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Dense depth estimation from a single image is a key problem in computer vision, with exciting applications in a multitude of robotic tasks. Initially viewed as a direct regression problem, requiring annotated labels as supervision at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Vitor Guizilini , Jie Li , Rares Ambrus , Sudeep Pillai , Adrien Gaidon

Monocular depth estimation aims at estimating a pixelwise depth map for a single image, which has wide applications in scene understanding and autonomous driving. Existing supervised and unsupervised methods face great challenges.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-21 Xiaoyang Guo , Hongsheng Li , Shuai Yi , Jimmy Ren , Xiaogang Wang

UAVs have become an essential photogrammetric measurement as they are affordable, easily accessible and versatile. Aerial images captured from UAVs have applications in small and large scale texture mapping, 3D modelling, object detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Logambal Madhuanand , Francesco Nex , Michael Ying Yang

Self-supervised monocular depth estimation has been widely studied, owing to its practical importance and recent promising improvements. However, most works suffer from limited supervision of photometric consistency, especially in weak…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Hyunyoung Jung , Eunhyeok Park , Sungjoo Yoo

Depth completion is an important vision task, and many efforts have been made to enhance the quality of depth maps from sparse depth measurements. Despite significant advances, training these models to recover dense depth from sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Rizhao Fan , Zhigen Li , Heping Li , Ning An

Depth completion, the technique of estimating a dense depth image from sparse depth measurements, has a variety of applications in robotics and autonomous driving. However, depth completion faces 3 main challenges: the irregularly spaced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-04 Fangchang Ma , Guilherme Venturelli Cavalheiro , Sertac Karaman

Although both self-supervised single-frame and multi-frame depth estimation methods only require unlabeled monocular videos for training, the information they leverage varies because single-frame methods mainly rely on appearance-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Jie Xiang , Yun Wang , Lifeng An , Haiyang Liu , Jian Liu

We propose GeoNet, a jointly unsupervised learning framework for monocular depth, optical flow and ego-motion estimation from videos. The three components are coupled by the nature of 3D scene geometry, jointly learned by our framework in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-13 Zhichao Yin , Jianping Shi

Monocular depth estimation using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) has shown impressive performance in outdoor driving scenes. However, self-supervised learning of indoor depth from monocular sequences is quite challenging for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Chao Fan , Zhenyu Yin , Yue Li , Feiqing Zhang

Depth estimation is a critical topic for robotics and vision-related tasks. In monocular depth estimation, in comparison with supervised learning that requires expensive ground truth labeling, self-supervised methods possess great potential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Jinchang Zhang , Praveen Kumar Reddy , Xue-Iuan Wong , Yiannis Aloimonos , Guoyu Lu

Self-supervised learning is showing great promise for monocular depth estimation, using geometry as the only source of supervision. Depth networks are indeed capable of learning representations that relate visual appearance to 3D properties…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Vitor Guizilini , Rui Hou , Jie Li , Rares Ambrus , Adrien Gaidon

Accurate depth estimation with lowest compute and energy cost is a crucial requirement for unmanned and battery operated autonomous systems. Robotic applications require real time depth estimation for navigation and decision making under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Rajeev Patwari , Varo Ly

Despite advancements in self-supervised monocular depth estimation, challenges persist in dynamic scenarios due to the dependence on assumptions about a static world. In this paper, we present Manydepth2, to achieve precise depth estimation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Kaichen Zhou , Jia-Wang Bian , Jian-Qing Zheng , Jiaxing Zhong , Qian Xie , Niki Trigoni , Andrew Markham

Photometric loss and pseudo-label-based self-training are two widely used methods for training stereo networks on unlabeled data. However, they both struggle to provide accurate supervision in occluded regions. The former lacks valid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Peng Xu , Zhiyu Xiang , Tingming Bai , Tianyu Pu , Kai Wang , Chaojie Ji , Zhihao Yang , Eryun Liu

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 (MDE) has gained popularity for obtaining depth predictions directly from videos. However, these methods often produce scale invariant results, unless additional training signals are provided.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Gasser Elazab , Torben Gräber , Michael Unterreiner , Olaf Hellwich

Multi-frame depth estimation improves over single-frame approaches by also leveraging geometric relationships between images via feature matching, in addition to learning appearance-based features. In this paper we revisit feature matching…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Vitor Guizilini , Rares Ambrus , Dian Chen , Sergey Zakharov , Adrien Gaidon

The self-supervised learning of depth and pose from monocular sequences provides an attractive solution by using the photometric consistency of nearby frames as it depends much less on the ground-truth data. In this paper, we address the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-20 Tianwei Shen , Lei Zhou , Zixin Luo , Yao Yao , Shiwei Li , Jiahui Zhang , Tian Fang , Long Quan

Monocular depth inference has gained tremendous attention from researchers in recent years and remains as a promising replacement for expensive time-of-flight sensors, but issues with scale acquisition and implementation overhead still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Kenny Chen , Alexandra Pogue , Brett T. Lopez , Ali-akbar Agha-mohammadi , Ankur Mehta

Supervised depth estimation has achieved high accuracy due to the advanced deep network architectures. Since the groundtruth depth labels are hard to obtain, recent methods try to learn depth estimation networks in an unsupervised way by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-04 Shanshan Zhao , Huan Fu , Mingming Gong , Dacheng Tao