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Depth sensing is of paramount importance for unmanned aerial and autonomous vehicles. Nonetheless, contemporary monocular depth estimation methods employing complex deep neural networks within Convolutional Neural Networks are inadequately…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Cheng Feng , Congxuan Zhang , Zhen Chen , Weiming Hu , Liyue Ge

Aerial scene understanding systems face stringent payload restrictions and must often rely on monocular depth estimation for modeling scene geometry, which is an inherently ill-posed problem. Moreover, obtaining accurate ground truth data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Horatiu Florea , Sergiu Nedevschi

Monocular 3D lane detection is essential for autonomous driving, but challenging due to the inherent lack of explicit spatial information. Multi-modal approaches rely on expensive depth sensors, while methods incorporating fully-supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Max van den Hoven , Kishaan Jeeveswaran , Pieter Piscaer , Thijs Wensveen , Elahe Arani , Bahram Zonooz

Multi-view stereo depth estimation based on cost volume usually works better than self-supervised monocular depth estimation except for moving objects and low-textured surfaces. So in this paper, we propose a multi-frame depth estimation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Zhuofei Huang , Jianlin Liu , Shang Xu , Ying Chen , Yong Liu

Motivated by the astonishing capabilities of natural intelligent agents and inspired by theories from psychology, this paper explores the idea that perception gets coupled to 3D properties of the world via interaction with the environment.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Antonio Loquercio , Alexey Dosovitskiy , Davide Scaramuzza

Depth estimation is a fundamental task in 3D computer vision, crucial for applications such as 3D reconstruction, free-viewpoint rendering, robotics, autonomous driving, and AR/VR technologies. Traditional methods relying on hardware…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Zhen Xu , Hongyu Zhou , Sida Peng , Haotong Lin , Haoyu Guo , Jiahao Shao , Peishan Yang , Qinglin Yang , Sheng Miao , Xingyi He , Yifan Wang , Yue Wang , Ruizhen Hu , Yiyi Liao , Xiaowei Zhou , Hujun Bao

Recent work on depth estimation up to now has only focused on projective images ignoring 360 content which is now increasingly and more easily produced. We show that monocular depth estimation models trained on traditional images produce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Nikolaos Zioulis , Antonis Karakottas , Dimitrios Zarpalas , Petros Daras

Depth cameras have found applications in diverse fields, such as computer vision, artificial intelligence, and video gaming. However, the high latency and low frame rate of existing commodity depth cameras impose limitations on their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Peyman Gholami , Robert Xiao

Depth Estimation has wide reaching applications in the field of Computer vision such as target tracking, augmented reality, and self-driving cars. The goal of Monocular Depth Estimation is to predict the depth map, given a 2D monocular RGB…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Mayank Poddar , Akash Mishra , Mohit Kewlani , Haoyang Pei

Self-supervised multi-frame monocular depth estimation relies on the geometric consistency between successive frames under the assumption of a static scene. However, the presence of moving objects in dynamic scenes introduces inevitable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Sungmin Woo , Wonjoon Lee , Woo Jin Kim , Dogyoon Lee , Sangyoun Lee

UAVs have become an essential photogrammetric measurement as they are affordable, easily accessible and versatile. Aerial images captured from UAVs have applications in small and large scale texture mapping, 3D modelling, object detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Logambal Madhuanand , Francesco Nex , Michael Ying Yang

Autonomous vehicles rely heavily on sensors such as camera and LiDAR, which provide real-time information about their surroundings for the tasks of perception, planning and control. Typically a LiDAR can only provide sparse point cloud…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-07 Lin Bai , Yiming Zhao , Mahdi Elhousni , Xinming Huang

Single-view depth estimation refers to the ability to derive three-dimensional information per pixel from a single two-dimensional image. Single-view depth estimation is an ill-posed problem because there are multiple depth solutions that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Javier Rodriguez-Puigvert

Despite advancements in self-supervised monocular depth estimation, challenges persist in dynamic scenarios due to the dependence on assumptions about a static world. In this paper, we present Manydepth2, to achieve precise depth estimation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Kaichen Zhou , Jia-Wang Bian , Jian-Qing Zheng , Jiaxing Zhong , Qian Xie , Niki Trigoni , Andrew Markham

Vision-based depth estimation is a key feature in autonomous systems, which often relies on a single camera or several independent ones. In such a monocular setup, dense depth is obtained with either additional input from one or several…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Florent Bartoccioni , Éloi Zablocki , Patrick Pérez , Matthieu Cord , Karteek Alahari

We present a method for depth estimation with monocular images, which can predict high-quality depth on diverse scenes up to an affine transformation, thus preserving accurate shapes of a scene. Previous methods that predict metric depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Wei Yin , Xinlong Wang , Chunhua Shen , Yifan Liu , Zhi Tian , Songcen Xu , Changming Sun , Dou Renyin

Autonomous vehicles and robots need to operate over a wide variety of scenarios in order to complete tasks efficiently and safely. Multi-camera self-supervised monocular depth estimation from videos is a promising way to reason about the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Takayuki Kanai , Igor Vasiljevic , Vitor Guizilini , Adrien Gaidon , Rares Ambrus

Surround depth estimation provides a cost-effective alternative to LiDAR for 3D perception in autonomous driving. While recent self-supervised methods explore multi-camera settings to improve scale awareness and scene coverage, they are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Weimin Liu , Jiyuan Qiu , Wenjun Wang , Joshua H. Meng

Self-supervised monocular depth estimation has seen significant progress in recent years, especially in outdoor environments. However, depth prediction results are not satisfying in indoor scenes where most of the existing data are captured…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Runze Li , Pan Ji , Yi Xu , Bir Bhanu

Near field depth estimation around a self driving car is an important function that can be achieved by four wide angle fisheye cameras having a field of view of over 180. Depth estimation based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Varun Ravi Kumar , Stefan Milz , Martin Simon , Christian Witt , Karl Amende , Johannes Petzold , Senthil Yogamani , Timo Pech