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Event cameras offer superior sensitivity to high-speed motion and extreme lighting, making event-based monocular depth estimation a promising approach for robust 3D perception in challenging conditions. However, progress is severely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Yinrui Ren , Jinjing Zhu , Kanghao Chen , Zhuoxiao Li , Jing Ou , Zidong Cao , Tongyan Hua , Peilun Shi , Yingchun Fu , Wufan Zhao , Hui Xiong

We present a self-supervised approach to training convolutional neural networks for dense depth estimation from monocular endoscopy data without a priori modeling of anatomy or shading. Our method only requires monocular endoscopic videos…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Xingtong Liu , Ayushi Sinha , Masaru Ishii , Gregory D. Hager , Austin Reiter , Russell H. Taylor , Mathias Unberath

Active depth sensors like structured light, lidar, and time-of-flight systems sample the depth of the entire scene uniformly at a fixed scan rate. This leads to limited spatio-temporal resolution where redundant static information is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Manasi Muglikar , Diederik Paul Moeys , Davide Scaramuzza

We propose a learning-based method that solves monocular stereo and can be extended to fuse depth information from multiple target frames. Given two unconstrained images from a monocular camera with known intrinsic calibration, our network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-13 Kaixuan Wang , Shaojie Shen

Supervised deep learning often suffers from the lack of sufficient training data. Specifically in the context of monocular depth map prediction, it is barely possible to determine dense ground truth depth images in realistic dynamic outdoor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-15 Yevhen Kuznietsov , Jörg Stückler , Bastian Leibe

This paper presents a probabilistic approach for online dense reconstruction using a single monocular camera moving through the environment. Compared to spatial stereo, depth estimation from motion stereo is challenging due to insufficient…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-27 Yonggen Ling , Kaixuan Wang , Shaojie Shen

Event camera sensors are bio-inspired sensors which asynchronously capture per-pixel brightness changes and output a stream of events encoding the polarity, location and time of these changes. These systems are witnessing rapid advancements…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Aupendu Kar , Vishnu Raj , Guan-Ming Su

Event cameras are novel vision sensors that sample, in an asynchronous fashion, brightness increments with low latency and high temporal resolution. The resulting streams of events are of high value by themselves, especially for high speed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-13 F. Paredes-Vallés , G. C. H. E. de Croon

Event cameras provide a number of benefits over traditional cameras, such as the ability to track incredibly fast motions, high dynamic range, and low power consumption. However, their application into computer vision problems, many of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Alex Zihao Zhu , Ziyun Wang , Kaung Khant , Kostas Daniilidis

We propose a method for dense depth estimation from an event stream generated when sweeping the focal plane of the driving lens attached to an event camera. In this method, a depth map is inferred from an ``event focal stack'' composed of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Kenta Horikawa , Mariko Isogawa , Hideo Saito , Shohei Mori

The monocular depth estimation task has recently revealed encouraging prospects, especially for the autonomous driving task. To tackle the ill-posed problem of 3D geometric reasoning from 2D monocular images, multi-frame monocular methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Zizhang Wu , Zhuozheng Li , Zhi-Gang Fan , Yunzhe Wu , Yuanzhu Gan , Jian Pu , Xianzhi Li

Depth estimation provides essential information to perform autonomous driving and driver assistance. Especially, Monocular Depth Estimation is interesting from a practical point of view, since using a single camera is cheaper than many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Akhil Gurram , Onay Urfalioglu , Ibrahim Halfaoui , Fahd Bouzaraa , Antonio M. Lopez

The ability to predict depth from a single image - using recent advances in CNNs - is of increasing interest to the vision community. Unsupervised strategies to learning are particularly appealing as they can utilize much larger and varied…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-04 Chaoyang Wang , Jose Miguel Buenaposada , Rui Zhu , Simon Lucey

Deep metric learning aims to learn features relying on the consistency or divergence of class labels. However, in monocular depth estimation, the absence of a natural definition of class poses challenges in the leveraging of deep metric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Chunpu Liu , Guanglei Yang , Wangmeng Zuo , Tianyi Zan

Event-based cameras have shown great promise in a variety of situations where frame based cameras suffer, such as high speed motions and high dynamic range scenes. However, developing algorithms for event measurements requires a new class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Alex Zihao Zhu , Liangzhe Yuan , Kenneth Chaney , Kostas Daniilidis

Visual object tracking under challenging conditions of motion and light can be hindered by the capabilities of conventional cameras, prone to producing images with motion blur. Event cameras are novel sensors suited to robustly perform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-16 Irene Perez-Salesa , Rodrigo Aldana-Lopez , Carlos Sagues

The ability to estimate rich geometry and camera motion from monocular imagery is fundamental to future interactive robotics and augmented reality applications. Different approaches have been proposed that vary in scene geometry…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-16 Jan Czarnowski , Tristan Laidlow , Ronald Clark , Andrew J. Davison

Depth cues have been proved very useful in various computer vision and robotic tasks. This paper addresses the problem of monocular depth estimation from a single still image. Inspired by the effectiveness of recent works on multi-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-05 Dan Xu , Elisa Ricci , Wanli Ouyang , Xiaogang Wang , Nicu Sebe

Event cameras have gained increasing attention for 3D reconstruction due to their high temporal resolution, low latency, and high dynamic range. They capture per-pixel brightness changes asynchronously, allowing accurate reconstruction…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Chuanzhi Xu , Haoxian Zhou , Haodong Chen , Vera Chung , Qiang Qu

Event cameras asynchronously capture brightness changes with low latency, high temporal resolution, and high dynamic range. However, annotation of event data is a costly and laborious process, which limits the use of deep learning methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Simon Klenk , David Bonello , Lukas Koestler , Nikita Araslanov , Daniel Cremers