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The success of soft robots in displaying emergent behaviors is tightly linked to the compliant interaction with the environment. However, to exploit such phenomena, proprioceptive sensing methods which do not hinder their softness are…

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

Dense and accurate depth estimation is essential for robotic manipulation, grasping, and navigation, yet currently available depth sensors are prone to errors on transparent, specular, and general non-Lambertian surfaces. To mitigate these…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Simon Dorer , Martin Büchner , Nick Heppert , Abhinav Valada

This work presents Depth Anything V2. Without pursuing fancy techniques, we aim to reveal crucial findings to pave the way towards building a powerful monocular depth estimation model. Notably, compared with V1, this version produces much…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Lihe Yang , Bingyi Kang , Zilong Huang , Zhen Zhao , Xiaogang Xu , Jiashi Feng , Hengshuang Zhao

Depth estimation is a fundamental task in 3D computer vision, crucial for applications such as 3D reconstruction, free-viewpoint rendering, robotics, autonomous driving, and AR/VR technologies. Traditional methods relying on hardware…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Zhen Xu , Hongyu Zhou , Sida Peng , Haotong Lin , Haoyu Guo , Jiahao Shao , Peishan Yang , Qinglin Yang , Sheng Miao , Xingyi He , Yifan Wang , Yue Wang , Ruizhen Hu , Yiyi Liao , Xiaowei Zhou , Hujun Bao

In this paper, we present a fast monocular depth estimation method for enabling 3D perception capabilities of low-cost underwater robots. We formulate a novel end-to-end deep visual learning pipeline named UDepth, which incorporates domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Boxiao Yu , Jiayi Wu , Md Jahidul Islam

We present a visual-inertial depth estimation pipeline that integrates monocular depth estimation and visual-inertial odometry to produce dense depth estimates with metric scale. Our approach performs global scale and shift alignment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Diana Wofk , René Ranftl , Matthias Müller , Vladlen Koltun

Monocular depth estimation in the wild inherently predicts depth up to an unknown scale. To resolve scale ambiguity issue, we present a learning algorithm that leverages monocular simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Jaehoon Choi , Dongki Jung , Yonghan Lee , Deokhwa Kim , Dinesh Manocha , Donghwan Lee

The estimation of depth in two-dimensional images has long been a challenging and extensively studied subject in computer vision. Recently, significant progress has been made with the emergence of Deep Learning-based approaches, which have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Vasileios Arampatzakis , George Pavlidis , Kyriakos Pantoglou , Nikolaos Mitianoudis , Nikos Papamarkos

Self-supervised monocular methods can efficiently learn depth information of weakly textured surfaces or reflective objects. However, the depth accuracy is limited due to the inherent ambiguity in monocular geometric modeling. In contrast,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-22 Xiaofeng Wang , Zheng Zhu , Guan Huang , Xu Chi , Yun Ye , Ziwei Chen , Xingang Wang

Monocular depth estimation aims to recover the depth information of 3D scenes from 2D images. Recent work has made significant progress, but its reliance on large-scale datasets and complex decoders has limited its efficiency and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Zeyu Ren , Zeyu Zhang , Wukai Li , Qingxiang Liu , Hao Tang

This paper presents a methodology to predict metric depth from monocular RGB images and an inertial measurement unit (IMU). To enable collision avoidance during autonomous flight, prior works either leverage heavy sensors (e.g., LiDARs or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Steven Yang , Xiaoyu Tian , Kshitij Goel , Wennie Tabib

Generalizing metric monocular depth estimation presents a significant challenge due to its ill-posed nature, while the entanglement between camera parameters and depth amplifies issues further, hindering multi-dataset training and zero-shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Karlo Koledić , Luka Petrović , Ivan Marković , Ivan Petrović

Vision-based depth estimation is a key feature in autonomous systems, which often relies on a single camera or several independent ones. In such a monocular setup, dense depth is obtained with either additional input from one or several…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Florent Bartoccioni , Éloi Zablocki , Patrick Pérez , Matthieu Cord , Karteek Alahari

360{\deg} cameras can capture complete environments in a single shot, which makes 360{\deg} imagery alluring in many computer vision tasks. However, monocular depth estimation remains a challenge for 360{\deg} data, particularly for high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Manuel Rey-Area , Mingze Yuan , Christian Richardt

Monocular depth estimation has recently progressed beyond ordinal depth to provide metric depth predictions. However, its reliability in underwater environments remains limited due to light attenuation and scattering, color distortion,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Zijie Cai , Christopher Metzler

Inferring the depth of transparent or mirror (ToM) surfaces represents a hard challenge for either sensors, algorithms, or deep networks. We propose a simple pipeline for learning to estimate depth properly for such surfaces with neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Alex Costanzino , Pierluigi Zama Ramirez , Matteo Poggi , Fabio Tosi , Stefano Mattoccia , Luigi Di Stefano

Self-supervised monocular depth estimation has been widely investigated to estimate depth images and relative poses from RGB images. This framework is attractive for researchers because the depth and pose networks can be trained from just…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Noriaki Hirose , Kosuke Tahara

Monocular depth estimation involves predicting depth from a single RGB image and plays a crucial role in applications such as autonomous driving, robotic navigation, 3D reconstruction, etc. Recent advancements in learning-based methods have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Jingming Xia , Guanqun Cao , Guang Ma , Yiben Luo , Qinzhao Li , John Oyekan

Depth Estimation has wide reaching applications in the field of Computer vision such as target tracking, augmented reality, and self-driving cars. The goal of Monocular Depth Estimation is to predict the depth map, given a 2D monocular RGB…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Mayank Poddar , Akash Mishra , Mohit Kewlani , Haoyang Pei