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Learning depth from a single image, as an important issue in scene understanding, has attracted a lot of attention in the past decade. The accuracy of the depth estimation has been improved from conditional Markov random fields,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-01 Lei He , Guanghui Wang , Zhanyi Hu

This paper reports a new continuous 3D loss function for learning depth from monocular images. The dense depth prediction from a monocular image is supervised using sparse LIDAR points, which enables us to leverage available open source…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Minghan Zhu , Maani Ghaffari , Yuanxin Zhong , Pingping Lu , Zhong Cao , Ryan M. Eustice , Huei Peng

Monocular Depth Estimation (MDE) enables spatial understanding, 3D reconstruction, and autonomous navigation, yet deep learning approaches often predict only relative depth without a consistent metric scale. This limitation reduces…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Jiuling Zhang

Monocular depth estimation is an extensively studied computer vision problem with a vast variety of applications. Deep learning-based methods have demonstrated promise for both supervised and unsupervised depth estimation from monocular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Richard Chen , Faisal Mahmood , Alan Yuille , Nicholas J. Durr

Accurate monocular metric depth estimation (MMDE) is crucial to solving downstream tasks in 3D perception and modeling. However, the remarkable accuracy of recent MMDE methods is confined to their training domains. These methods fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Luigi Piccinelli , Christos Sakaridis , Yung-Hsu Yang , Mattia Segu , Siyuan Li , Wim Abbeloos , Luc Van Gool

Over the past few years, monocular depth estimation and completion have been paid more and more attention from the computer vision community because of their widespread applications. In this paper, we introduce novel physics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Shuwei Shao , Zhongcai Pei , Weihai Chen , Peter C. Y. Chen , Zhengguo Li

Most geometric approaches to monocular Visual Odometry (VO) provide robust pose estimates, but sparse or semi-dense depth estimates. Off late, deep methods have shown good performance in generating dense depths and VO from monocular images…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-12-21 Vignesh Prasad , Brojeshwar Bhowmick

This paper tackles the challenges of self-supervised monocular depth estimation in indoor scenes caused by large rotation between frames and low texture. We ease the learning process by obtaining coarse camera poses from monocular sequences…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Chaoqiang Zhao , Matteo Poggi , Fabio Tosi , Lei Zhou , Qiyu Sun , Yang Tang , Stefano Mattoccia

We introduce Metric3D v2, a geometric foundation model for zero-shot metric depth and surface normal estimation from a single image, which is crucial for metric 3D recovery. While depth and normal are geometrically related and highly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Mu Hu , Wei Yin , Chi Zhang , Zhipeng Cai , Xiaoxiao Long , Kaixuan Wang , Hao Chen , Gang Yu , Chunhua Shen , Shaojie Shen

Accurate depth estimation is at the core of many applications in computer graphics, vision, and robotics. Current state-of-the-art monocular depth estimators, trained on extensive datasets, generalize well but lack 3D consistency needed for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Laura Fink , Linus Franke , Bernhard Egger , Joachim Keinert , Marc Stamminger

In this paper, we propose a novel method for monocular depth estimation in dynamic scenes. We first explore the arbitrariness of object's movement trajectory in dynamic scenes theoretically. To overcome the arbitrariness, we use assume that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Kebin Peng , John Quarles , Kevin Desai

Depth estimation is a cornerstone of 3D reconstruction and plays a vital role in minimally invasive endoscopic surgeries. However, most current depth estimation networks rely on traditional convolutional neural networks, which are limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Bojian Li , Bo Liu , Xinning Yao , Jinghua Yue , Fugen Zhou

Depth estimation from a single image represents a very exciting challenge in computer vision. While other image-based depth sensing techniques leverage on the geometry between different viewpoints (e.g., stereo or structure from motion),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-29 Pierluigi Zama Ramirez , Matteo Poggi , Fabio Tosi , Stefano Mattoccia , Luigi Di Stefano

Estimating precise metric depth and scene reconstruction from monocular endoscopy is a fundamental task for surgical navigation in robotic surgery. However, traditional stereo matching adopts binocular images to perceive the depth…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Ruofeng Wei , Bin Li , Hangjie Mo , Fangxun Zhong , Yonghao Long , Qi Dou , Yun-Hui Liu , Dong Sun

Monocular cameras are extensively employed in indoor robotics, but their performance is limited in visual odometry, depth estimation, and related applications due to the absence of scale information.Depth estimation refers to the process of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Yehao Liu , Ruoyan Xia , Xiaosu Xu , Zijian Wang , Yiqing Ya , Mingze Fan

We present GLNet, a self-supervised framework for learning depth, optical flow, camera pose and intrinsic parameters from monocular video - addressing the difficulty of acquiring realistic ground-truth for such tasks. We propose three…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Yuhua Chen , Cordelia Schmid , Cristian Sminchisescu

Monocular depth estimation is critical for endoscopists to perform spatial perception and 3D navigation of surgical sites. However, most of the existing methods ignore the important geometric structural consistency, which inevitably leads…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Yongming Yang , Shuwei Shao , Tao Yang , Peng Wang , Zhuo Yang , Chengdong Wu , Hao Liu

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

We present a novel unsupervised learning framework for single view depth estimation using monocular videos. It is well known in 3D vision that enlarging the baseline can increase the depth estimation accuracy, and jointly optimizing a set…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Lipu Zhou , Jiamin Ye , Montiel Abello , Shengze Wang , Michael Kaess

Monocular depth estimation is often described as an ill-posed and inherently ambiguous problem. Estimating depth from 2D images is a crucial step in scene reconstruction, 3Dobject recognition, segmentation, and detection. The problem can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Amlaan Bhoi