照明変動に頑健なTIR-LiDAR人物追跡のためのデュアルストリームTransformerアーキテクチャ
A Dual-Stream Transformer Architecture for Illumination-Invariant TIR-LiDAR Person Tracking
RGB-D追跡の照明脆弱性を解決するため、LiDARと熱赤外カメラを用いたTIR-D追跡アーキテクチャを提案し、逐次知識転移と微分学習率戦略で少データ問題を克服した。
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著者: Yuki Minase, Kanji Tanaka
分類: cs.RO, cs.CV
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Robust person tracking is a critical capability for autonomous mobile robots operating in diverse and unpredictable environments. While RGB-D tracking has shown high precision, its performance severely degrades under challenging illumination conditions, such as total darkness or intense backlighting. To achieve all-weather robustness, this paper proposes a novel Thermal-Infrared and Depth (TIR-D) tracking architecture that leverages the standard sensor suite of SLAM-capable robots, namely LiDAR and TIR cameras. A major challenge in TIR-D tracking is the scarcity of annotated multi-modal datasets. To address this, we introduce a sequential knowledge transfer strategy that evolves structural priors from a large-scale thermal-trained model into the TIR-D domain. By employing a differential learning rate strategy -- referred to as ``Fine-grained Differential Learning Rate Strategy'' -- we effectively preserve pre-trained feature extraction capabilities while enabling rapid adaptation to geometric depth cues. Experimental results demonstrate that our proposed TIR-D tracker achieves superior performance, with an Average Overlap (AO) of 0.700 and a Success Rate (SR) of 58.7\%, significantly outperforming conventional RGB-transfer and single-modality baselines. Our approach provides a practical and resource-efficient solution for robust human-following in all-weather robotics applications.
