Summary of Aoneus: a Neural Rendering Framework For Acoustic-optical Sensor Fusion, by Mohamad Qadri et al.
AONeuS: A Neural Rendering Framework for Acoustic-Optical Sensor Fusion
by Mohamad Qadri, Kevin Zhang, Akshay Hinduja, Michael Kaess, Adithya Pediredla, Christopher A. Metzler
First submitted to arxiv on: 5 Feb 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The proposed framework, called AONeuS, combines high-resolution RGB images with low-resolution depth-resolved imaging sonar data to reconstruct accurate 3D surfaces from measurements captured over limited baselines. This multimodal approach leverages the strengths of both modalities to effectively reconstruct surfaces that are challenging for single-modality methods to capture. The framework is tested through simulations and in-lab experiments, demonstrating significant performance improvements compared to recent RGB-only and sonar-only surface reconstruction methods. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary AONeuS helps robots and machines create a 3D picture of their surroundings using two different kinds of information: what something looks like (RGB images) and how far away it is (sonar data). This combination allows for better results when the robot or machine doesn’t have much space to move. The new method works well even when there’s not much room to get a good look at things. |
