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Purpose: Monocular depth estimation (MDE) is vital for scene understanding in minimally invasive surgery (MIS). However, endoscopic video sequences are often contaminated by smoke, specular reflections, blur, and occlusions, limiting the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Muhammad Asad , Emanuele Colleoni , Pritesh Mehta , Nicolas Toussaint , Ricardo Sanchez-Matilla , Maria Robu , Faisal Bashir , Rahim Mohammadi , Imanol Luengo , Danail Stoyanov

This work delves into unsupervised monocular depth estimation in endoscopy, which leverages adjacent frames to establish a supervisory signal during the training phase. For many clinical applications, e.g., surgical navigation, temporally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Shuwei Shao , Zhongcai Pei , Weihai Chen , Xingming Wu , Zhong Liu

Most existing algorithms for depth estimation from single monocular images need large quantities of metric groundtruth depths for supervised learning. We show that relative depth can be an informative cue for metric depth estimation and can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Yuanzhouhan Cao , Tianqi Zhao , Ke Xian , Chunhua Shen , Zhiguo Cao , Shugong Xu

Metric depth prediction from monocular videos suffers from bad generalization between datasets and requires supervised depth data for scale-correct training. Self-supervised training using multi-view reconstruction can benefit from large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Xiaohu Liu , Sascha Hornauer , Fabien Moutarde , Jialiang Lu

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

We present an unsupervised simultaneous learning framework for the task of monocular camera re-localization and depth estimation from unlabeled video sequences. Monocular camera re-localization refers to the task of estimating the absolute…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Shun Taguchi , Noriaki Hirose

Monocular depth estimation is vital for scene understanding and downstream tasks. We focus on the supervised setup, in which ground-truth depth is available only at training time. Based on knowledge about the high regularity of real 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Vaishakh Patil , Christos Sakaridis , Alexander Liniger , Luc Van Gool

Accurate stereo depth estimation plays a critical role in various 3D tasks in both indoor and outdoor environments. Recently, learning-based multi-view stereo methods have demonstrated competitive performance with a limited number of views.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Uday Kusupati , Shuo Cheng , Rui Chen , Hao Su

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

Spatial scene understanding, including monocular depth estimation, is an important problem in various applications, such as robotics and autonomous driving. While improvements in unsupervised monocular depth estimation have potentially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Hemang Chawla , Arnav Varma , Elahe Arani , Bahram Zonooz

Monocular visual odometry (VO) is an important task in robotics and computer vision. Thus far, how to build accurate and robust monocular VO systems that can work well in diverse scenarios remains largely unsolved. In this paper, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Libo Sun , Wei Yin , Enze Xie , Zhengrong Li , Changming Sun , Chunhua Shen

Depth estimation is a critical topic for robotics and vision-related tasks. In monocular depth estimation, in comparison with supervised learning that requires expensive ground truth labeling, self-supervised methods possess great potential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Jinchang Zhang , Praveen Kumar Reddy , Xue-Iuan Wong , Yiannis Aloimonos , Guoyu Lu

It is an exciting task to recover the scene's 3d-structure and camera pose from the video sequence. Most of the current solutions divide it into two parts, monocular depth recovery and camera pose estimation. The monocular depth recovery is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-24 YanTong Wu , Yang Liu

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

Monocular depth estimation is an important task with rapid progress, but how to evaluate it is not fully resolved, as evidenced by a lack of standardization in existing literature and a large selection of evaluation metrics whose trade-offs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Siyang Wu , Jack Nugent , Willow Yang , Jia Deng

Monocular Depth Estimation (MDE) enables spatial understanding, 3D reconstruction, and autonomous navigation, yet deep learning approaches often predict only relative depth without a consistent metric scale. This limitation reduces…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Jiuling Zhang

Over the past few years, monocular depth estimation and completion have been paid more and more attention from the computer vision community because of their widespread applications. In this paper, we introduce novel physics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Shuwei Shao , Zhongcai Pei , Weihai Chen , Peter C. Y. Chen , Zhengguo Li

Unsupervised learning of depth and ego-motion from unlabelled monocular videos has recently drawn great attention, which avoids the use of expensive ground truth in the supervised one. It achieves this by using the photometric errors…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-23 Hualie Jiang , Laiyan Ding , Zhenglong Sun , Rui Huang

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

Monocular depth and pose estimation play an important role in the development of colonoscopy-assisted navigation, as they enable improved screening by reducing blind spots, minimizing the risk of missed or recurrent lesions, and lowering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Xinwei Ju , Rema Daher , Danail Stoyanov , Sophia Bano , Francisco Vasconcelos