The Differentiable Lens: Compound Lens Search over Glass Surfaces and Materials for Object Detection

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العنوان: The Differentiable Lens: Compound Lens Search over Glass Surfaces and Materials for Object Detection
المؤلفون: Geoffroi Côté (9160970), Fahim Mannan (14365416), Simon Thibault (4232179), Jean-François Lalonde (9160973), Felix Heide (5514140)
سنة النشر: 2022
مصطلحات موضوعية: Computer Science (arXiv), Physics (arXiv), cs.CV (arXiv), physics.optics (arXiv)
الوصف: Most camera lens systems are designed in isolation, separately from downstream computer vision methods. Recently, joint optimization approaches that design lenses alongside other components of the image acquisition and processing pipeline -- notably, downstream neural networks -- have achieved improved imaging quality or better performance on vision tasks. However, these existing methods optimize only a subset of lens parameters and cannot optimize glass materials given their categorical nature. In this work, we develop a differentiable spherical lens simulation model that accurately captures geometrical aberrations. We propose an optimization strategy to address the challenges of lens design -- notorious for non-convex loss function landscapes and many manufacturing constraints -- that are exacerbated in joint optimization tasks. Specifically, we introduce quantized continuous glass variables to facilitate the optimization and selection of glass materials in an end-to-end design context, and couple this with carefully designed constraints to support manufacturability. In automotive object detection, we show improved detection performance over existing designs even when simplifying designs to two- or three-element lenses, despite significantly degrading the image quality. Code and optical designs will be made publicly available.
نوع الوثيقة: report
اللغة: unknown
العلاقة: https://figshare.com/articles/preprint/The_Differentiable_Lens_Compound_Lens_Search_over_Glass_Surfaces_and_Materials_for_Object_Detection/21851772Test
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2212.04441
الإتاحة: https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2212.04441Test
حقوق: CC0
رقم الانضمام: edsbas.3F7CA2A7
قاعدة البيانات: BASE