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Unsupervised learning based depth estimation methods have received more and more attention as they do not need vast quantities of densely labeled data for training which are touch to acquire. In this paper, we propose a novel unsupervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Lingtao Zhou , Jiaojiao Fang , Guizhong Liu

Unsupervised depth learning takes the appearance difference between a target view and a view synthesized from its adjacent frame as supervisory signal. Since the supervisory signal only comes from images themselves, the resolution of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Junsheng Zhou , Yuwang Wang , Kaihuai Qin , Wenjun Zeng

Monocular depth estimation has become one of the most studied applications in computer vision, where the most accurate approaches are based on fully supervised learning models. However, the acquisition of accurate and large ground truth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Adrian Johnston , Gustavo Carneiro

As an agent moves through the world, the apparent motion of scene elements is (usually) inversely proportional to their depth. It is natural for a learning agent to associate image patterns with the magnitude of their displacement over…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Huaizu Jiang , Erik Learned-Miller , Gustav Larsson , Michael Maire , Greg Shakhnarovich

Self-supervised depth estimation for indoor environments is more challenging than its outdoor counterpart in at least the following two aspects: (i) the depth range of indoor sequences varies a lot across different frames, making it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-29 Pan Ji , Runze Li , Bir Bhanu , Yi Xu

Depth from a monocular video can enable billions of devices and robots with a single camera to see the world in 3D. In this paper, we present an approach with a differentiable flow-to-depth layer for video depth estimation. The model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-04 Jiaxin Xie , Chenyang Lei , Zhuwen Li , Li Erran Li , Qifeng Chen

Monocular Depth Estimation (MDE) enables spatial understanding, 3D reconstruction, and autonomous navigation, yet deep learning approaches often predict only relative depth without a consistent metric scale. This limitation reduces…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Jiuling Zhang

Understanding the geometry and pose of objects in 2D images is a fundamental necessity for a wide range of real world applications. Driven by deep neural networks, recent methods have brought significant improvements to object pose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Jogendra Nath Kundu , Rahul M. V. , Aditya Ganeshan , R. Venkatesh Babu

Estimating the depth of comics images is challenging as such images a) are monocular; b) lack ground-truth depth annotations; c) differ across different artistic styles; d) are sparse and noisy. We thus, use an off-the-shelf unsupervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Deblina Bhattacharjee , Martin Everaert , Mathieu Salzmann , Sabine Süsstrunk

We propose a method for metric-scale monocular depth estimation. Inferring depth from a single image is an ill-posed problem due to the loss of scale from perspective projection during the image formation process. Any scale chosen is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Ziyao Zeng , Yangchao Wu , Hyoungseob Park , Daniel Wang , Fengyu Yang , Stefano Soatto , Dong Lao , Byung-Woo Hong , Alex Wong

We present a novel unsupervised learning framework for single view depth estimation using monocular videos. It is well known in 3D vision that enlarging the baseline can increase the depth estimation accuracy, and jointly optimizing a set…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Lipu Zhou , Jiamin Ye , Montiel Abello , Shengze Wang , Michael Kaess

Recent developments in monocular depth estimation methods enable high-quality depth estimation of single-view images but fail to estimate consistent video depth across different frames. Recent works address this problem by applying a video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Jiahao Lu , Tianyu Huang , Peng Li , Zhiyang Dou , Cheng Lin , Zhiming Cui , Zhen Dong , Sai-Kit Yeung , Wenping Wang , Yuan Liu

Accurate distance estimation is a fundamental challenge in robotic perception, particularly in omnidirectional imaging, where traditional geometric methods struggle with lens distortions and environmental variability. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Yitong Quan , Benjamin Kiefer , Martin Messmer , Andreas Zell

Deducing a 3D human pose from a single 2D image is inherently challenging because multiple 3D poses can correspond to the same 2D representation. 3D data can resolve this pose ambiguity, but it is expensive to record and requires an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Christian Keilstrup Ingwersen , Rasmus Tirsgaard , Rasmus Nylander , Janus Nørtoft Jensen , Anders Bjorholm Dahl , Morten Rieger Hannemose

Monocular visual odometry (VO) is an important task in robotics and computer vision. Thus far, how to build accurate and robust monocular VO systems that can work well in diverse scenarios remains largely unsolved. In this paper, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Libo Sun , Wei Yin , Enze Xie , Zhengrong Li , Changming Sun , Chunhua Shen

Self-supervised depth learning from monocular images normally relies on the 2D pixel-wise photometric relation between temporally adjacent image frames. However, they neither fully exploit the 3D point-wise geometric correspondences, nor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Kaichen Zhou , Lanqing Hong , Changhao Chen , Hang Xu , Chaoqiang Ye , Qingyong Hu , Zhenguo Li

We present a novel approach for metric dense depth estimation based on the fusion of a single-view image and a sparse, noisy Radar point cloud. The direct fusion of heterogeneous Radar and image data, or their encodings, tends to yield…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Han Li , Yukai Ma , Yaqing Gu , Kewei Hu , Yong Liu , Xingxing Zuo

3D object detection based on monocular camera data is a key enabler for autonomous driving. The task however, is ill-posed due to lack of depth information in 2D images. Recent deep learning methods show promising results to recover depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-18 Felix Nobis , Fabian Brunhuber , Simon Janssen , Johannes Betz , Markus Lienkamp

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

Event cameras are novel sensors that output brightness changes in the form of a stream of asynchronous events instead of intensity frames. Compared to conventional image sensors, they offer significant advantages: high temporal resolution,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Javier Hidalgo-Carrió , Daniel Gehrig , Davide Scaramuzza