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Dense depth estimation plays a key role in multiple applications such as robotics, 3D reconstruction, and augmented reality. While sparse signal, e.g., LiDAR and Radar, has been leveraged as guidance for enhancing dense depth estimation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Yu-Kai Huang , Yueh-Cheng Liu , Tsung-Han Wu , Hung-Ting Su , Yu-Cheng Chang , Tsung-Lin Tsou , Yu-An Wang , Winston H. Hsu

Depth perception is considered an invaluable source of information for various vision tasks. However, depth maps acquired using consumer-level sensors still suffer from non-negligible noise. This fact has recently motivated researchers to…

Unsupervised depth completion and estimation methods are trained by minimizing reconstruction error. Block artifacts from resampling, intensity saturation, and occlusions are amongst the many undesirable by-products of common data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Yangchao Wu , Tian Yu Liu , Hyoungseob Park , Stefano Soatto , Dong Lao , Alex Wong

Depth estimation is an essential component in understanding the 3D geometry of a scene, with numerous applications in urban and indoor settings. These scenes are characterized by a prevalence of human made structures, which in most of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-03 Mattia Rossi , Mireille El Gheche , Andreas Kuhn , Pascal Frossard

Depth completion endeavors to reconstruct a dense depth map from sparse depth measurements, leveraging the information provided by a corresponding color image. Existing approaches mostly hinge on single-scale propagation strategies that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Kun Wang , Zhiqiang Yan , Junkai Fan , Jun Li , Jian Yang

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

3D LiDAR scene completion from point clouds is a fundamental component of perception systems in autonomous vehicles. Previous methods have predominantly employed diffusion models for high-fidelity reconstruction. However, their multi-step…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Wenzhe He , Xiaojun Chen , Ruiqi Wang , Ruihui Li , Huilong Pi , Jiapeng Zhang , Zhuo Tang , Kenli Li

In this paper, we explore the possibility of achieving a more accurate depth estimation by fusing monocular images and Radar points using a deep neural network. We give a comprehensive study of the fusion between RGB images and Radar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-02 Juan-Ting Lin , Dengxin Dai , Luc Van Gool

Depth estimation is an active area of research in the field of computer vision, and has garnered significant interest due to its rising demand in a large number of applications ranging from robotics and unmanned aerial vehicles to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Linda Wang , Mahmoud Famouri , Alexander Wong

Since convolutional neural networks perform well in learning generalizable image priors from large-scale data, these models have been widely used in image denoising tasks. However, the computational complexity increases dramatically as well…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-29 Yuanfan Zhang , Gen Li , Lei Sun

This paper proposes a depth estimation method using radar-image fusion by addressing the uncertain vertical directions of sparse radar measurements. In prior radar-image fusion work, image features are merged with the uncertain sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Masaya Kotani , Takeru Oba , Norimichi Ukita

LiDAR point clouds are fundamental to various applications, yet the extreme sparsity of high-precision geometric details hinders efficient context modeling, thereby limiting the compression speed and performance of existing methods. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Pengpeng Yu , Haoran Li , Runqing Jiang , Dingquan Li , Jing Wang , Liang Lin , Yulan Guo

This paper introduces a new method for learning and inferring sparse representations of depth (disparity) maps. The proposed algorithm relaxes the usual assumption of the stationary noise model in sparse coding. This enables learning from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-05-20 Ivana Tosic , Bruno A. Olshausen , Benjamin J. Culpepper

We propose a method to infer a dense depth map from a single image, its calibration, and the associated sparse point cloud. In order to leverage existing models (teachers) that produce putative depth maps, we propose an adaptive knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Tian Yu Liu , Parth Agrawal , Allison Chen , Byung-Woo Hong , Alex Wong

Learning to reconstruct depths in a single image by watching unlabeled videos via deep convolutional network (DCN) is attracting significant attention in recent years. In this paper, we introduce a surface normal representation for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-13 Zhenheng Yang , Peng Wang , Wei Xu , Liang Zhao , Ramakant Nevatia

Odometry is a critical task for autonomous systems for self-localization and navigation. We propose a novel LiDAR-Visual odometry framework that integrates LiDAR point clouds and images for accurate and robust pose estimation. Our method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 JunYing Huang , Ao Xu , DongSun Yong , KeRen Li , YuanFeng Wang , Qi Qin

Self-supervised surround-view depth estimation enables dense, low-cost 3D perception with a 360{\deg} field of view from multiple minimally overlapping images. Yet, most existing methods suffer from depth estimates that are inconsistent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Samer Abualhanud , Christian Grannemann , Max Mehltretter

We propose a non-learning depth completion method for a sparse depth map captured using a light detection and ranging (LiDAR) sensor guided by a pair of stereo images. Generally, conventional stereo-aided depth completion methods have two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Yasuhiro Yao , Ryoichi Ishikawa , Shingo Ando , Kana Kurata , Naoki Ito , Jun Shimamura , Takeshi Oishi

Depth completion upgrades sparse depth measurements into dense depth maps guided by a conventional image. Existing methods for this highly ill-posed task operate in tightly constrained settings and tend to struggle when applied to images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Massimiliano Viola , Kevin Qu , Nando Metzger , Bingxin Ke , Alexander Becker , Konrad Schindler , Anton Obukhov

Depth estimation is one of the key technologies in some fields such as autonomous driving and robot navigation. However, the traditional method of using a single sensor is inevitably limited by the performance of the sensor. Therefore, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Guangyao Xu , Junfeng Fan , En Li , Xiaoyu Long , Rui Guo