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Depth information is the foundation of perception, essential for autonomous driving, robotics, and other source-constrained applications. Promptly obtaining accurate and efficient depth information allows for a rapid response in dynamic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Xin Zhang , Rabab Abdelfattah , Yuqi Song , Samuel A. Dauchert , Xiaofeng wang

Depth estimation is an important computer vision problem with many practical applications to mobile devices. While many solutions have been proposed for this task, they are usually very computationally expensive and thus are not applicable…

Recent advances in monocular 3D detection leverage a depth estimation network explicitly as an intermediate stage of the 3D detection network. Depth map approaches yield more accurate depth to objects than other methods thanks to the depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Youngseok Kim , Sanmin Kim , Sangmin Sim , Jun Won Choi , Dongsuk Kum

Depth estimation is a critical topic for robotics and vision-related tasks. In monocular depth estimation, in comparison with supervised learning that requires expensive ground truth labeling, self-supervised methods possess great potential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Jinchang Zhang , Praveen Kumar Reddy , Xue-Iuan Wong , Yiannis Aloimonos , Guoyu Lu

In this paper we propose a method for estimating depth from a single image using a coarse to fine approach. We argue that modeling the fine depth details is easier after a coarse depth map has been computed. We express a global (coarse)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-02-10 Mohammad Haris Baig , Lorenzo Torresani

Accurate monocular depth estimation is crucial for 3D scene understanding, but existing methods often blur depth at object boundaries, introducing spurious intermediate 3D points. While achieving sharp edges usually requires very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Aurélien Cecille , Stefan Duffner , Franck Davoine , Rémi Agier , Thibault Neveu

Obtaining highly accurate depth from stereo images in real time has many applications across computer vision and robotics, but in some contexts, upper bounds on power consumption constrain the feasible hardware to embedded platforms such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-19 Oscar Rahnama , Tommaso Cavallari , Stuart Golodetz , Alessio Tonioni , Thomas Joy , Luigi Di Stefano , Simon Walker , Philip H. S. Torr

The advent of autonomous driving and advanced driver assistance systems necessitates continuous developments in computer vision for 3D scene understanding. Self-supervised monocular depth estimation, a method for pixel-wise distance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Arnav Varma , Hemang Chawla , Bahram Zonooz , Elahe Arani

In this paper, we address the problem of monocular depth estimation when only a limited number of training image-depth pairs are available. To achieve a high regression accuracy, the state-of-the-art estimation methods rely on CNNs trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-07 Rongrong Ji , Ke Li , Yan Wang , Xiaoshuai Sun , Feng Guo , Xiaowei Guo , Yongjian Wu , Feiyue Huang , Jiebo Luo

A significant weakness of most current deep Convolutional Neural Networks is the need to train them using vast amounts of manu- ally labelled data. In this work we propose a unsupervised framework to learn a deep convolutional neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-01 Ravi Garg , Vijay Kumar BG , Gustavo Carneiro , Ian Reid

Monocular cameras are extensively employed in indoor robotics, but their performance is limited in visual odometry, depth estimation, and related applications due to the absence of scale information.Depth estimation refers to the process of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Yehao Liu , Ruoyan Xia , Xiaosu Xu , Zijian Wang , Yiqing Ya , Mingze Fan

Recently, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown great success on the task of monocular depth estimation. A fundamental yet unanswered question is: how CNNs can infer depth from a single image. Toward answering this question, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Junjie Hu , Yan Zhang , Takayuki Okatani

Monocular depth estimation (MDE) plays a pivotal role in various computer vision applications, such as robotics, augmented reality, and autonomous driving. Despite recent advancements, existing methods often fail to meet key requirements…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Andrii Litvynchuk , Ivan Livinsky , Anand Ravi , Nima Kalantari , Andrii Tsarov

The great potential of unsupervised monocular depth estimation has been demonstrated by many works due to low annotation cost and impressive accuracy comparable to supervised methods. To further improve the performance, recent works mainly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Junyu Zhu , Lina Liu , Yong Liu , Wanlong Li , Feng Wen , Hongbo Zhang

Despite recent improvement of supervised monocular depth estimation, the lack of high quality pixel-wise ground truth annotations has become a major hurdle for further progress. In this work, we propose a new unsupervised depth estimation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Huan Liu , Junsong Yuan , Chen Wang , Jun Chen

Deep neural networks are applied to a wide range of problems in recent years. In this work, Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) is applied to the problem of determining the depth from a single camera image (monocular depth). Eight different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-22 S. Bazrafkan , H. Javidnia , J. Lemley , P. Corcoran

Predicting depth is an essential component in understanding the 3D geometry of a scene. While for stereo images local correspondence suffices for estimation, finding depth relations from a single image is less straightforward, requiring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-06-10 David Eigen , Christian Puhrsch , Rob Fergus

We present a deep model that can accurately produce dense depth maps given an RGB image with known depth at a very sparse set of pixels. The model works simultaneously for both indoor/outdoor scenes and produces state-of-the-art dense depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Zhao Chen , Vijay Badrinarayanan , Gilad Drozdov , Andrew Rabinovich

Accurate depth estimation from images is a fundamental task in many applications including scene understanding and reconstruction. Existing solutions for depth estimation often produce blurry approximations of low resolution. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Ibraheem Alhashim , Peter Wonka

Self-supervised monocular depth estimation has emerged as a promising approach since it does not rely on labeled training data. Most methods combine convolution and Transformer to model long-distance dependencies to estimate depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Xuezhi Xiang , Yao Wang , Lei Zhang , Denis Ombati , Himaloy Himu , Xiantong Zhen