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Recent advances in monocular depth estimation methods (MDE) and their improved accuracy open new possibilities for their applications. In this paper, we investigate how monocular depth estimates can be used for relative pose estimation. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Yaqing Ding , Viktor Kocur , Václav Vávra , Zuzana Berger Haladová , Jian Yang , Torsten Sattler , Zuzana Kukelova

Self-supervised monocular depth and ego-motion estimation is a promising approach to replace or supplement expensive depth sensors such as LiDAR for robotics applications like autonomous driving. However, most research in this area focuses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Vitor Guizilini , Igor Vasiljevic , Rares Ambrus , Greg Shakhnarovich , Adrien Gaidon

Monocular depth estimation, similar to other image-based tasks, is prone to erroneous predictions due to ambiguities in the image, for example, caused by dynamic objects or shadows. For this reason, pixel-wise uncertainty assessment is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Julia Hornauer , Amir El-Ghoussani , Vasileios Belagiannis

Monocular depth estimation is the base task in computer vision. It has a tremendous development in the decade with the development of deep learning. But the boundary blur of the depth map is still a serious problem. Research finds the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Xin Yang , Qingling Chang , Xinlin Liu , Yan Cui

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

Monocular Depth Estimation (MDE) is a fundamental computer vision task with important applications in 3D vision. The current mainstream MDE methods employ an encoder-decoder architecture with multi-level/scale feature processing. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Huibin Bai , Shuai Li , Hanxiao Zhai , Yanbo Gao , Chong Lv , Yibo Wang , Haipeng Ping , Wei Hua , Xingyu Gao

There has been tremendous research progress in estimating the depth of a scene from a monocular camera image. Existing methods for single-image depth prediction are exclusively based on deep neural networks, and their training can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Ali Jahani Amiri , Shing Yan Loo , Hong Zhang

This paper reports a new continuous 3D loss function for learning depth from monocular images. The dense depth prediction from a monocular image is supervised using sparse LIDAR points, which enables us to leverage available open source…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Minghan Zhu , Maani Ghaffari , Yuanxin Zhong , Pingping Lu , Zhong Cao , Ryan M. Eustice , Huei Peng

Monocular depth estimation from a single image is an ill-posed problem for computer vision due to insufficient reliable cues as the prior knowledge. Besides the inter-frame supervision, namely stereo and adjacent frames, extensive prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Zhengyang Lu , Ying Chen

Bokeh rendering and depth estimation share a fundamental optical connection, yet existing methods fail to fully exploit this reciprocity. Conventional bokeh pipelines rely heavily on noisy depth maps that inevitably introduce visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Hangwei Zhang , Armando Fortes , Tianyi Wei , Xingang Pan

By training over large-scale datasets, zero-shot monocular depth estimation (MDE) methods show robust performance in the wild but often suffer from insufficient detail. Although recent diffusion-based MDE approaches exhibit a superior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Xiang Zhang , Bingxin Ke , Hayko Riemenschneider , Nando Metzger , Anton Obukhov , Markus Gross , Konrad Schindler , Christopher Schroers

Estimating depth from single RGB images and videos is of widespread interest due to its applications in many areas, including autonomous driving, 3D reconstruction, digital entertainment, and robotics. More than 500 deep learning-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Uchitha Rajapaksha , Ferdous Sohel , Hamid Laga , Dean Diepeveen , Mohammed Bennamoun

The field of monocular depth estimation is continually evolving with the advent of numerous innovative models and extensions. However, research on monocular depth estimation methods specifically for underwater scenes remains limited,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Wenxiang Gua , Lin Qia

In this paper, we address the problem of monocular depth estimation when only a limited number of training image-depth pairs are available. To achieve a high regression accuracy, the state-of-the-art estimation methods rely on CNNs trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-07 Rongrong Ji , Ke Li , Yan Wang , Xiaoshuai Sun , Feng Guo , Xiaowei Guo , Yongjian Wu , Feiyue Huang , Jiebo Luo

Depth perception is paramount to tackle real-world problems, ranging from autonomous driving to consumer applications. For the latter, depth estimation from a single image represents the most versatile solution, since a standard camera is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Filippo Aleotti , Giulio Zaccaroni , Luca Bartolomei , Matteo Poggi , Fabio Tosi , Stefano Mattoccia

Monocular depth estimation plays a critical role in various computer vision and robotics applications such as localization, mapping, and 3D object detection. Recently, learning-based algorithms achieve huge success in depth estimation by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Dongseok Shim , H. Jin Kim

This paper presents an open and comprehensive framework to systematically evaluate state-of-the-art contributions to self-supervised monocular depth estimation. This includes pretraining, backbone, architectural design choices and loss…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Jaime Spencer , Chris Russell , Simon Hadfield , Richard Bowden

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

Our study introduces a novel, low-cost, and reproducible framework for real-time, object-level structural assessment and geolocation of roadside vegetation and infrastructure with commonly available but underutilized dashboard camera…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Durga Joshi , Chandi Witharana , Robert Fahey , Thomas Worthley , Zhe Zhu , Diego Cerrai

Multi-frame depth estimation improves over single-frame approaches by also leveraging geometric relationships between images via feature matching, in addition to learning appearance-based features. In this paper we revisit feature matching…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Vitor Guizilini , Rares Ambrus , Dian Chen , Sergey Zakharov , Adrien Gaidon