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Self-supervised monocular depth and ego-motion estimation is a promising approach to replace or supplement expensive depth sensors such as LiDAR for robotics applications like autonomous driving. However, most research in this area focuses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Vitor Guizilini , Igor Vasiljevic , Rares Ambrus , Greg Shakhnarovich , Adrien Gaidon

Self-supervised monocular depth estimation serves as a key task in the development of endoscopic navigation systems. However, performance degradation persists due to uneven illumination inherent in endoscopic images, particularly in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Mingyang Ou , Haojin Li , Yifeng Zhang , Ke Niu , Zhongxi Qiu , Heng Li , Jiang Liu

Monocular depth estimation (MDE) is a critical task to guide autonomous medical robots. However, obtaining absolute (metric) depth from an endoscopy camera in surgical scenes is difficult, which limits supervised learning of depth on real…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Hao Li , Daiwei Lu , Jesse d'Almeida , Dilara Isik , Ehsan Khodapanah Aghdam , Nick DiSanto , Ayberk Acar , Susheela Sharma , Jie Ying Wu , Robert J. Webster , Ipek Oguz

In monocular depth estimation, unsupervised domain adaptation has recently been explored to relax the dependence on large annotated image-based depth datasets. However, this comes at the cost of training multiple models or requiring complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Amir El-Ghoussani , Julia Hornauer , Gustavo Carneiro , Vasileios Belagiannis

Monocular depth estimation in endoscopy videos can enable assistive and robotic surgery to obtain better coverage of the organ and detection of various health issues. Despite promising progress on mainstream, natural image depth estimation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Akshay Paruchuri , Samuel Ehrenstein , Shuxian Wang , Inbar Fried , Stephen M. Pizer , Marc Niethammer , Roni Sengupta

Monocular depth estimation is the task of obtaining a measure of distance for each pixel using a single image. It is an important problem in computer vision and is usually solved using neural networks. Though recent works in this area have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Nikita Durasov , Mikhail Romanov , Valeriya Bubnova , Pavel Bogomolov , Anton Konushin

We design a multiscopic vision system that utilizes a low-cost monocular RGB camera to acquire accurate depth estimation. Unlike multi-view stereo with images captured at unconstrained camera poses, the proposed system controls the motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-21 Weihao Yuan , Rui Fan , Michael Yu Wang , Qifeng Chen

Self-supervised monocular depth estimation is an attractive solution that does not require hard-to-source depth labels for training. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have recently achieved great success in this task. However, their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Chaoqiang Zhao , Youmin Zhang , Matteo Poggi , Fabio Tosi , Xianda Guo , Zheng Zhu , Guan Huang , Yang Tang , Stefano Mattoccia

Although both self-supervised single-frame and multi-frame depth estimation methods only require unlabeled monocular videos for training, the information they leverage varies because single-frame methods mainly rely on appearance-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Jie Xiang , Yun Wang , Lifeng An , Haiyang Liu , Jian Liu

Self-supervised monocular depth estimation is a significant task for low-cost and efficient 3D scene perception and measurement in endoscopy. However, the variety of illumination conditions and scene features is still the primary challenges…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Liangjing Shao , Chenkang Du , Benshuang Chen , Xueli Liu , Xinrong Chen

Deep neural networks have lead to a breakthrough in depth estimation from single images. Recent work often focuses on the accuracy of the depth map, where an evaluation on a publicly available test set such as the KITTI vision benchmark is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-20 Tom van Dijk , Guido C. H. E. de Croon

Learning to predict scene depth from RGB inputs is a challenging task both for indoor and outdoor robot navigation. In this work we address unsupervised learning of scene depth and robot ego-motion where supervision is provided by monocular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-16 Vincent Casser , Soeren Pirk , Reza Mahjourian , Anelia Angelova

Accurate real depth annotations are difficult to acquire, needing the use of special devices such as a LiDAR sensor. Self-supervised methods try to overcome this problem by processing video or stereo sequences, which may not always be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Adrian Lopez-Rodriguez , Krystian Mikolajczyk

Bokeh rendering and depth estimation share a fundamental optical connection, yet existing methods fail to fully exploit this reciprocity. Conventional bokeh pipelines rely heavily on noisy depth maps that inevitably introduce visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Hangwei Zhang , Armando Fortes , Tianyi Wei , Xingang Pan

Estimating depth from RGB images is a long-standing ill-posed problem, which has been explored for decades by the computer vision, graphics, and machine learning communities. Among the existing techniques, stereo matching remains one of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Hamid Laga , Laurent Valentin Jospin , Farid Boussaid , Mohammed Bennamoun

Transparent object perception is indispensable for numerous robotic tasks. However, accurately segmenting and estimating the depth of transparent objects remain challenging due to complex optical properties. Existing methods primarily delve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Jiangyuan Liu , Hongxuan Ma , Yuxin Guo , Yuhao Zhao , Chi Zhang , Wei Sui , Wei Zou

UAVs have become an essential photogrammetric measurement as they are affordable, easily accessible and versatile. Aerial images captured from UAVs have applications in small and large scale texture mapping, 3D modelling, object detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Logambal Madhuanand , Francesco Nex , Michael Ying Yang

Metric depth estimation from visual sensors is crucial for robots to perceive, navigate, and interact with their environment. Traditional range imaging setups, such as stereo or structured light cameras, face hassles including calibration,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Blanca Lasheras-Hernandez , Klaus H. Strobl , Sergio Izquierdo , Tim Bodenmüller , Rudolph Triebel , Javier Civera

Depth completion, the technique of estimating a dense depth image from sparse depth measurements, has a variety of applications in robotics and autonomous driving. However, depth completion faces 3 main challenges: the irregularly spaced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-04 Fangchang Ma , Guilherme Venturelli Cavalheiro , Sertac Karaman

We propose MAMo, a novel memory and attention frame-work for monocular video depth estimation. MAMo can augment and improve any single-image depth estimation networks into video depth estimation models, enabling them to take advantage of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Rajeev Yasarla , Hong Cai , Jisoo Jeong , Yunxiao Shi , Risheek Garrepalli , Fatih Porikli