tab. 5 in the paper). Thus, CamLiRAFT-L can also serve as a strong baseline for LiDAR-only scene flow estimation.

• Comparison on MPI Sintel: Without finetuning on Sintel, CamLiRAFT achieves 2.38 AEPE on the final pass of the Sintel training set, reducing the error by 12% and 18% over RAFT and RAFT-3D respectively. This demonstrates that our method has good generalization performance and can handle non-rigid motion.

• Training schedule: The original CamLiFlow requires a complicated training schedule of Things (L2 loss) -> Things (Robust loss) -> Driving -> KITTI and takes about 10 days to train. CamLiRAFT simplifies the schedule to Things -> KITTI, and the training only takes about 3 days. (Tested on 4x RTX 3090 GPUs)

News

• 2023-11-05: CamLiRAFT is accepted to TPAMI. Thanks for the valuable suggestions from the reviewers!
• 2023-09-20: We provide a demo for CamLiRAFT, see demo.py for more details.
• 2023-03-22: We release CamLiRAFT, an extended version of CamLiFlow on https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.12017.
• 2022-03-29: Our paper is selected for an oral presentation.
• 2022-03-07: We release the code and the pretrained weights.
• 2022-03-03: Our paper is accepted by CVPR 2022.
• 2021-11-20: Our paper is available at https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.10502
• 2021-11-04: Our method ranked first on the leaderboard of KITTI Scene Flow.

Pretrained Weights

Model	Training set	Weights	Comments
CamLiRAFT	Things (80e)	camliraft_things80e.pt	Best generalization performance
CamLiRAFT	Things (150e)	camliraft_things150e.pt	Best performance on Things
CamLiRAFT	Things (150e) -> KITTI (800e)	camliraft_things150e_kitti800e.pt	Best performance on KITTI

Precomputed Results

Here, we provide precomputed results for the submission to the online benchmark of KITTI Scene Flow. * denotes refining the background scene flow with rigid priors.

Model	D1-all	D2-all	Fl-all	SF-all	Link
CamLiFlow	1.81%	3.19%	4.05%	5.62%	camliflow-wo-refine.zip
CamLiFlow *	1.81%	2.95%	3.10%	4.43%	camliflow.zip
CamLiRAFT	1.81%	3.02%	3.43%	4.97%	camliraft-wo-refine.zip
CamLiRAFT *	1.81%	2.94%	2.96%	4.26%	camliraft.zip

Environment

Create a PyTorch environment using conda:

conda create -n camliraft python=3.7
conda activate camliraft
conda install pytorch==1.10.2 torchvision==0.11.3 cudatoolkit=11.3 -c pytorch

Install mmcv and mmdet:

pip install openmim
mim install mmcv-full==1.4.0
mim install mmdet==2.14.0

Install other dependencies:

pip install opencv-python open3d tensorboard hydra-core==1.1.0

Compile CUDA extensions for faster training and evaluation:

cd models/csrc
python setup.py build_ext --inplace

Download the ResNet-50 pretrained on ImageNet-1k:

wget https://download.pytorch.org/models/resnet50-11ad3fa6.pth
mkdir pretrain
mv resnet50-11ad3fa6.pth pretrain/

NG-RANSAC is also required if you want to evaluate on KITTI. Please follow https://github.com/vislearn/ngransac to install the library.

Demo

Then, run the following script to launch a demo of estimating optical flow and scene flow from a pair of images and point clouds:

python demo.py --model camliraft --weights /path/to/camliraft/checkpoint.pt

Note that CamLiRAFT is not very robust to objects at a greater distance, as the network has only been trained on data with a depth of less than 35m. If you are getting bad results on your own data, try scaling the depth of the point cloud to a range of 5 ~ 35m.

Evaluation

FlyingThings3D

First, download and preprocess the dataset (see preprocess_flyingthings3d_subset.py for detailed instructions):

python preprocess_flyingthings3d_subset.py --input_dir /mnt/data/flyingthings3d_subset

Then, download the pretrained weights camliraft_things150e.pt and save it to checkpoints/camliraft_things150e.pt.

Now you can reproduce the results in Table 2 (see the extended paper):

python eval_things.py testset=flyingthings3d_subset model=camliraft ckpt.path=checkpoints/camliraft_things150e.pt

KITTI

First, download the following parts:

• Main data: data_scene_flow.zip
• Calibration files: data_scene_flow_calib.zip
• Disparity estimation (from GA-Net): disp_ganet.zip
• Semantic segmentation (from DDR-Net): semantic_ddr.zip

Unzip them and organize the directory as follows:

datasets/kitti_scene_flow
├── testing
│   ├── calib_cam_to_cam
│   ├── calib_imu_to_velo
│   ├── calib_velo_to_cam
│   ├── disp_ganet
│   ├── flow_occ
│   ├── image_2
│   ├── image_3
│   ├── semantic_ddr
└── training
    ├── calib_cam_to_cam
    ├── calib_imu_to_velo
    ├── calib_velo_to_cam
    ├── disp_ganet
    ├── disp_occ_0
    ├── disp_occ_1
    ├── flow_occ
    ├── image_2
    ├── image_3
    ├── obj_map
    ├── semantic_ddr

Then, download the pretrained weights camliraft_things150e_kitti800e.pt and save it to checkpoints/camliraft_things150e_kitti800e.pt.

To reproduce the results without leveraging rigid-body assumptions (SF-all: 4.97%):

python kitti_submission.py testset=kitti model=camliraft ckpt.path=checkpoints/camliraft_things150e_kitti800e.pt

To reproduce the results with rigid background refinement (SF-all: 4.26%), you need to further refine the background scene flow:

python refine_background.py

Results are saved to submission/testing. The initial non-rigid estimations are indicated by the _initial suffix.

Sintel

First, download the flow dataset from: http://sintel.is.tue.mpg.de and the depth dataset from https://sintel-depth.csail.mit.edu/landing

Unzip them and organize the directory as follows:

datasets/sintel
├── depth
│   ├── README_depth.txt
│   ├── sdk
│   └── training
└── flow
    ├── bundler
    ├── flow_code
    ├── README.txt
    ├── test
    └── training

Then, download the pretrained weights camliraft_things80e.pt and save it to checkpoints/camliraft_things80e.pt.

Now you can reproduce the results in Table 4 (see the extended paper):

python eval_sintel.py testset=sintel model=camliraft ckpt.path=checkpoints/camliraft_things80e.pt

Training

FlyingThings3D

You need to preprocess the FlyingThings3D dataset before training (see preprocess_flyingthings3d_subset.py for detailed instructions).

Train CamLiRAFT on FlyingThings3D (150 epochs):

python train.py trainset=flyingthings3d_subset valset=flyingthings3d_subset model=camliraft

The entire training process takes about 3 days on 4x RTX 3090 GPUs.

KITTI

Finetune the model on KITTI using the weights trained on FlyingThings3D:

python train.py trainset=kitti valset=kitti model=camliraft ckpt.path=checkpoints/camliraft_things150e.pt

The entire training process takes about 0.5 days on 4x RTX 3090 GPUs. We use the last checkpoint (800th) to generate the submission.

Citation

If you find them useful in your research, please cite:

@article{liu2023learning,
  title   = {Learning Optical Flow and Scene Flow with Bidirectional Camera-LiDAR Fusion},
  author  = {Haisong Liu and Tao Lu and Yihui Xu and Jia Liu and Limin Wang},
  journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.12017},
  year    = {2023}
}

@inproceedings{liu2022camliflow,
  title     = {Camliflow: bidirectional camera-lidar fusion for joint optical flow and scene flow estimation},
  author    = {Liu, Haisong and Lu, Tao and Xu, Yihui and Liu, Jia and Li, Wenjie and Chen, Lijun},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition},
  pages     = {5791--5801},
  year      = {2022}
}