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Autonomous cars need continuously updated depth information. Thus far, depth is mostly estimated independently for a single frame at a time, even if the method starts from video input. Our method produces a time series of depth maps, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Vaishakh Patil , Wouter Van Gansbeke , Dengxin Dai , Luc Van Gool

Image-based depth estimation has gained significant attention in recent research on computer vision for autonomous vehicles in intelligent transportation systems. This focus stems from its cost-effectiveness and wide range of potential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Elton F. de S. Soares , Carlos Alberto V. Campos

Depth is a vital piece of information for autonomous vehicles to perceive obstacles. Due to the relatively low price and small size of monocular cameras, depth estimation from a single RGB image has attracted great interest in the research…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Xingshuai Dong , Matthew A. Garratt , Sreenatha G. Anavatti , Hussein A. Abbass

In monocular depth estimation, disturbances in the image context, like moving objects or reflecting materials, can easily lead to erroneous predictions. For that reason, uncertainty estimates for each pixel are necessary, in particular for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Julia Hornauer , Vasileios Belagiannis

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 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

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

Self-supervised monocular depth estimation (MDE) has gained popularity for obtaining depth predictions directly from videos. However, these methods often produce scale invariant results, unless additional training signals are provided.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Gasser Elazab , Torben Gräber , Michael Unterreiner , Olaf Hellwich

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 2024-03-29 Luigi Piccinelli , Yung-Hsu Yang , Christos Sakaridis , Mattia Segu , Siyuan Li , Luc Van Gool , Fisher Yu

In this paper, we introduce Semi-SMD, a novel metric depth estimation framework tailored for surrounding cameras equipment in autonomous driving. In this work, the input data consists of adjacent surrounding frames and camera parameters. We…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Yusen Xie , Zhengmin Huang , Shaojie Shen , Jun Ma

As processing power has become more available, more human-like artificial intelligences are created to solve image processing tasks that we are inherently good at. As such we propose a model that estimates depth from a monocular image. Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Fabian Truetsch , Alfred Schöttl

Learning to predict scene depth from RGB inputs is a challenging task both for indoor and outdoor robot navigation. In this work we address unsupervised learning of scene depth and robot ego-motion where supervision is provided by monocular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-16 Vincent Casser , Soeren Pirk , Reza Mahjourian , Anelia Angelova

Depth estimation, as a necessary clue to convert 2D images into the 3D space, has been applied in many machine vision areas. However, to achieve an entire surrounding 360-degree geometric sensing, traditional stereo matching algorithms for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Keyang Zhou , Kailun Yang , Kaiwei Wang

Monocular depth estimation can play an important role in addressing the issue of deriving scene geometry from 2D images. It has been used in a variety of industries, including robots, self-driving cars, scene comprehension, 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Ruilin Ma , Shiyao Chen , Qin Zhang

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

Self-supervised depth estimation from monocular sequences relies on the joint learning of a depth and a pose network. Despite abundant research done to improve the depth network, efforts on the pose remain limited. In this context, even…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Changxuan Li , Nadine Berner , Nassir Navab , Federico Tombari , Stefano Gasperini

Perception of the environment is a critical component for enabling autonomous driving. It provides the vehicle with the ability to comprehend its surroundings and make informed decisions. Depth prediction plays a pivotal role in this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Houssem Boulahbal

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

Monocular depth inference is a fundamental problem for scene perception of robots. Specific robots may be equipped with a camera plus an optional depth sensor of any type and located in various scenes of different scales, whereas recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Haotian Wang , Meng Yang , Nanning Zheng

Neural networks have shown great success in extracting geometric information from color images. Especially, monocular depth estimation networks are increasingly reliable in real-world scenes. In this work we investigate the applicability of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Dominik Engel , Sebastian Hartwig , Timo Ropinski