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Depth completion aims to recover dense depth maps from sparse ones, where color images are often used to facilitate this task. Recent depth methods primarily focus on image guided learning frameworks. However, blurry guidance in the image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Zhiqiang Yan , Xiang Li , Le Hui , Zhenyu Zhang , Jun Li , Jian Yang

Depth completion aims to generate a dense depth map from the sparse depth map and aligned RGB image. However, current depth completion methods use extremely expensive 64-line LiDAR(about $100,000) to obtain sparse depth maps, which will…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Hengjie Lu , Shugong Xu , Shan Cao

LiDAR depth-only completion is a challenging task to estimate dense depth maps only from sparse measurement points obtained by LiDAR. Even though the depth-only methods have been widely developed, there is still a significant performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Yufei Wang , Yuchao Dai , Qi Liu , Peng Yang , Jiadai Sun , Bo Li

Recovering a dense depth image from sparse LiDAR scans is a challenging task. Despite the popularity of color-guided methods for sparse-to-dense depth completion, they treated pixels equally during optimization, ignoring the uneven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Yufan Zhu , Weisheng Dong , Leida Li , Jinjian Wu , Xin Li , Guangming Shi

Robust three-dimensional scene understanding is now an ever-growing area of research highly relevant in many real-world applications such as autonomous driving and robotic navigation. In this paper, we propose a multi-task learning-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-16 Amir Atapour-Abarghouei , Toby P. Breckon

Depth completion is an important vision task, and many efforts have been made to enhance the quality of depth maps from sparse depth measurements. Despite significant advances, training these models to recover dense depth from sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Rizhao Fan , Zhigen Li , Heping Li , Ning An

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

Depth completion is a key task in autonomous driving, aiming to complete sparse LiDAR depth measurements into high-quality dense depth maps through image guidance. However, existing methods usually treat depth maps as an additional channel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Kuang Zhu , Xingli Gan , Min Sun

With the wide application of sparse ToF sensors in mobile devices, RGB image-guided sparse depth completion has attracted extensive attention recently, but still faces some problems. First, the fusion of multimodal information requires more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Dewang Hou , Yuanyuan Du , Kai Zhao , Yang Zhao

Depth estimation is an important capability for autonomous vehicles to understand and reconstruct 3D environments as well as avoid obstacles during the execution. Accurate depth sensors such as LiDARs are often heavy, expensive and can only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Yilun Zhang , Ty Nguyen , Ian D. Miller , Shreyas S. Shivakumar , Steven Chen , Camillo J. Taylor , Vijay Kumar

This paper addresses the problem of single image depth estimation (SIDE), focusing on improving the quality of deep neural network predictions. In a supervised learning scenario, the quality of predictions is intrinsically related to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-10 Nícolas Rosa , Vitor Guizilini , Valdir Grassi

We consider the problem of dense depth prediction from a sparse set of depth measurements and a single RGB image. Since depth estimation from monocular images alone is inherently ambiguous and unreliable, to attain a higher level of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Fangchang Ma , Sertac Karaman

Transparent and reflective objects in everyday environments pose significant challenges for depth sensors due to their unique visual properties, such as specular reflections and light transmission. These characteristics often lead to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Guanghu Xie , Zhiduo Jiang , Yonglong Zhang , Yang Liu , Zongwu Xie , Baoshi Cao , Hong Liu

In this paper, we propose a deep learning architecture that produces accurate dense depth for the outdoor scene from a single color image and a sparse depth. Inspired by the indoor depth completion, our network estimates surface normals as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Jiaxiong Qiu , Zhaopeng Cui , Yinda Zhang , Xingdi Zhang , Shuaicheng Liu , Bing Zeng , Marc Pollefeys

Existing depth completion methods are often targeted at a specific sparse depth type and generalize poorly across task domains. We present a method to complete sparse/semi-dense, noisy, and potentially low-resolution depth maps obtained by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Guangkai Xu , Wei Yin , Jianming Zhang , Oliver Wang , Simon Niklaus , Simon Chen , Jia-Wang Bian

Depth completion aims to predict a dense depth map from a sparse depth input. The acquisition of dense ground truth annotations for depth completion settings can be difficult and, at the same time, a significant domain gap between real…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-06 Adrian Lopez-Rodriguez , Benjamin Busam , Krystian Mikolajczyk

Existing deep learning-based depth completion methods generally employ massive stacked layers to predict the dense depth map from sparse input data. Although such approaches greatly advance this task, their accompanied huge computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Yufei Wang , Bo Li , Ge Zhang , Qi Liu , Tao Gao , Yuchao Dai

Depth completion recovers a dense depth map from sensor measurements. Current methods are mostly tailored for very sparse depth measurements from LiDARs in outdoor settings, while for indoor scenes Time-of-Flight (ToF) or structured light…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Dmitry Senushkin , Mikhail Romanov , Ilia Belikov , Anton Konushin , Nikolay Patakin

This work proposes a method for depth completion of sparse LiDAR data using a convolutional neural network which can be used to generate semi-dense depth maps and "almost" full 3D point-clouds with significantly lower root mean squared…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-23 Hamid Hekmatian , Jingfu Jin , Samir Al-Stouhi

Given the lidar measurements from an autonomous vehicle, we can project the points and generate a sparse depth image. Depth completion aims at increasing the resolution of such a depth image by infilling and interpolating the sparse depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Pietari Kaskela , Philipp Fischer , Timo Roman