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Most learning-based methods estimate ego-motion by utilizing visual sensors, which suffer from dramatic lighting variations and textureless scenarios. In this paper, we incorporate sparse but accurate depth measurements obtained from lidars…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-06 Bin Li , Mu Hu , Shuling Wang , Lianghao Wang , Xiaojin Gong

We present a self-supervised approach to training convolutional neural networks for dense depth estimation from monocular endoscopy data without a priori modeling of anatomy or shading. Our method only requires sequential data from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Xingtong Liu , Ayushi Sinha , Mathias Unberath , Masaru Ishii , Gregory Hager , Russell H. Taylor , Austin Reiter

In this paper, we propose an end-to-end deep learning network named 3dDepthNet, which produces an accurate dense depth image from a single pair of sparse LiDAR depth and color image for robotics and autonomous driving tasks. Based on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-23 Rui Xiang , Feng Zheng , Huapeng Su , Zhe Zhang

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

3D object detection and dense depth estimation are one of the most vital tasks in autonomous driving. Multiple sensor modalities can jointly attribute towards better robot perception, and to that end, we introduce a method for jointly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Shubham Shrivastava

This work proposes a method for depth completion of sparse LiDAR data using a convolutional neural network which can be used to generate semi-dense depth maps and "almost" full 3D point-clouds with significantly lower root mean squared…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-23 Hamid Hekmatian , Jingfu Jin , Samir Al-Stouhi

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

Due to difficulties in acquiring ground truth depth of equirectangular (360) images, the quality and quantity of equirectangular depth data today is insufficient to represent the various scenes in the world. Therefore, 360 depth estimation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Ilwi Yun , Hyuk-Jae Lee , Chae Eun Rhee

Estimating depth from a single image represents an attractive alternative to more traditional approaches leveraging multiple cameras. In this field, deep learning yielded outstanding results at the cost of needing large amounts of data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Lorenzo Andraghetti , Panteleimon Myriokefalitakis , Pier Luigi Dovesi , Belen Luque , Matteo Poggi , Alessandro Pieropan , Stefano Mattoccia

Monocular simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) algorithms estimate drone poses and build a 3D map using a single camera. Current algorithms include sparse methods that lack detailed geometry, while learning-driven approaches produce…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Jeryes Danial , Yosi Ben Asher , Itzik Klein

Real-time monocular 3D object detection remains challenging due to severe depth ambiguity, viewpoint shifts, and the high computational cost of 3D reasoning. Existing approaches either rely on LiDAR or geometric priors to compensate for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Johannes Meier , Jonathan Michel , Oussema Dhaouadi , Yung-Hsu Yang , Christoph Reich , Zuria Bauer , Stefan Roth , Marc Pollefeys , Jacques Kaiser , Daniel Cremers

This paper introduces a novel self-supervised learning framework for enhancing 3D perception in autonomous driving scenes. Specifically, our approach, namely NCLR, focuses on 2D-3D neural calibration, a novel pretext task that estimates the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Yifan Zhang , Junhui Hou , Siyu Ren , Jinjian Wu , Yixuan Yuan , Guangming Shi

Unsupervised methods have showed promising results on monocular depth estimation. However, the training data must be captured in scenes without moving objects. To push the envelope of accuracy, recent methods tend to increase their model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Tak-Wai Hui

Monocular depth estimation (MDE) has been widely adopted in the perception systems of autonomous vehicles and mobile robots. However, existing approaches often struggle to maintain temporal consistency in depth estimation across consecutive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Leezy Han , Seunggyu Kim , Dongseok Shim , Hyeonbeom Lee

Monocular 3D object detection is an essential perception task for autonomous driving. However, the high reliance on large-scale labeled data make it costly and time-consuming during model optimization. To reduce such over-reliance on human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Lei Yang , Xinyu Zhang , Li Wang , Minghan Zhu , Chuang Zhang , Jun Li

Self-supervised monocular depth estimation (SSMDE) aims to predict the dense depth map of a monocular image, by learning depth from RGB image sequences, eliminating the need for ground-truth depth labels. Although this approach simplifies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Wonhyeok Choi , Kyumin Hwang , Wei Peng , Minwoo Choi , Sunghoon Im

In this paper, we propose a deep learning architecture that produces accurate dense depth for the outdoor scene from a single color image and a sparse depth. Inspired by the indoor depth completion, our network estimates surface normals as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Jiaxiong Qiu , Zhaopeng Cui , Yinda Zhang , Xingdi Zhang , Shuaicheng Liu , Bing Zeng , Marc Pollefeys

Solving depth estimation with monocular cameras enables the possibility of widespread use of cameras as low-cost depth estimation sensors in applications such as autonomous driving and robotics. However, learning such a scalable depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Bin Cheng , Inderjot Singh Saggu , Raunak Shah , Gaurav Bansal , Dinesh Bharadia

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

We propose SUB-Depth, a universal multi-task training framework for self-supervised monocular depth estimation (SDE). Depth models trained with SUB-Depth outperform the same models trained in a standard single-task SDE framework. By…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Hang Zhou , Sarah Taylor , David Greenwood , Michal Mackiewicz