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We present an algorithm for reconstructing dense, geometrically consistent depth for all pixels in a monocular video. We leverage a conventional structure-from-motion reconstruction to establish geometric constraints on pixels in the video.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-28 Xuan Luo , Jia-Bin Huang , Richard Szeliski , Kevin Matzen , Johannes Kopf

Accurate monocular depth estimation is crucial for 3D scene understanding, but existing methods often blur depth at object boundaries, introducing spurious intermediate 3D points. While achieving sharp edges usually requires very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Aurélien Cecille , Stefan Duffner , Franck Davoine , Rémi Agier , Thibault Neveu

Monocular depth estimation is vital for scene understanding and downstream tasks. We focus on the supervised setup, in which ground-truth depth is available only at training time. Based on knowledge about the high regularity of real 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Vaishakh Patil , Christos Sakaridis , Alexander Liniger , Luc Van Gool

A major element of depth perception and 3D understanding is the ability to predict the 3D layout of a scene and its contained objects for a novel pose. Indoor environments are particularly suitable for novel view prediction, since the set…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-13 Pulak Purkait , Ujwal Bonde , Christopher Zach

In this paper, we propose a novel method for monocular depth estimation in dynamic scenes. We first explore the arbitrariness of object's movement trajectory in dynamic scenes theoretically. To overcome the arbitrariness, we use assume that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Kebin Peng , John Quarles , Kevin Desai

Inferring geometrically consistent dense 3D scenes across a tuple of temporally consecutive images remains challenging for self-supervised monocular depth prediction pipelines. This paper explores how the increasingly popular transformer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Patrick Ruhkamp , Daoyi Gao , Hanzhi Chen , Nassir Navab , Benjamin Busam

A key contributor to recent progress in 3D detection from single images is monocular depth estimation. Existing methods focus on how to leverage depth explicitly, by generating pseudo-pointclouds or providing attention cues for image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Dennis Park , Jie Li , Dian Chen , Vitor Guizilini , Adrien Gaidon

We introduce a novel approach to learn geometries such as depth and surface normal from images while incorporating geometric context. The difficulty of reliably capturing geometric context in existing methods impedes their ability to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Xiaoxiao Long , Yuhang Zheng , Yupeng Zheng , Beiwen Tian , Cheng Lin , Lingjie Liu , Hao Zhao , Guyue Zhou , Wenping Wang

Depth estimation is of critical interest for scene understanding and accurate 3D reconstruction. Most recent approaches in depth estimation with deep learning exploit geometrical structures of standard sharp images to predict corresponding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-07 Marcela Carvalho , Bertrand Le Saux , Pauline Trouvé-Peloux , Andrés Almansa , Frédéric Champagnat

Monocular cameras are extensively employed in indoor robotics, but their performance is limited in visual odometry, depth estimation, and related applications due to the absence of scale information.Depth estimation refers to the process of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Yehao Liu , Ruoyan Xia , Xiaosu Xu , Zijian Wang , Yiqing Ya , Mingze Fan

Scale-aware monocular depth estimation poses a significant challenge in computer-aided endoscopic navigation. However, existing depth estimation methods that do not consider the geometric priors struggle to learn the absolute scale from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Ruofeng Wei , Bin Li , Kai Chen , Yiyao Ma , Yunhui Liu , Qi Dou

Monocular depth estimation is critical for endoscopists to perform spatial perception and 3D navigation of surgical sites. However, most of the existing methods ignore the important geometric structural consistency, which inevitably leads…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Yongming Yang , Shuwei Shao , Tao Yang , Peng Wang , Zhuo Yang , Chengdong Wu , Hao Liu

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

Monocular 3D object detection is of great significance for autonomous driving but remains challenging. The core challenge is to predict the distance of objects in the absence of explicit depth information. Unlike regressing the distance as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Xuepeng Shi , Qi Ye , Xiaozhi Chen , Chuangrong Chen , Zhixiang Chen , Tae-Kyun Kim

Monocular depth estimation is the base task in computer vision. It has a tremendous development in the decade with the development of deep learning. But the boundary blur of the depth map is still a serious problem. Research finds the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Xin Yang , Qingling Chang , Xinlin Liu , Yan Cui

This paper investigates the geometric consistency for monocular 3D object detection, which suffers from the ill-posed depth estimation. We first conduct a thorough analysis to reveal how existing methods fail to consistently localize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Qing Lian , Botao Ye , Ruijia Xu , Weilong Yao , Tong Zhang

Depth estimation from a single image represents a very exciting challenge in computer vision. While other image-based depth sensing techniques leverage on the geometry between different viewpoints (e.g., stereo or structure from motion),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-29 Pierluigi Zama Ramirez , Matteo Poggi , Fabio Tosi , Stefano Mattoccia , Luigi Di Stefano

This paper considers the problem of single image depth estimation. The employment of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) has recently brought about significant advancements in the research of this problem. However, most existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Junjie Hu , Mete Ozay , Yan Zhang , Takayuki Okatani

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

Self-supervised monocular depth estimation has achieved impressive performance on outdoor datasets. Its performance however degrades notably in indoor environments because of the lack of textures. Without rich textures, the photometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Boying Li , Yuan Huang , Zeyu Liu , Danping Zou , Wenxian Yu