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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

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 from single monocular images is a key component of scene understanding and has benefited largely from deep convolutional neural networks (CNN) recently. In this article, we take advantage of the recent deep residual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-14 Yuanzhouhan Cao , Zifeng Wu , Chunhua Shen

Accurate depth estimation is at the core of many applications in computer graphics, vision, and robotics. Current state-of-the-art monocular depth estimators, trained on extensive datasets, generalize well but lack 3D consistency needed for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Laura Fink , Linus Franke , Bernhard Egger , Joachim Keinert , Marc Stamminger

Dense depth estimation from a single image is a key problem in computer vision, with exciting applications in a multitude of robotic tasks. Initially viewed as a direct regression problem, requiring annotated labels as supervision at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Vitor Guizilini , Jie Li , Rares Ambrus , Sudeep Pillai , Adrien Gaidon

In the recent years, many methods demonstrated the ability of neural networks to learn depth and pose changes in a sequence of images, using only self-supervision as the training signal. Whilst the networks achieve good performance, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Robert McCraith , Lukas Neumann , Andrea Vedaldi

Monocular depth estimation is a challenging task in complex compositions depicting multiple objects of diverse scales. Albeit the recent great progress thanks to the deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs), the state-of-the-art monocular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-09 Bo Li , Yuchao Dai , Mingyi He

Despite significant progress made in the past few years, challenges remain for depth estimation using a single monocular image. First, it is nontrivial to train a metric-depth prediction model that can generalize well to diverse scenes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Wei Yin , Jianming Zhang , Oliver Wang , Simon Niklaus , Simon Chen , Yifan Liu , Chunhua Shen

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

A single color image can contain many cues informative towards different aspects of local geometric structure. We approach the problem of monocular depth estimation by using a neural network to produce a mid-level representation that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-08 Ayan Chakrabarti , Jingyu Shao , Gregory Shakhnarovich

Despite significant progress in monocular depth estimation in the wild, recent state-of-the-art methods cannot be used to recover accurate 3D scene shape due to an unknown depth shift induced by shift-invariant reconstruction losses used in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Wei Yin , Jianming Zhang , Oliver Wang , Simon Niklaus , Long Mai , Simon Chen , Chunhua Shen

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 known as an ill-posed task in which objects in a 2D image usually do not contain sufficient information to predict their depth. Thus, it acts differently from other tasks (e.g., classification and segmentation)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Wencheng Han , Junbo Yin , Jianbing Shen

As processing power has become more available, more human-like artificial intelligences are created to solve image processing tasks that we are inherently good at. As such we propose a model that estimates depth from a monocular image. Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Fabian Truetsch , Alfred Schöttl

In monocular depth estimation, disturbances in the image context, like moving objects or reflecting materials, can easily lead to erroneous predictions. For that reason, uncertainty estimates for each pixel are necessary, in particular for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Julia Hornauer , Vasileios Belagiannis

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

With the rapid advancements in autonomous driving and robot navigation, there is a growing demand for lifelong learning models capable of estimating metric (absolute) depth. Lifelong learning approaches potentially offer significant cost…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Junjie Hu , Chenyou Fan , Liguang Zhou , Qing Gao , Honghai Liu , Tin Lun Lam

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

Depth estimation is of critical interest for scene understanding and accurate 3D reconstruction. Most recent approaches in depth estimation with deep learning exploit geometrical structures of standard sharp images to predict corresponding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-07 Marcela Carvalho , Bertrand Le Saux , Pauline Trouvé-Peloux , Andrés Almansa , Frédéric Champagnat

Monocular depth estimation is an ill-posed problem as the same 2D image can be projected from infinite 3D scenes. Although the leading algorithms in this field have reported significant improvement, they are essentially geared to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Xiaodong Yang , Zhuang Ma , Zhiyu Ji , Zhe Ren