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Monocular depth estimation (MDE) has witnessed remarkable progress driven by Convolutional Neural Networks and transformer-based architectures. However, these approaches typically treat the problem as a generic image-to-image regression on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Qianlei Wang , Kexun Chen , Shaolin Zhang , Hongli Gao , Chaoning Zhang , Xiaolin Qin

Depth estimation attracts widespread attention in the computer vision community. However, it is still quite difficult to recover an accurate depth map using only one RGB image. We observe a phenomenon that existing methods tend to fail in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Shuwei Shao , Ran Li , Zhongcai Pei , Zhong Liu , Weihai Chen , Wentao Zhu , Xingming Wu , Baochang Zhang

Learning-based monocular depth estimation leverages geometric priors present in the training data to enable metric depth perception from a single image, a traditionally ill-posed problem. However, these priors are often specific to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Karlo Koledić , Luka Petrović , Ivan Petrović , Ivan Marković

Learning based methods have shown very promising results for the task of depth estimation in single images. However, most existing approaches treat depth prediction as a supervised regression problem and as a result, require vast quantities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-14 Clément Godard , Oisin Mac Aodha , Gabriel J. Brostow

We propose a method for metric-scale monocular depth estimation. Inferring depth from a single image is an ill-posed problem due to the loss of scale from perspective projection during the image formation process. Any scale chosen is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Ziyao Zeng , Yangchao Wu , Hyoungseob Park , Daniel Wang , Fengyu Yang , Stefano Soatto , Dong Lao , Byung-Woo Hong , Alex Wong

Monocular Depth Estimation (MDE) is a fundamental computer vision task with important applications in 3D vision. The current mainstream MDE methods employ an encoder-decoder architecture with multi-level/scale feature processing. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Huibin Bai , Shuai Li , Hanxiao Zhai , Yanbo Gao , Chong Lv , Yibo Wang , Haipeng Ping , Wei Hua , Xingyu Gao

Monocular depth estimation has been widely studied, and significant improvements in performance have been recently reported. However, most previous works are evaluated on a few benchmark datasets, such as KITTI datasets, and none of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Jinwoo Bae , Kyumin Hwang , Sunghoon Im

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

In this work, we address the problem of real-time dense depth estimation from monocular images for mobile underwater vehicles. We formulate a deep learning model that fuses sparse depth measurements from triangulated features to improve the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Luca Ebner , Gideon Billings , Stefan Williams

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) need large amounts of data with ground truth annotation, which is a challenging problem that has limited the development and fast deployment of CNNs for many computer vision tasks. We propose a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-16 Long Chen , Wen Tang , Nigel John

Monocular depth estimation is an especially important task in robotics and autonomous driving, where 3D structural information is essential. However, extreme lighting conditions and complex surface objects make it difficult to predict depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Minhyeok Lee , Sangwon Hwang , Chaewon Park , Sangyoun Lee

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

Classical monocular Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM) and the recently emerging convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for monocular depth prediction represent two largely disjoint approaches towards building a 3D map of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Lokender Tiwari , Pan Ji , Quoc-Huy Tran , Bingbing Zhuang , Saket Anand , Manmohan Chandraker

Depth estimation provides essential information to perform autonomous driving and driver assistance. Especially, Monocular Depth Estimation is interesting from a practical point of view, since using a single camera is cheaper than many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Akhil Gurram , Onay Urfalioglu , Ibrahim Halfaoui , Fahd Bouzaraa , Antonio M. Lopez

Per-pixel ground-truth depth data is challenging to acquire at scale. To overcome this limitation, self-supervised learning has emerged as a promising alternative for training models to perform monocular depth estimation. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Clément Godard , Oisin Mac Aodha , Michael Firman , Gabriel Brostow

Multi-frame methods improve monocular depth estimation over single-frame approaches by aggregating spatial-temporal information via feature matching. However, the spatial-temporal feature leads to accuracy degradation in dynamic scenes. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Jiquan Zhong , Xiaolin Huang , Xiao Yu

Monocular depth estimation from a single image is an ill-posed problem for computer vision due to insufficient reliable cues as the prior knowledge. Besides the inter-frame supervision, namely stereo and adjacent frames, extensive prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Zhengyang Lu , Ying Chen

Monocular depth estimation is one of the fundamental tasks in environmental perception and has achieved tremendous progress in virtue of deep learning. However, the performance of trained models tends to degrade or deteriorate when employed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Qiyu Sun , Gary G. Yen , Yang Tang , Chaoqiang Zhao

Self-supervised learning for monocular depth estimation is widely investigated as an alternative to supervised learning approach, that requires a lot of ground truths. Previous works have successfully improved the accuracy of depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Noriaki Hirose , Shun Taguchi , Keisuke Kawano , Satoshi Koide

Self-supervised monocular depth estimation methods aim to be used in critical applications such as autonomous vehicles for environment analysis. To circumvent the potential imperfections of these approaches, a quantification of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Rémi Marsal , Florian Chabot , Angelique Loesch , William Grolleau , Hichem Sahbi