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We introduce dense vision transformers, an architecture that leverages vision transformers in place of convolutional networks as a backbone for dense prediction tasks. We assemble tokens from various stages of the vision transformer into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-26 René Ranftl , Alexey Bochkovskiy , Vladlen Koltun

The unsupervised depth estimation is the recent trend by utilizing the binocular stereo images to get rid of depth map ground truth. In unsupervised depth computation, the disparity images are generated by training the CNN with an image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-07 Vamshi Krishna Repala , Shiv Ram Dubey

Depth estimation from monocular images is a challenging problem in computer vision. In this paper, we tackle this problem using a novel network architecture using multi scale feature fusion. Our network uses two different blocks, first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Abhinav Sagar

Monocular depth estimation is very challenging because clues to the exact depth are incomplete in a single RGB image. To overcome the limitation, deep neural networks rely on various visual hints such as size, shade, and texture extracted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Kyuhong Shim , Jiyoung Kim , Gusang Lee , Byonghyo Shim

We challenge the common assumption that deeper decoder architectures always yield better performance in point cloud reconstruction. Our analysis reveals that, beyond a certain depth, increasing decoder complexity leads to overfitting and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Pedro Alonso , Tianrui Li , Chongshou Li

With the frequent use of self-supervised monocular depth estimation in robotics and autonomous driving, the model's efficiency is becoming increasingly important. Most current approaches apply much larger and more complex networks to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Wang Boya , Wang Shuo , Ye Dong , Dou Ziwen

We present GraphDepth, a monocular depth estimation architecture that synergistically integrates Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) within a convolutional encoder-decoder framework. Our approach embeds efficient GraphSAGE layers at multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Ishan Narayan

Depth map estimation from images is an important task in robotic systems. Existing methods can be categorized into two groups including multi-view stereo and monocular depth estimation. The former requires cameras to have large overlapping…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Jialei Xu , Xianming Liu , Yuanchao Bai , Junjun Jiang , Kaixuan Wang , Xiaozhi Chen , Xiangyang Ji

In this study, we address the challenge of 3D scene structure recovery from monocular depth estimation. While traditional depth estimation methods leverage labeled datasets to directly predict absolute depth, recent advancements advocate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Chi Zhang , Wei Yin , Gang Yu , Zhibin Wang , Tao Chen , Bin Fu , Joey Tianyi Zhou , Chunhua Shen

This paper addresses the task of designing a modular neural network architecture that jointly solves different tasks. As an example we use the tasks of depth estimation and semantic segmentation given a single RGB image. The main focus of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-27 Omid Hosseini Jafari , Oliver Groth , Alexander Kirillov , Michael Ying Yang , Carsten Rother

Monocular depth estimation plays a critical role in various computer vision and robotics applications such as localization, mapping, and 3D object detection. Recently, learning-based algorithms achieve huge success in depth estimation by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Dongseok Shim , H. Jin Kim

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have emerged as the state-of-the-art in multiple vision tasks including depth estimation. However, memory and computing power requirements remain as challenges to be tackled in these models. Monocular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Sara Elkerdawy , Hong Zhang , Nilanjan Ray

While the keypoint-based maps created by sparse monocular simultaneous localisation and mapping (SLAM) systems are useful for camera tracking, dense 3D reconstructions may be desired for many robotic tasks. Solutions involving depth cameras…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Tristan Laidlow , Jan Czarnowski , Stefan Leutenegger

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

This paper proposes a new residual convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture for single image depth estimation. Compared with existing deep CNN based methods, our method achieves much better results with fewer training examples and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-02 Bo Li , Yuchao Dai , Huahui Chen , Mingyi He

We present a simple yet effective general-purpose framework for modeling 3D shapes by leveraging recent advances in 2D image generation using CNNs. Using just a single depth image of the object, we can output a dense multi-view depth map…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Kamal Gupta , Susmija Jabbireddy , Ketul Shah , Abhinav Shrivastava , Matthias Zwicker

Monocular depth estimation (MDE) plays a pivotal role in various computer vision applications, such as robotics, augmented reality, and autonomous driving. Despite recent advancements, existing methods often fail to meet key requirements…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Andrii Litvynchuk , Ivan Livinsky , Anand Ravi , Nima Kalantari , Andrii Tsarov

This paper addresses the problem of estimating the depth map of a scene given a single RGB image. We propose a fully convolutional architecture, encompassing residual learning, to model the ambiguous mapping between monocular images and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-20 Iro Laina , Christian Rupprecht , Vasileios Belagiannis , Federico Tombari , Nassir Navab

Recent advances in end-to-end unsupervised learning has significantly improved the performance of monocular depth prediction and alleviated the requirement of ground truth depth. Although a plethora of work has been done in enforcing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Vinay Kaushik , Brejesh Lall

This paper addresses the problem of dense depth predictions from sparse distance sensor data and a single camera image on challenging weather conditions. This work explores the significance of different sensor modalities such as camera,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Sadique Adnan Siddiqui , Axel Vierling , Karsten Berns