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Supervised learning based methods for monocular depth estimation usually require large amounts of extensively annotated training data. In the case of aerial imagery, this ground truth is particularly difficult to acquire. Therefore, in this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Max Hermann , Boitumelo Ruf , Martin Weinmann , Stefan Hinz

Depth estimation from single monocular images is a key component of scene understanding and has benefited largely from deep convolutional neural networks (CNN) recently. In this article, we take advantage of the recent deep residual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-14 Yuanzhouhan Cao , Zifeng Wu , Chunhua Shen

Monocular depth estimation, which plays a key role in understanding 3D scene geometry, is fundamentally an ill-posed problem. Existing methods based on deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) have examined this problem by learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-13 Huan Fu , Mingming Gong , Chaohui Wang , Dacheng Tao

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

We consider the problem of depth estimation from a single monocular image in this work. It is a challenging task as no reliable depth cues are available, e.g., stereo correspondences, motions, etc. Previous efforts have been focusing on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-10-01 Fayao Liu , Chunhua Shen , Guosheng Lin

Recovering structure and motion parameters given a image pair or a sequence of images is a well studied problem in computer vision. This is often achieved by employing Structure from Motion (SfM) or Simultaneous Localization and Mapping…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-07 Thanuja Dharmasiri , Andrew Spek , Tom Drummond

Neural implicit representations have emerged as a powerful paradigm for 3D reconstruction. However, despite their success, existing methods fail to capture fine geometric details and thin structures, especially in scenarios where only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Aarya Patel , Hamid Laga , Ojaswa Sharma

Per-pixel ground-truth depth data is challenging to acquire at scale. To overcome this limitation, self-supervised learning has emerged as a promising alternative for training models to perform monocular depth estimation. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Clément Godard , Oisin Mac Aodha , Michael Firman , Gabriel Brostow

The presence of spherical distortion in equirectangular projection (ERP) images presents a persistent challenge in dense regression tasks such as surface normal estimation. Although it may appear straightforward to repurpose architectures…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Kun Huang , Fanglue Zhang , Neil Dodgson

Dense and accurate 3D mapping from a monocular sequence is a key technology for several applications and still an open research area. This paper leverages recent results on single-view CNN-based depth estimation and fuses them with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-28 José M. Fácil , Alejo Concha , Luis Montesano , Javier Civera

The recent development of \emph{foundation models} for monocular depth estimation such as Depth Anything paved the way to zero-shot monocular depth estimation. Since it returns an affine-invariant disparity map, the favored technique to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Rémi Marsal , Alexandre Chapoutot , Philippe Xu , David Filliat

Humans naturally perceive a 3D scene in front of them through accumulation of information obtained from multiple interconnected projections of the scene and by interpreting their correspondence. This phenomenon has inspired artificial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Amirreza Farnoosh , Sarah Ostadabbas

Depth-aware video panoptic segmentation tackles the inverse projection problem of restoring panoptic 3D point clouds from video sequences, where the 3D points are augmented with semantic classes and temporally consistent instance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Andra Petrovai , Sergiu Nedevschi

Robust geometric and semantic scene understanding is ever more important in many real-world applications such as autonomous driving and robotic navigation. In this paper, we propose a multi-task learning-based approach capable of jointly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-22 Amir Atapour-Abarghouei , Toby P. Breckon

Perceiving 3D objects from monocular inputs is crucial for robotic systems, given its economy compared to multi-sensor settings. It is notably difficult as a single image can not provide any clues for predicting absolute depth values.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Tai Wang , Jiangmiao Pang , Dahua Lin

Unsupervised depth completion and estimation methods are trained by minimizing reconstruction error. Block artifacts from resampling, intensity saturation, and occlusions are amongst the many undesirable by-products of common data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Yangchao Wu , Tian Yu Liu , Hyoungseob Park , Stefano Soatto , Dong Lao , Alex Wong

Monocular depth estimation has improved significantly in recent years, driven by increasingly powerful models and large-scale training data. Predicted depth is increasingly used as an input signal for downstream tasks such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Viktor Kocur , Sithu Aung , Gabrielle Flood , Yaqing Ding , Lukas Bujnak , Torsten Sattler , Zuzana Kukelova

Self-supervised monocular depth estimation has emerged as a promising method because it does not require groundtruth depth maps during training. As an alternative for the groundtruth depth map, the photometric loss enables to provide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Jaehoon Choi , Dongki Jung , Donghwan Lee , Changick Kim

Depth information is the foundation of perception, essential for autonomous driving, robotics, and other source-constrained applications. Promptly obtaining accurate and efficient depth information allows for a rapid response in dynamic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Xin Zhang , Rabab Abdelfattah , Yuqi Song , Samuel A. Dauchert , Xiaofeng wang

We present a novel approach designed to address the complexities posed by challenging, out-of-distribution data in the single-image depth estimation task. Starting with images that facilitate depth prediction due to the absence of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Fabio Tosi , Pierluigi Zama Ramirez , Matteo Poggi