Rada: Robust adversarial data augmentation for camera localization in challenging conditions

J Wang, MRU Saputra, CX Lu, N Trigoni… - 2023 IEEE/RSJ …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and …, 2023ieeexplore.ieee.org
Camera localization is a fundamental problem for many applications in computer vision,
robotics, and autonomy. Despite recent deep learning-based approaches, the lack of
robustness in challenging conditions persists due to changes in appearance caused by
texture-less planes, repeating structures, reflective surfaces, motion blur, and illumination
changes. Data augmentation is an attractive solution, but standard image perturbation
methods fail to improve localization robustness. To address this, we propose RADA, which …
Camera localization is a fundamental problem for many applications in computer vision, robotics, and autonomy. Despite recent deep learning-based approaches, the lack of robustness in challenging conditions persists due to changes in appearance caused by texture-less planes, repeating structures, reflective surfaces, motion blur, and illumination changes. Data augmentation is an attractive solution, but standard image perturbation methods fail to improve localization robustness. To address this, we propose RADA, which concentrates on perturbing the most vulnerable pixels to generate relatively less image perturbations that perplex the network. Our method outperforms previous augmentation techniques, achieving up to twice the accuracy of state-of-the-art models even under ‘unseen’ challenging weather conditions. Videos of our results can be found at https://youtu.be/niOv7-fJeCA. The source code for RADA is publicly available at https://github.com/jialuwang123321/RADA.
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