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Monocular depth estimation is a highly challenging problem that is often addressed with deep neural networks. While these are able to use recognition of image features to predict reasonably looking depth maps the result often has low metric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Patrik Persson , Linn Öström , Carl Olsson

Learning based methods have shown very promising results for the task of depth estimation in single images. However, most existing approaches treat depth prediction as a supervised regression problem and as a result, require vast quantities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-14 Clément Godard , Oisin Mac Aodha , Gabriel J. Brostow

Depth information is important for autonomous systems to perceive environments and estimate their own state. Traditional depth estimation methods, like structure from motion and stereo vision matching, are built on feature correspondences…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-06 Chaoqiang Zhao , Qiyu Sun , Chongzhen Zhang , Yang Tang , Feng Qian

Monocular depth estimation has been increasingly adopted in robotics and autonomous driving for its ability to infer scene geometry from a single camera. In self-supervised monocular depth estimation frameworks, the network jointly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Tae-Wook Um , Ki-Hyeon Kim , Hyun-Duck Choi , Hyo-Sung Ahn

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

Traditional monocular Visual-Inertial Odometry (VIO) systems struggle in low-texture environments where sparse visual features are insufficient for accurate pose estimation. To address this, dense Monocular Depth Estimation (MDE) has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Arda Alniak , Sinan Kalkan , Mustafa Mert Ankarali , Afsar Saranli , Abdullah Aydin Alatan

Recent techniques in self-supervised monocular depth estimation are approaching the performance of supervised methods, but operate in low resolution only. We show that high resolution is key towards high-fidelity self-supervised monocular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-04 Sudeep Pillai , Rares Ambrus , Adrien Gaidon

We present a novel algorithm for self-supervised monocular depth completion. Our approach is based on training a neural network that requires only sparse depth measurements and corresponding monocular video sequences without dense depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Jaehoon Choi , Dongki Jung , Yonghan Lee , Deokhwa Kim , Dinesh Manocha , Donghwan Lee

Most learning-based methods estimate ego-motion by utilizing visual sensors, which suffer from dramatic lighting variations and textureless scenarios. In this paper, we incorporate sparse but accurate depth measurements obtained from lidars…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-06 Bin Li , Mu Hu , Shuling Wang , Lianghao Wang , Xiaojin Gong

Recovering the scene depth from a single image is an ill-posed problem that requires additional priors, often referred to as monocular depth cues, to disambiguate different 3D interpretations. In recent works, those priors have been learned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Lam Huynh , Phong Nguyen-Ha , Jiri Matas , Esa Rahtu , Janne Heikkila

Although cameras are ubiquitous, robotic platforms typically rely on active sensors like LiDAR for direct 3D perception. In this work, we propose a novel self-supervised monocular depth estimation method combining geometry with a new deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Vitor Guizilini , Rares Ambrus , Sudeep Pillai , Allan Raventos , Adrien Gaidon

Recent work has shown that CNN-based depth and ego-motion estimators can be learned using unlabelled monocular videos. However, the performance is limited by unidentified moving objects that violate the underlying static scene assumption in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-04 Jia-Wang Bian , Zhichao Li , Naiyan Wang , Huangying Zhan , Chunhua Shen , Ming-Ming Cheng , Ian Reid

Deep approaches to predict monocular depth and ego-motion have grown in recent years due to their ability to produce dense depth from monocular images. The main idea behind them is to optimize the photometric consistency over image…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-01-08 Vignesh Prasad , Dipanjan Das , Brojeshwar Bhowmick

This paper tackles the challenges of self-supervised monocular depth estimation in indoor scenes caused by large rotation between frames and low texture. We ease the learning process by obtaining coarse camera poses from monocular sequences…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Chaoqiang Zhao , Matteo Poggi , Fabio Tosi , Lei Zhou , Qiyu Sun , Yang Tang , Stefano Mattoccia

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

Recent advances in self-supervised learning havedemonstrated that it is possible to learn accurate monoculardepth reconstruction from raw video data, without using any 3Dground truth for supervision. However, in robotics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Robert McCraith , Lukas Neumann , Andrew Zisserman , Andrea Vedaldi

We present a novel approach for unsupervised learning of depth and ego-motion from monocular video. Unsupervised learning removes the need for separate supervisory signals (depth or ego-motion ground truth, or multi-view video). Prior work…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Reza Mahjourian , Martin Wicke , Anelia Angelova

Depth Estimation has wide reaching applications in the field of Computer vision such as target tracking, augmented reality, and self-driving cars. The goal of Monocular Depth Estimation is to predict the depth map, given a 2D monocular RGB…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Mayank Poddar , Akash Mishra , Mohit Kewlani , Haoyang Pei

In this work we present a monocular visual odometry (VO) algorithm which leverages geometry-based methods and deep learning. Most existing VO/SLAM systems with superior performance are based on geometry and have to be carefully designed for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Huangying Zhan , Chamara Saroj Weerasekera , Jiawang Bian , Ian Reid

Monocular depth estimation has drawn widespread attention from the vision community due to its broad applications. In this paper, we propose a novel physics (geometry)-driven deep learning framework for monocular depth estimation by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Shuwei Shao , Zhongcai Pei , Weihai Chen , Xingming Wu , Zhengguo Li