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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

It is widely believed that sparse supervision is worse than dense supervision in the field of depth completion, but the underlying reasons for this are rarely discussed. To this end, we revisit the task of radar-camera depth completion and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Huadong Li , Minhao Jing , Jiajun Liang , Haoqiang Fan , Renhe Ji

Depth completion, which aims to generate high-quality dense depth maps from sparse depth maps, has attracted increasing attention in recent years. Previous work usually employs RGB images as guidance, and introduces iterative spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Xinglong Sun , Jean Ponce , Yu-Xiong Wang

Accurate depth information is essential for many computer vision applications. Yet, no available dataset recording method allows for fully dense accurate depth estimation in a large scale dynamic environment. In this paper, we introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Simon de Moreau , Mathias Corsia , Hassan Bouchiba , Yasser Almehio , Andrei Bursuc , Hafid El-Idrissi , Fabien Moutarde

We propose a novel plug-and-play (PnP) module for improving depth prediction with taking arbitrary patterns of sparse depths as input. Given any pre-trained depth prediction model, our PnP module updates the intermediate feature map such…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-12 Tsun-Hsuan Wang , Fu-En Wang , Juan-Ting Lin , Yi-Hsuan Tsai , Wei-Chen Chiu , Min Sun

Depth prediction plays a key role in understanding a 3D scene. Several techniques have been developed throughout the years, among which Convolutional Neural Network has recently achieved state-of-the-art performance on estimating depth from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Binghan Li , Yindong Hua , Yifeng Liu , Mi Lu

Depth completion is the task of generating a dense depth map given an image and a sparse depth map as inputs. It has important applications in various downstream tasks. In this paper, we present OGNI-DC, a novel framework for depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Yiming Zuo , Jia Deng

We consider the problem of dense depth prediction from a sparse set of depth measurements and a single RGB image. Since depth estimation from monocular images alone is inherently ambiguous and unreliable, to attain a higher level of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Fangchang Ma , Sertac Karaman

The perception of transparent objects is one of the well-known challenges in computer vision. Conventional depth sensors have difficulty in sensing the depth of transparent objects due to refraction and reflection of light. Previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Xianghui Fan , Zhaoyu Chen , Mengyang Pan , Anping Deng , Hang Yang

We propose a deep neural network architecture to infer dense depth from an image and a sparse point cloud. It is trained using a video stream and corresponding synchronized sparse point cloud, as obtained from a LIDAR or other range sensor,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Alex Wong , Stefano Soatto

Dense depth estimation using millimeter-wave radar typically requires dense LiDAR supervision, generated via multi-frame projection and interpolation, for guiding the learning of accurate depth from sparse radar measurements and RGB images.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Xingrui Qin , Wentao Zhao , Chuan Cao , Yihe Niu , Tianchen Deng , Houcheng Jiang , Rui Guo , Jingchuan Wang

Autonomous field robots operating in unstructured environments require robust perception to ensure safe and reliable operations. Recent advances in monocular depth estimation have demonstrated the potential of low-cost cameras as depth…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Marco Job , Thomas Stastny , Eleni Kelasidi , Roland Siegwart , Michael Pantic

This work presents the Large Depth Completion Model (LDCM), a simple, effective, and robust framework for single-view metric depth estimation with sparse observations. Without relying on complex architectural designs, LDCM generates…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Zhu Yu , Zhengyi Zhao , Runmin Zhang , Lingteng Qiu , Kejie Qiu , Yisheng He , Siyu Zhu , Zilong Dong , Si-Yuan Cao , Hui-Liang Shen

The goal of our work is to complete the depth channel of an RGB-D image. Commodity-grade depth cameras often fail to sense depth for shiny, bright, transparent, and distant surfaces. To address this problem, we train a deep network that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-03 Yinda Zhang , Thomas Funkhouser

We describe a method to infer dense depth from camera motion and sparse depth as estimated using a visual-inertial odometry system. Unlike other scenarios using point clouds from lidar or structured light sensors, we have few hundreds to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-22 Alex Wong , Xiaohan Fei , Stephanie Tsuei , Stefano Soatto

Commercial RGB-D cameras often produce noisy, incomplete depth maps for non-Lambertian objects. Traditional depth completion methods struggle to generalize due to the limited diversity and scale of training data. Recent advances exploit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Wenzhou Lyu , Jialing Lin , Wenqi Ren , Ruihao Xia , Feng Qian , Yang Tang

Perceiving the three-dimensional (3D) structure of the spacecraft is a prerequisite for successfully executing many on-orbit space missions, and it can provide critical input for many downstream vision algorithms. In this paper, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Xiang Liu , Hongyuan Wang , Zhiqiang Yan , Yu Chen , Xinlong Chen , Weichun Chen

We propose a method for depth estimation under different illumination conditions, i.e., day and night time. As photometry is uninformative in regions under low-illumination, we tackle the problem through a multi-sensor fusion approach,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Vadim Ezhov , Hyoungseob Park , Zhaoyang Zhang , Rishi Upadhyay , Howard Zhang , Chethan Chinder Chandrappa , Achuta Kadambi , Yunhao Ba , Julie Dorsey , Alex Wong

Computer vision techniques play a central role in the perception stack of autonomous vehicles. Such methods are employed to perceive the vehicle surroundings given sensor data. 3D LiDAR sensors are commonly used to collect sparse 3D point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Lucas Nunes , Rodrigo Marcuzzi , Benedikt Mersch , Jens Behley , Cyrill Stachniss

LiDAR sensors are widely used in autonomous driving due to the reliable 3D spatial information. However, the data of LiDAR is sparse and the frequency of LiDAR is lower than that of cameras. To generate denser point clouds spatially and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-09 Xudong Huang , Chunyu Lin , Haojie Liu , Lang Nie , Yao Zhao