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The self-supervised learning of depth and pose from monocular sequences provides an attractive solution by using the photometric consistency of nearby frames as it depends much less on the ground-truth data. In this paper, we address the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-20 Tianwei Shen , Lei Zhou , Zixin Luo , Yao Yao , Shiwei Li , Jiahui Zhang , Tian Fang , Long Quan

Monocular depth estimation involves predicting depth from a single RGB image and plays a crucial role in applications such as autonomous driving, robotic navigation, 3D reconstruction, etc. Recent advancements in learning-based methods have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Jingming Xia , Guanqun Cao , Guang Ma , Yiben Luo , Qinzhao Li , John Oyekan

Accurate monocular depth estimation is a fundamental component of vision-based perception systems in intelligent transportation applications. Despite recent progress, unsupervised monocular approaches still suffer from significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Yufan Zhu , Chongzhi Ran , Mingtao Feng , Le Dong , Weisheng Dong , Antonio M. López

Depth estimation is an active area of research in the field of computer vision, and has garnered significant interest due to its rising demand in a large number of applications ranging from robotics and unmanned aerial vehicles to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Linda Wang , Mahmoud Famouri , Alexander Wong

Multi-view stereo depth estimation based on cost volume usually works better than self-supervised monocular depth estimation except for moving objects and low-textured surfaces. So in this paper, we propose a multi-frame depth estimation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Zhuofei Huang , Jianlin Liu , Shang Xu , Ying Chen , Yong Liu

Supervised learning depth estimation methods can achieve good performance when trained on high-quality ground-truth, like LiDAR data. However, LiDAR can only generate sparse 3D maps which causes losing information. Obtaining high-quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-14 Hao Xing , Yifan Cao , Maximilian Biber , Mingchuan Zhou , Darius Burschka

Recent advances in end-to-end unsupervised learning has significantly improved the performance of monocular depth prediction and alleviated the requirement of ground truth depth. Although a plethora of work has been done in enforcing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Vinay Kaushik , Brejesh Lall

We present a novel method to train machine learning algorithms to estimate scene depths from a single image, by using the information provided by a camera's aperture as supervision. Prior works use a depth sensor's outputs or images of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-30 Pratul P. Srinivasan , Rahul Garg , Neal Wadhwa , Ren Ng , Jonathan T. Barron

Self-supervised depth learning from monocular images normally relies on the 2D pixel-wise photometric relation between temporally adjacent image frames. However, they neither fully exploit the 3D point-wise geometric correspondences, nor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Kaichen Zhou , Lanqing Hong , Changhao Chen , Hang Xu , Chaoqiang Ye , Qingyong Hu , Zhenguo Li

We formulate monocular depth estimation using denoising diffusion models, inspired by their recent successes in high fidelity image generation. To that end, we introduce innovations to address problems arising due to noisy, incomplete depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Saurabh Saxena , Abhishek Kar , Mohammad Norouzi , David J. Fleet

Multi-frame depth estimation improves over single-frame approaches by also leveraging geometric relationships between images via feature matching, in addition to learning appearance-based features. In this paper we revisit feature matching…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Vitor Guizilini , Rares Ambrus , Dian Chen , Sergey Zakharov , Adrien Gaidon

Leveraging synthetically rendered data offers great potential to improve monocular depth estimation and other geometric estimation tasks, but closing the synthetic-real domain gap is a non-trivial and important task. While much recent work…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Yunhan Zhao , Shu Kong , Daeyun Shin , Charless Fowlkes

Monocular depth estimation has greatly improved in the recent years but models predicting metric depth still struggle to generalize across diverse camera poses and datasets. While recent supervised methods mitigate this issue by leveraging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Aurélien Cecille , Stefan Duffner , Franck Davoine , Thibault Neveu , Rémi Agier

Unsupervised stereo matching has garnered significant attention for its independence from costly disparity annotations. Typical unsupervised methods rely on the multi-view consistency assumption for training networks, which suffer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Chuang-Wei Liu , Mingjian Sun , Cairong Zhao , Hanli Wang , Alexander Dvorkovich , Rui Fan

Depth completion involves predicting dense depth maps from sparse LiDAR inputs. However, sparse depth annotations from sensors limit the availability of dense supervision, which is necessary for learning detailed geometric features. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Yingping Liang , Yutao Hu , Wenqi Shao , Ying Fu

Depth estimation is critical for any robotic system. In the past years estimation of depth from monocular images have shown great improvement, however, in the underwater environment results are still lagging behind due to appearance changes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Shlomi Amitai , Itzik Klein , Tali Treibitz

A key contributor to recent progress in 3D detection from single images is monocular depth estimation. Existing methods focus on how to leverage depth explicitly, by generating pseudo-pointclouds or providing attention cues for image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Dennis Park , Jie Li , Dian Chen , Vitor Guizilini , Adrien Gaidon

Monocular depth estimation is one of the fundamental tasks in environmental perception and has achieved tremendous progress in virtue of deep learning. However, the performance of trained models tends to degrade or deteriorate when employed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Qiyu Sun , Gary G. Yen , Yang Tang , Chaoqiang Zhao

Monocular depth estimation is scale-ambiguous, and thus requires scale supervision to produce metric predictions. Even so, the resulting models will be geometry-specific, with learned scales that cannot be directly transferred across…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Vitor Guizilini , Igor Vasiljevic , Dian Chen , Rares Ambrus , Adrien Gaidon

Neural networks have shown great success in extracting geometric information from color images. Especially, monocular depth estimation networks are increasingly reliable in real-world scenes. In this work we investigate the applicability of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Dominik Engel , Sebastian Hartwig , Timo Ropinski