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Inferring the depth of images is a fundamental inverse problem within the field of Computer Vision since depth information is obtained through 2D images, which can be generated from infinite possibilities of observed real scenes. Benefiting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Raul de Queiroz Mendes , Eduardo Godinho Ribeiro , Nicolas dos Santos Rosa , Valdir Grassi

This paper addresses the problem of dense depth predictions from sparse distance sensor data and a single camera image on challenging weather conditions. This work explores the significance of different sensor modalities such as camera,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Sadique Adnan Siddiqui , Axel Vierling , Karsten Berns

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

Without ground truth supervision, self-supervised depth estimation can be trapped in a local minimum due to the gradient-locality issue of the photometric loss. In this paper, we present a framework to enhance depth by leveraging semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Shan Lin , Yuheng Zhi , Michael C. Yip

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

Self-supervised monocular depth prediction provides a cost-effective solution to obtain the 3D location of each pixel. However, the existing approaches usually lead to unsatisfactory accuracy, which is critical for autonomous robots. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Ziyue Feng , Longlong Jing , Peng Yin , Yingli Tian , Bing Li

An accurate depth map of the environment is critical to the safe operation of autonomous robots and vehicles. Currently, either light detection and ranging (LIDAR) or stereo matching algorithms are used to acquire such depth information.…

The performance of image based stereo estimation suffers from lighting variations, repetitive patterns and homogeneous appearance. Moreover, to achieve good performance, stereo supervision requires sufficient densely-labeled data, which are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Yu-Kai Huang , Yueh-Cheng Liu , Tsung-Han Wu , Hung-Ting Su , Winston H. Hsu

Estimating a dense and accurate depth map is the key requirement for autonomous driving and robotics. Recent advances in deep learning have allowed depth estimation in full resolution from a single image. Despite this impressive result,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Sungho Yoon , Ayoung Kim

Semantic segmentation of 3D LiDAR point clouds is important in urban remote sensing for understanding real-world street environments. This task, by projecting LiDAR point clouds and 3D semantic labels as sparse maps, can be reformulated as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Xiaoyu Dong , Tiankui Xian , Wanshui Gan , Naoto Yokoya

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

This paper studies unsupervised monocular depth prediction problem. Most of existing unsupervised depth prediction algorithms are developed for outdoor scenarios, while the depth prediction work in the indoor environment is still very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Yinglong Feng , Shuncheng Wu , Okan Köpüklü , Xueyang Kang , Federico Tombari

Accurate mapping of large-scale environments is an essential building block of most outdoor autonomous systems. Challenges of traditional mapping methods include the balance between memory consumption and mapping accuracy. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Xingguang Zhong , Yue Pan , Jens Behley , Cyrill Stachniss

Accurate dense depth estimation is crucial for autonomous vehicles to analyze their environment. This paper presents a non-deep learning-based approach to densify a sparse LiDAR-based depth map using a guidance RGB image. To achieve this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Bryan Krauss , Gregory Schroeder , Marko Gustke , Ahmed Hussein

Dense depth cues are important and have wide applications in various computer vision tasks. In autonomous driving, LIDAR sensors are adopted to acquire depth measurements around the vehicle to perceive the surrounding environments. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-21 Zixuan Huang , Junming Fan , Shenggan Cheng , Shuai Yi , Xiaogang Wang , Hongsheng Li

Estimating scene geometry from data obtained with cost-effective sensors is key for robots and self-driving cars. In this paper, we study the problem of predicting dense depth from a single RGB image (monodepth) with optional sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Vitor Guizilini , Rares Ambrus , Wolfram Burgard , Adrien Gaidon

Monocular Depth Estimation (MDE) is a fundamental problem in computer vision with numerous applications. Recently, LIDAR-supervised methods have achieved remarkable per-pixel depth accuracy in outdoor scenes. However, significant errors are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Lior Talker , Aviad Cohen , Erez Yosef , Alexandra Dana , Michael Dinerstein

Depth perception is pivotal in many fields, such as robotics and autonomous driving, to name a few. Consequently, depth sensors such as LiDARs rapidly spread in many applications. The 3D point clouds generated by these sensors must often be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Andrea Conti , Matteo Poggi , Filippo Aleotti , Stefano Mattoccia

This paper addresses the problem of learning to complete a scene's depth from sparse depth points and images of indoor scenes. Specifically, we study the case in which the sparse depth is computed from a visual-inertial simultaneous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Kourosh Sartipi , Tien Do , Tong Ke , Khiem Vuong , Stergios I. Roumeliotis

Monocular depth estimation (MDE) has been widely adopted in the perception systems of autonomous vehicles and mobile robots. However, existing approaches often struggle to maintain temporal consistency in depth estimation across consecutive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Leezy Han , Seunggyu Kim , Dongseok Shim , Hyeonbeom Lee