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Monocular depth estimation (MDE) is inherently ambiguous, as a given image may result from many different 3D scenes and vice versa. To resolve this ambiguity, an MDE system must make assumptions about the most likely 3D scenes for a given…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Dylan Auty , Krystian Mikolajczyk

Monocular depth estimation is a critical function in computer vision applications. This paper shows that large language models (LLMs) can effectively interpret depth with minimal supervision, using efficient resource utilization and a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Zhongyi Xia , Tianzhao Wu

Besides image classification, Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) has accomplished extraordinary success for a wide range of vision tasks, including object-level and 3D space understanding. However, it's still challenging to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Renrui Zhang , Ziyao Zeng , Ziyu Guo , Yafeng Li

360{\deg} cameras can capture complete environments in a single shot, which makes 360{\deg} imagery alluring in many computer vision tasks. However, monocular depth estimation remains a challenge for 360{\deg} data, particularly for high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Manuel Rey-Area , Mingze Yuan , Christian Richardt

Accurate real depth annotations are difficult to acquire, needing the use of special devices such as a LiDAR sensor. Self-supervised methods try to overcome this problem by processing video or stereo sequences, which may not always be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Adrian Lopez-Rodriguez , Krystian Mikolajczyk

In this work we study the mutual benefits of two common computer vision tasks, self-supervised depth estimation and semantic segmentation from images. For example, to help unsupervised monocular depth estimation, constraints from semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Shengjie Zhu , Garrick Brazil , Xiaoming Liu

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

We present a novel method to train machine learning algorithms to estimate scene depths from a single image, by using the information provided by a camera's aperture as supervision. Prior works use a depth sensor's outputs or images of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-30 Pratul P. Srinivasan , Rahul Garg , Neal Wadhwa , Ren Ng , Jonathan T. Barron

Recovering the scene depth from a single image is an ill-posed problem that requires additional priors, often referred to as monocular depth cues, to disambiguate different 3D interpretations. In recent works, those priors have been learned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Lam Huynh , Phong Nguyen-Ha , Jiri Matas , Esa Rahtu , Janne Heikkila

Estimating depth from a monocular image is an ill-posed problem: when the camera projects a 3D scene onto a 2D plane, depth information is inherently and permanently lost. Nevertheless, recent work has shown impressive results in estimating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Jagpreet Chawla , Nikhil Thakurdesai , Anuj Godase , Md Reza , David Crandall , Soon-Heung Jung

Monocular depth estimation aims at estimating a pixelwise depth map for a single image, which has wide applications in scene understanding and autonomous driving. Existing supervised and unsupervised methods face great challenges.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-21 Xiaoyang Guo , Hongsheng Li , Shuai Yi , Jimmy Ren , Xiaogang Wang

Accurate depth estimation from images is a fundamental task in many applications including scene understanding and reconstruction. Existing solutions for depth estimation often produce blurry approximations of low resolution. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Ibraheem Alhashim , Peter Wonka

Depth estimation is a core problem in robotic perception and vision tasks, but 3D reconstruction from a single image presents inherent uncertainties. Current depth estimation models primarily rely on inter-image relationships for supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Jinchang Zhang , Guoyu Lu

Monocular depth estimation is scale-ambiguous, and thus requires scale supervision to produce metric predictions. Even so, the resulting models will be geometry-specific, with learned scales that cannot be directly transferred across…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Vitor Guizilini , Igor Vasiljevic , Dian Chen , Rares Ambrus , Adrien Gaidon

Beyond depth estimation from a single image, the monocular cue is useful in a broader range of depth inference applications and settings---such as when one can leverage other available depth cues for improved accuracy. Currently, different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-11 Zhihao Xia , Patrick Sullivan , Ayan Chakrabarti

Depth estimation from a single image is an active research topic in computer vision. The most accurate approaches are based on fully supervised learning models, which rely on a large amount of dense and high-resolution (HR) ground-truth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Jialei Xu , Yuanchao Bai , Xianming Liu , Junjun Jiang , Xiangyang Ji

Monocular depth estimation is a fundamental computer vision task. Recovering 3D depth from a single image is geometrically ill-posed and requires scene understanding, so it is not surprising that the rise of deep learning has led to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Bingxin Ke , Anton Obukhov , Shengyu Huang , Nando Metzger , Rodrigo Caye Daudt , Konrad Schindler

A key contributor to recent progress in 3D detection from single images is monocular depth estimation. Existing methods focus on how to leverage depth explicitly, by generating pseudo-pointclouds or providing attention cues for image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Dennis Park , Jie Li , Dian Chen , Vitor Guizilini , Adrien Gaidon

Current methods for depth map prediction from monocular images tend to predict smooth, poorly localized contours for the occlusion boundaries in the input image. This is unfortunate as occlusion boundaries are important cues to recognize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Michael Ramamonjisoa , Yuming Du , Vincent Lepetit

The ability to accurately estimate depth information is crucial for many autonomous applications to recognize the surrounded environment and predict the depth of important objects. One of the most recently used techniques is monocular depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Ahmed Zaitoon , Hossam El Din Abd El Munim , Hazem Abbas