Deep convolutional neural networks trained end-to-end are the
state-of-the-art methods to regress dense disparity maps from stereo pairs.
These models, however, suffer from a notable decrease in accuracy when exposed
to scenarios significantly different from the training set, e.g., real vs
synthetic images, etc.). We argue that it is extremely unlikely to gather
enough samples to achieve effective training/tuning in any target domain, thus
making this setup impractical for many applications. Instead, we propose to
perform unsupervised and continuous online adaptation of a deep stereo network,
which allows for preserving its accuracy in any environment. However, this
strategy is extremely computationally demanding and thus prevents real-time
inference. We address this issue introducing a new lightweight, yet effective,
deep stereo architecture, Modularly ADaptive Network (MADNet) and developing a
Modular ADaptation (MAD) algorithm, which independently trains sub-portions of
the network. By deploying MADNet together with MAD we introduce the first
real-time self-adaptive deep stereo system enabling competitive performance on
heterogeneous datasets.Comment: Accepted at CVPR2019 as oral presentation. Code Available
https://github.com/CVLAB-Unibo/Real-time-self-adaptive-deep-stere