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In this paper, we present a new method for multi-view geometric reconstruction. In recent years, large vision models have rapidly developed, performing excellently across various tasks and demonstrating remarkable generalization…

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Self-supervised monocular depth estimation networks are trained to predict scene depth using nearby frames as a supervision signal during training. However, for many applications, sequence information in the form of video frames is also…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Jamie Watson , Oisin Mac Aodha , Victor Prisacariu , Gabriel Brostow , Michael Firman

Depth information is important for autonomous systems to perceive environments and estimate their own state. Traditional depth estimation methods, like structure from motion and stereo vision matching, are built on feature correspondences…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-06 Chaoqiang Zhao , Qiyu Sun , Chongzhen Zhang , Yang Tang , Feng Qian

Recent techniques in self-supervised monocular depth estimation are approaching the performance of supervised methods, but operate in low resolution only. We show that high resolution is key towards high-fidelity self-supervised monocular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-04 Sudeep Pillai , Rares Ambrus , Adrien Gaidon

Self-supervised monocular depth estimation methods aim to be used in critical applications such as autonomous vehicles for environment analysis. To circumvent the potential imperfections of these approaches, a quantification of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Rémi Marsal , Florian Chabot , Angelique Loesch , William Grolleau , Hichem Sahbi

Monocular depth estimation is a critical function in computer vision applications. This paper shows that large language models (LLMs) can effectively interpret depth with minimal supervision, using efficient resource utilization and a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Zhongyi Xia , Tianzhao Wu

The advent of autonomous driving and advanced driver assistance systems necessitates continuous developments in computer vision for 3D scene understanding. Self-supervised monocular depth estimation, a method for pixel-wise distance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Arnav Varma , Hemang Chawla , Bahram Zonooz , Elahe Arani

Self-supervised monocular depth estimation has shown impressive results in static scenes. It relies on the multi-view consistency assumption for training networks, however, that is violated in dynamic object regions and occlusions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Libo Sun , Jia-Wang Bian , Huangying Zhan , Wei Yin , Ian Reid , Chunhua Shen

Monocular depth estimation (MDE) with self-supervised training approaches struggles in low-texture areas, where photometric losses may lead to ambiguous depth predictions. To address this, we propose a novel technique that enhances spatial…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-14 Marwane Hariat , Antoine Manzanera , David Filliat

In this article, we tackle the problem of depth estimation from single monocular images. Compared with depth estimation using multiple images such as stereo depth perception, depth from monocular images is much more challenging. Prior work…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Fayao Liu , Chunhua Shen , Guosheng Lin , Ian Reid

Self-supervised learning for monocular depth estimation is widely investigated as an alternative to supervised learning approach, that requires a lot of ground truths. Previous works have successfully improved the accuracy of depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Noriaki Hirose , Shun Taguchi , Keisuke Kawano , Satoshi Koide

As an essential component for many autonomous driving and robotic activities such as ego-motion estimation, obstacle avoidance and scene understanding, monocular depth estimation (MDE) has attracted great attention from the computer vision…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Xingshuai Dong , Matthew A. Garratt , Sreenatha G. Anavatti , Hussein A. Abbass

Self-supervised monocular depth estimation has emerged as a promising approach since it does not rely on labeled training data. Most methods combine convolution and Transformer to model long-distance dependencies to estimate depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Xuezhi Xiang , Yao Wang , Lei Zhang , Denis Ombati , Himaloy Himu , Xiantong Zhen

This paper focuses on self-supervised monocular depth estimation in dynamic scenes trained on monocular videos. Existing methods jointly estimate pixel-wise depth and motion, relying mainly on an image reconstruction loss. Dynamic regions1…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Hoang Chuong Nguyen , Tianyu Wang , Jose M. Alvarez , Miaomiao Liu

Depth estimation is a critical topic for robotics and vision-related tasks. In monocular depth estimation, in comparison with supervised learning that requires expensive ground truth labeling, self-supervised methods possess great potential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Jinchang Zhang , Praveen Kumar Reddy , Xue-Iuan Wong , Yiannis Aloimonos , Guoyu Lu

Monocular depth estimation, enabled by self-supervised learning, is a key technique for 3D perception in computer vision. However, it faces significant challenges in real-world scenarios, which encompass adverse weather variations, motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Runze Chen , Haiyong Luo , Fang Zhao , Jingze Yu , Yupeng Jia , Juan Wang , Xuepeng Ma

Self-supervised depth learning from monocular images normally relies on the 2D pixel-wise photometric relation between temporally adjacent image frames. However, they neither fully exploit the 3D point-wise geometric correspondences, nor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Kaichen Zhou , Lanqing Hong , Changhao Chen , Hang Xu , Chaoqiang Ye , Qingyong Hu , Zhenguo Li

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

Depth information is crucial for autonomous driving and intelligent robot navigation. The simplicity and flexibility of self-supervised monocular depth estimation are conducive to its role in these fields. However, most existing monocular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Zeyu Cheng , Tongfei Liu , Tao Lei , Xiang Hua , Yi Zhang , Chengkai Tang

Solving depth estimation with monocular cameras enables the possibility of widespread use of cameras as low-cost depth estimation sensors in applications such as autonomous driving and robotics. However, learning such a scalable depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Bin Cheng , Inderjot Singh Saggu , Raunak Shah , Gaurav Bansal , Dinesh Bharadia