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Unsupervised monocular depth estimation has received widespread attention because of its capability to train without ground truth. In real-world scenarios, the images may be blurry or noisy due to the influence of weather conditions and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Runze Liu , Dongchen Zhu , Guanghui Zhang , Yue Xu , Wenjun Shi , Xiaolin Zhang , Lei Wang , Jiamao Li

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

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

A reliable sense-and-avoid system is critical to enabling safe autonomous operation of unmanned aircraft. Existing sense-and-avoid methods often require specialized sensors that are too large or power intensive for use on small unmanned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-04 John Mern , Kyle Julian , Rachael E. Tompa , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

Due to difficulties in acquiring ground truth depth of equirectangular (360) images, the quality and quantity of equirectangular depth data today is insufficient to represent the various scenes in the world. Therefore, 360 depth estimation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Ilwi Yun , Hyuk-Jae Lee , Chae Eun Rhee

Self-supervised monocular depth estimation has been widely studied, owing to its practical importance and recent promising improvements. However, most works suffer from limited supervision of photometric consistency, especially in weak…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Hyunyoung Jung , Eunhyeok Park , Sungjoo Yoo

Self-supervised deep learning methods have leveraged stereo images for training monocular depth estimation. Although these methods show strong results on outdoor datasets such as KITTI, they do not match performance of supervised methods on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Benjamin Keltjens , Tom van Dijk , Guido de Croon

Self-supervised monocular depth prediction provides a cost-effective solution to obtain the 3D location of each pixel. However, the existing approaches usually lead to unsatisfactory accuracy, which is critical for autonomous robots. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Ziyue Feng , Longlong Jing , Peng Yin , Yingli Tian , Bing Li

Monocular depth estimation has applications in many fields, such as autonomous navigation and extended reality, making it an essential computer vision task. However, current methods often produce smooth depth maps that lack the fine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Arun Muthukkumar

3D object detection based on monocular camera data is a key enabler for autonomous driving. The task however, is ill-posed due to lack of depth information in 2D images. Recent deep learning methods show promising results to recover depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-18 Felix Nobis , Fabian Brunhuber , Simon Janssen , Johannes Betz , Markus Lienkamp

Monocular depth estimation (MDE) in the self-supervised scenario has emerged as a promising method as it refrains from the requirement of ground truth depth. Despite continuous efforts, MDE is still sensitive to scale changes especially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Peizhe Jiang , Wei Yang , Xiaoqing Ye , Xiao Tan , Meng Wu

State-of-the-art self-supervised learning approaches for monocular depth estimation usually suffer from scale ambiguity. They do not generalize well when applied on distance estimation for complex projection models such as in fisheye and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Varun Ravi Kumar , Marvin Klingner , Senthil Yogamani , Stefan Milz , Tim Fingscheidt , Patrick Maeder

In recent years, self-supervised methods for monocular depth estimation has rapidly become an significant branch of depth estimation task, especially for autonomous driving applications. Despite the high overall precision achieved, current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-10 Feng Xue , Guirong Zhuo , Ziyuan Huang , Wufei Fu , Zhuoyue Wu , Marcelo H. Ang

We study how autonomous robots can learn by themselves to improve their depth estimation capability. In particular, we investigate a self-supervised learning setup in which stereo vision depth estimates serve as targets for a convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-21 Diogo Martins , Kevin van Hecke , Guido de Croon

Unsupervised deep learning methods have shown promising performance for single-image depth estimation. Since most of these methods use binocular stereo pairs for self-supervision, the depth range is generally limited. Small-baseline stereo…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Saad Imran , Muhammad Umar Karim Khan , Sikander Bin Mukarram , Chong-Min Kyung

In this paper, we tackle the problem of estimating the depth of a scene from a monocular video sequence. In particular, we handle challenging scenarios, such as non-translational camera motion and dynamic scenes, where traditional structure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-11-20 Miaomiao Liu , Mathieu Salzmann , Xuming He

Recent advancements of neural networks lead to reliable monocular depth estimation. Monocular depth estimated techniques have the upper hand over traditional depth estimation techniques as it only needs one image during inference. Depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Alwyn Mathew , Aditya Prakash Patra , Jimson Mathew

While learning based depth estimation from images/videos has achieved substantial progress, there still exist intrinsic limitations. Supervised methods are limited by a small amount of ground truth or labeled data and unsupervised methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-24 Haofei Xu , Jianmin Zheng , Jianfei Cai , Juyong Zhang

In the field of monocular depth estimation (MDE), many models with excellent zero-shot performance in general scenes emerge recently. However, these methods often fail in predicting non-Lambertian surfaces, such as transparent or mirror…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Junrui Zhang , Jiaqi Li , Yachuan Huang , Yiran Wang , Jinghong Zheng , Liao Shen , Zhiguo Cao

Monocular depth estimation in endoscopy videos can enable assistive and robotic surgery to obtain better coverage of the organ and detection of various health issues. Despite promising progress on mainstream, natural image depth estimation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Akshay Paruchuri , Samuel Ehrenstein , Shuxian Wang , Inbar Fried , Stephen M. Pizer , Marc Niethammer , Roni Sengupta