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In many real-world applications, the relative depth of objects in an image is crucial for scene understanding. Recent approaches mainly tackle the problem of depth prediction in monocular images by treating the problem as a regression task.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Julian Lienen , Eyke Hüllermeier , Ralph Ewerth , Nils Nommensen

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

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

Recent advances in monocular depth estimation methods (MDE) and their improved accuracy open new possibilities for their applications. In this paper, we investigate how monocular depth estimates can be used for relative pose estimation. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Yaqing Ding , Viktor Kocur , Václav Vávra , Zuzana Berger Haladová , Jian Yang , Torsten Sattler , Zuzana Kukelova

Self-supervised deep learning methods have leveraged stereo images for training monocular depth estimation. Although these methods show strong results on outdoor datasets such as KITTI, they do not match performance of supervised methods on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Benjamin Keltjens , Tom van Dijk , Guido de Croon

Although deep neural networks have been widely applied to computer vision problems, extending them into multiview depth estimation is non-trivial. In this paper, we present MVDepthNet, a convolutional network to solve the depth estimation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Kaixuan Wang , Shaojie Shen

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

Depth estimation, as a necessary clue to convert 2D images into the 3D space, has been applied in many machine vision areas. However, to achieve an entire surrounding 360-degree geometric sensing, traditional stereo matching algorithms for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Keyang Zhou , Kailun Yang , Kaiwei Wang

Self-supervised monocular depth estimation (MDE) has gained popularity for obtaining depth predictions directly from videos. However, these methods often produce scale invariant results, unless additional training signals are provided.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Gasser Elazab , Torben Gräber , Michael Unterreiner , Olaf Hellwich

Self-supervised monocular depth estimation (SSMDE) has gained attention in the field of deep learning as it estimates depth without requiring ground truth depth maps. This approach typically uses a photometric consistency loss between a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Wonhyeok Choi , Kyumin Hwang , Minwoo Choi , Kiljoon Han , Wonjoon Choi , Mingyu Shin , Sunghoon Im

At present, deep learning has been applied more and more in monocular image depth estimation and has shown promising results. The current more ideal method for monocular depth estimation is the supervised learning based on ground truth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Zhimin Zhang , Jianzhong Qiao , Shukuan Lin

We present an unsupervised learning framework for the task of monocular depth and camera motion estimation from unstructured video sequences. We achieve this by simultaneously training depth and camera pose estimation networks using the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-02 Tinghui Zhou , Matthew Brown , Noah Snavely , David G. Lowe

We study the problem of estimating the relative depth order of point pairs in a monocular image. Recent advances mainly focus on using deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) to learn and infer the ordinal information from multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-28 Ruoxi Deng , Tianqi Zhao , Chunhua Shen , Shengjun Liu

In this paper we formulate structure from motion as a learning problem. We train a convolutional network end-to-end to compute depth and camera motion from successive, unconstrained image pairs. The architecture is composed of multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-18 Benjamin Ummenhofer , Huizhong Zhou , Jonas Uhrig , Nikolaus Mayer , Eddy Ilg , Alexey Dosovitskiy , Thomas Brox

Depth estimation is a challenging task of 3D reconstruction to enhance the accuracy sensing of environment awareness. This work brings a new solution with a set of improvements, which increase the quantitative and qualitative understanding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Armin Masoumian , Hatem A. Rashwan , Saddam Abdulwahab , Julian Cristiano , Domenec Puig

Beyond depth estimation from a single image, the monocular cue is useful in a broader range of depth inference applications and settings---such as when one can leverage other available depth cues for improved accuracy. Currently, different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-11 Zhihao Xia , Patrick Sullivan , Ayan Chakrabarti

Monocular depth estimation is a recurring subject in the field of computer vision. Its ability to describe scenes via a depth map while reducing the constraints related to the formulation of perspective geometry tends to favor its use.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Marc Blanchon , Désiré Sidibé , Olivier Morel , Ralph Seulin , Daniel Braun , Fabrice Meriaudeau

A reliable sense-and-avoid system is critical to enabling safe autonomous operation of unmanned aircraft. Existing sense-and-avoid methods often require specialized sensors that are too large or power intensive for use on small unmanned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-04 John Mern , Kyle Julian , Rachael E. Tompa , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

Depth estimation is usually ill-posed and ambiguous for monocular camera-based 3D multi-person pose estimation. Since LiDAR can capture accurate depth information in long-range scenes, it can benefit both the global localization of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Peishan Cong , Yiteng Xu , Yiming Ren , Juze Zhang , Lan Xu , Jingya Wang , Jingyi Yu , Yuexin Ma

Estimating a scene's depth to achieve collision avoidance against moving pedestrians is a crucial and fundamental problem in the robotic field. This paper proposes a novel, low complexity network architecture for fast and accurate human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Shan An , Fangru Zhou , Mei Yang , Haogang Zhu , Changhong Fu , Konstantinos A. Tsintotas