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Learning to generate 3D point clouds without 3D supervision is an important but challenging problem. Current solutions leverage various differentiable renderers to project the generated 3D point clouds onto a 2D image plane, and train deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Chen Chao , Zhizhong Han , Yu-Shen Liu , Matthias Zwicker

Solving the challenging problem of 3D object reconstruction from a single image appropriately gives existing technologies the ability to perform with a single monocular camera rather than requiring depth sensors. In recent years, thanks to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Guiju Ping , Mahdi Abolfazli Esfahani , Han Wang

The recent success of pre-trained 2D vision models is mostly attributable to learning from large-scale datasets. However, compared with 2D image datasets, the current pre-training data of 3D point cloud is limited. To overcome this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Yuan Yao , Yuanhan Zhang , Zhenfei Yin , Jiebo Luo , Wanli Ouyang , Xiaoshui Huang

Prior point cloud provides 3D environmental context, which enhances the capabilities of monocular camera in downstream vision tasks, such as 3D object detection, via data fusion. However, the absence of accurate and automated registration…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Yu Sheng , Lu Zhang , Xingchen Li , Yifan Duan , Yanyong Zhang , Yu Zhang , Jianmin Ji

The success of monocular depth estimation relies on large and diverse training sets. Due to the challenges associated with acquiring dense ground-truth depth across different environments at scale, a number of datasets with distinct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-26 René Ranftl , Katrin Lasinger , David Hafner , Konrad Schindler , Vladlen Koltun

Large-scale point cloud generated from 3D sensors is more accurate than its image-based counterpart. However, it is seldom used in visual pose estimation due to the difficulty in obtaining 2D-3D image to point cloud correspondences. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Mengdan Feng , Sixing Hu , Marcelo Ang , Gim Hee Lee

We propose a novel approach to self-supervised learning of point cloud representations by differentiable neural rendering. Motivated by the fact that informative point cloud features should be able to encode rich geometry and appearance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Di Huang , Sida Peng , Tong He , Honghui Yang , Xiaowei Zhou , Wanli Ouyang

Accurate monocular depth estimation is crucial for 3D scene understanding, but existing methods often blur depth at object boundaries, introducing spurious intermediate 3D points. While achieving sharp edges usually requires very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Aurélien Cecille , Stefan Duffner , Franck Davoine , Rémi Agier , Thibault Neveu

Supervised deep learning often suffers from the lack of sufficient training data. Specifically in the context of monocular depth map prediction, it is barely possible to determine dense ground truth depth images in realistic dynamic outdoor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-15 Yevhen Kuznietsov , Jörg Stückler , Bastian Leibe

Accurately detecting 3D objects from monocular images in dynamic roadside scenarios remains a challenging problem due to varying camera perspectives and unpredictable scene conditions. This paper introduces a two-stage training strategy to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Sondos Mohamed , Walter Zimmer , Ross Greer , Ahmed Alaaeldin Ghita , Modesto Castrillón-Santana , Mohan Trivedi , Alois Knoll , Salvatore Mario Carta , Mirko Marras

Depth estimation is an important task, applied in various methods and applications of computer vision. While the traditional methods of estimating depth are based on depth cues and require specific equipment such as stereo cameras and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Pulkit Vyas , Chirag Saxena , Anwesh Badapanda , Anurag Goswami

Scene flow estimation is an extremely important task in computer vision to support the perception of dynamic changes in the scene. For robust scene flow, learning-based approaches have recently achieved impressive results using either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Rajai Alhimdiat , Ramy Battrawy , René Schuster , Didier Stricker , Wesam Ashour

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

There have been attempts to detect 3D objects by fusion of stereo camera images and LiDAR sensor data or using LiDAR for pre-training and only monocular images for testing, but there have been less attempts to use only monocular image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Curie Kim , Ue-Hwan Kim , Jong-Hwan Kim

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

Change detection and irregular object extraction in 3D point clouds is a challenging task that is of high importance not only for autonomous navigation but also for updating existing digital twin models of various industrial environments.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Nikolaos Stathoulopoulos , Anton Koval , George Nikolakopoulos

LiDAR-produced point clouds are the major source for most state-of-the-art 3D object detectors. Yet, small, distant, and incomplete objects with sparse or few points are often hard to detect. We present Sparse2Dense, a new framework to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Tianyu Wang , Xiaowei Hu , Zhengzhe Liu , Chi-Wing Fu

Human performance capture is a highly important computer vision problem with many applications in movie production and virtual/augmented reality. Many previous performance capture approaches either required expensive multi-view setups or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Marc Habermann , Weipeng Xu , Michael Zollhoefer , Gerard Pons-Moll , Christian Theobalt

With the rapid advancement of technology, 3D data acquisition and utilization have become increasingly prevalent across various fields, including computer vision, robotics, and geospatial analysis. 3D data, captured through methods such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Siming Yan

Recently, great progress has been made in 3D deep learning with the emergence of deep neural networks specifically designed for 3D point clouds. These networks are often trained from scratch or from pre-trained models learned purely from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Bach Tran , Binh-Son Hua , Anh Tuan Tran , Minh Hoai