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In many fields, self-supervised learning solutions are rapidly evolving and filling the gap with supervised approaches. This fact occurs for depth estimation based on either monocular or stereo, with the latter often providing a valid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Filippo Aleotti , Fabio Tosi , Li Zhang , Matteo Poggi , Stefano Mattoccia

Self-supervised monocular depth estimation networks are trained to predict scene depth using nearby frames as a supervision signal during training. However, for many applications, sequence information in the form of video frames is also…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Jamie Watson , Oisin Mac Aodha , Victor Prisacariu , Gabriel Brostow , Michael Firman

Self-supervised learning for depth estimation possesses several advantages over supervised learning. The benefits of no need for ground-truth depth, online fine-tuning, and better generalization with unlimited data attract researchers to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Weihao Yuan , Yazhan Zhang , Bingkun Wu , Siyu Zhu , Ping Tan , Michael Yu Wang , Qifeng Chen

Monocular depth estimation in the wild inherently predicts depth up to an unknown scale. To resolve scale ambiguity issue, we present a learning algorithm that leverages monocular simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Jaehoon Choi , Dongki Jung , Yonghan Lee , Deokhwa Kim , Dinesh Manocha , Donghwan Lee

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

In the recent years, many methods demonstrated the ability of neural networks to learn depth and pose changes in a sequence of images, using only self-supervision as the training signal. Whilst the networks achieve good performance, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Robert McCraith , Lukas Neumann , Andrea Vedaldi

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

Metric depth prediction from monocular videos suffers from bad generalization between datasets and requires supervised depth data for scale-correct training. Self-supervised training using multi-view reconstruction can benefit from large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Xiaohu Liu , Sascha Hornauer , Fabien Moutarde , Jialiang Lu

Accurate depth estimation is at the core of many applications in computer graphics, vision, and robotics. Current state-of-the-art monocular depth estimators, trained on extensive datasets, generalize well but lack 3D consistency needed for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Laura Fink , Linus Franke , Bernhard Egger , Joachim Keinert , Marc Stamminger

We present a novel algorithm for self-supervised monocular depth completion. Our approach is based on training a neural network that requires only sparse depth measurements and corresponding monocular video sequences without dense depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Jaehoon Choi , Dongki Jung , Yonghan Lee , Deokhwa Kim , Dinesh Manocha , Donghwan Lee

Monocular depth estimation using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) has shown impressive performance in outdoor driving scenes. However, self-supervised learning of indoor depth from monocular sequences is quite challenging for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Chao Fan , Zhenyu Yin , Yue Li , Feiqing Zhang

Learning-based Multi-View Stereo (MVS) methods aim to predict depth maps for a sequence of calibrated images to recover dense point clouds. However, existing MVS methods often struggle with challenging regions, such as textureless regions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Jianfei Jiang , Qiankun Liu , Haochen Yu , Hongyuan Liu , Liyong Wang , Jiansheng Chen , Huimin Ma

Monocular and binocular self-supervised depth estimations are two important and related tasks in computer vision, which aim to predict scene depths from single images and stereo image pairs respectively. In literature, the two tasks are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Zhengming Zhou , Qiulei Dong

Depth estimation provides essential information to perform autonomous driving and driver assistance. Especially, Monocular Depth Estimation is interesting from a practical point of view, since using a single camera is cheaper than many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Akhil Gurram , Onay Urfalioglu , Ibrahim Halfaoui , Fahd Bouzaraa , Antonio M. Lopez

Perceiving 3D information is of paramount importance in many applications of computer vision. Recent advances in monocular depth estimation have shown that gaining such knowledge from a single camera input is possible by training deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Sai Shyam Chanduri , Zeeshan Khan Suri , Igor Vozniak , Christian Müller

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

We present a self-supervised approach to training convolutional neural networks for dense depth estimation from monocular endoscopy data without a priori modeling of anatomy or shading. Our method only requires monocular endoscopic videos…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Xingtong Liu , Ayushi Sinha , Masaru Ishii , Gregory D. Hager , Austin Reiter , Russell H. Taylor , Mathias Unberath

Self-supervised monocular depth estimation has been widely investigated to estimate depth images and relative poses from RGB images. This framework is attractive for researchers because the depth and pose networks can be trained from just…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Noriaki Hirose , Kosuke Tahara

Monocular and stereo depth estimation offer complementary strengths: monocular methods capture rich contextual priors but lack geometric precision, while stereo approaches leverage epipolar geometry yet struggle with ambiguities such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Tongfan Guan , Jiaxin Guo , Chen Wang , Yun-Hui Liu

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