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Depth estimation is an important computer vision problem with many practical applications to mobile devices. While many solutions have been proposed for this task, they are usually very computationally expensive and thus are not applicable…

Accurate and reliable 3D object detection is vital to safe autonomous driving. Despite recent developments, the performance gap between stereo-based methods and LiDAR-based methods is still considerable. Accurate depth estimation is crucial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-13 Chengyao Li , Jason Ku , Steven L. Waslander

Different environments pose a great challenge to the outdoor robust visual perception for long-term autonomous driving, and the generalization of learning-based algorithms on different environments is still an open problem. Although…

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This paper addresses the problem of single image depth estimation (SIDE), focusing on improving the quality of deep neural network predictions. In a supervised learning scenario, the quality of predictions is intrinsically related to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-10 Nícolas Rosa , Vitor Guizilini , Valdir Grassi

Depth estimation is a cornerstone of a vast number of applications requiring 3D assessment of the environment, such as robotics, augmented reality, and autonomous driving to name a few. One prominent technique for depth estimation is stereo…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Amit Bracha , Noam Rotstein , David Bensaïd , Ron Slossberg , Ron Kimmel

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

Reliable depth estimation under real optical conditions remains a core challenge for camera vision in systems such as autonomous robotics and augmented reality. Despite recent progress in depth estimation and depth-of-field rendering,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Nisarg K. Trivedi , Vinayak A. Belludi , Li-Yun Wang

Vision-based depth estimation is a key feature in autonomous systems, which often relies on a single camera or several independent ones. In such a monocular setup, dense depth is obtained with either additional input from one or several…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Florent Bartoccioni , Éloi Zablocki , Patrick Pérez , Matthieu Cord , Karteek Alahari

Depth sensing is of paramount importance for unmanned aerial and autonomous vehicles. Nonetheless, contemporary monocular depth estimation methods employing complex deep neural networks within Convolutional Neural Networks are inadequately…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Cheng Feng , Congxuan Zhang , Zhen Chen , Weiming Hu , Liyue Ge

Depth estimation is a critical technology in autonomous driving, and multi-camera systems are often used to achieve a 360$^\circ$ perception. These 360$^\circ$ camera sets often have limited or low-quality overlap regions, making multi-view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Jialei Xu , Wei Yin , Dong Gong , Junjun Jiang , Xianming Liu

Autonomous driving has experienced remarkable progress, bolstered by innovations in computational hardware and sophisticated deep learning methodologies. The foundation of these advancements rests on the availability and quality of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Joshua Tokarsky , Ibrahim Abdulhafiz , Satya Ayyalasomayajula , Mostafa Mohsen , Navya G. Rao , Adam Forbes

Monocular depth estimation is a critical task for autonomous driving and many other computer vision applications. While significant progress has been made in this field, the effects of viewpoint shifts on depth estimation models remain…

This paper proposes a novel method for geo-tracking, i.e. continuous metric self-localization in outdoor environments by registering a vehicle's sensor information with aerial imagery of an unseen target region. Geo-tracking methods offer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-12 Florian Fervers , Sebastian Bullinger , Christoph Bodensteiner , Michael Arens , Rainer Stiefelhagen

Monocular depth estimation has recently progressed beyond ordinal depth to provide metric depth predictions. However, its reliability in underwater environments remains limited due to light attenuation and scattering, color distortion,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Zijie Cai , Christopher Metzler

Recent advancements in deep neural networks have improved depth estimation in clear, daytime driving scenarios. However, existing methods struggle with rainy conditions due to rain streaks and fog, which distort depth estimation. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Zhengxu Shi

Multi-view depth estimation has achieved impressive performance over various benchmarks. However, almost all current multi-view systems rely on given ideal camera poses, which are unavailable in many real-world scenarios, such as autonomous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-13 JunDa Cheng , Wei Yin , Kaixuan Wang , Xiaozhi Chen , Shijie Wang , Xin Yang

In this paper, we propose a deep learning architecture that produces accurate dense depth for the outdoor scene from a single color image and a sparse depth. Inspired by the indoor depth completion, our network estimates surface normals as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Jiaxiong Qiu , Zhaopeng Cui , Yinda Zhang , Xingdi Zhang , Shuaicheng Liu , Bing Zeng , Marc Pollefeys

A versatile video depth estimation model should (1) be accurate and consistent across frames, (2) produce high-resolution depth maps, and (3) support real-time streaming. We propose FlashDepth, a method that satisfies all three…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Gene Chou , Wenqi Xian , Guandao Yang , Mohamed Abdelfattah , Bharath Hariharan , Noah Snavely , Ning Yu , Paul Debevec

Visible images have been widely used for motion estimation. Thermal images, in contrast, are more challenging to be used in motion estimation since they typically have lower resolution, less texture, and more noise. In this paper, a novel…

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