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We present a deep learning system to infer the posterior distribution of a dense depth map associated with an image, by exploiting sparse range measurements, for instance from a lidar. While the lidar may provide a depth value for a small…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-18 Yanchao Yang , Alex Wong , Stefano Soatto

In this paper we consider the problem of estimating a dense depth map from a set of sparse LiDAR points. We use techniques from compressed sensing and the recently developed Alternating Direction Neural Networks (ADNNs) to create a deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Nathaniel Chodosh , Chaoyang Wang , Simon Lucey

Given the lidar measurements from an autonomous vehicle, we can project the points and generate a sparse depth image. Depth completion aims at increasing the resolution of such a depth image by infilling and interpolating the sparse depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Pietari Kaskela , Philipp Fischer , Timo Roman

Convolutional neural networks are designed for dense data, but vision data is often sparse (stereo depth, point clouds, pen stroke, etc.). We present a method to handle sparse depth data with optional dense RGB, and accomplish depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-03 Maximilian Jaritz , Raoul de Charette , Emilie Wirbel , Xavier Perrotton , Fawzi Nashashibi

We propose a method that combines sparse depth (LiDAR) measurements with an intensity image and to produce a dense high-resolution depth image. As there are few, but accurate, depth measurements from the scene, our method infers the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-01 Alireza Ahrabian , Joao F. C. Mota , Andrew M. Wallace

Depth completion from sparse LiDAR and high-resolution RGB data is one of the foundations for autonomous driving techniques. Current approaches often rely on CNN-based methods with several known drawbacks: flying pixel at depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Dennis Teutscher , Patrick Mangat , Oliver Wasenmüller

We introduce CAPA, a parameter-efficient test-time optimization framework that adapts pre-trained 3D foundation models (FMs) for depth completion, using sparse geometric cues. Unlike prior methods that train task-specific encoders for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Bingxin Ke , Qunjie Zhou , Jiahui Huang , Xuanchi Ren , Tianchang Shen , Konrad Schindler , Laura Leal-Taixé , Shengyu Huang

Dense depth cues are important and have wide applications in various computer vision tasks. In autonomous driving, LIDAR sensors are adopted to acquire depth measurements around the vehicle to perceive the surrounding environments. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-21 Zixuan Huang , Junming Fan , Shenggan Cheng , Shuai Yi , Xiaogang Wang , Hongsheng Li

Guided sparse depth upsampling aims to upsample an irregularly sampled sparse depth map when an aligned high-resolution color image is given as guidance. Many neural networks have been designed for this task. However, they often ignore the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Yi Guo , Ji Liu

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

Dense depth maps have been used as a key element of visual perception tasks. There have been tremendous efforts to enhance the depth quality, ranging from optimization-based to learning-based methods. Despite the remarkable progress for a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Jin-Hwi Park , Chanhwi Jeong , Junoh Lee , Hae-Gon Jeon

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

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

In this paper, we propose a deep learning architecture that produces accurate dense depth for the outdoor scene from a single color image and a sparse depth. Inspired by the indoor depth completion, our network estimates surface normals as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Jiaxiong Qiu , Zhaopeng Cui , Yinda Zhang , Xingdi Zhang , Shuaicheng Liu , Bing Zeng , Marc Pollefeys

Depth completion recovers a dense depth map from sensor measurements. Current methods are mostly tailored for very sparse depth measurements from LiDARs in outdoor settings, while for indoor scenes Time-of-Flight (ToF) or structured light…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Dmitry Senushkin , Mikhail Romanov , Ilia Belikov , Anton Konushin , Nikolay Patakin

Depth completion aims to recover a dense depth map from a sparse depth map with the corresponding color image as input. Recent approaches mainly formulate depth completion as a one-stage end-to-end learning task, which outputs dense depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Lina Liu , Xibin Song , Xiaoyang Lyu , Junwei Diao , Mengmeng Wang , Yong Liu , Liangjun Zhang

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

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

Robust three-dimensional scene understanding is now an ever-growing area of research highly relevant in many real-world applications such as autonomous driving and robotic navigation. In this paper, we propose a multi-task learning-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-16 Amir Atapour-Abarghouei , Toby P. Breckon

Generalizable depth completion enables the acquisition of dense metric depth maps for unseen environments, offering robust perception capabilities for various downstream tasks. However, training such models typically requires large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Haotian Wang , Aoran Xiao , Xiaoqin Zhang , Meng Yang , Shijian Lu