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We introduce a learning-based depth map fusion framework that accepts a set of depth and confidence maps generated by a Multi-View Stereo (MVS) algorithm as input and improves them. This is accomplished by integrating volumetric visibility…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Nathaniel Burgdorfer , Philippos Mordohai

Although multi-view unsupervised feature selection (MUFS) is an effective technology for reducing dimensionality in machine learning, existing methods cannot directly deal with incomplete multi-view data where some samples are missing in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Yanyong Huang , Zongxin Shen , Tianrui Li , Fengmao Lv

We propose a learning-based network for depth map estimation from multi-view stereo (MVS) images. Our proposed network consists of three sub-networks: 1) a base network for initial depth map estimation from an unstructured stereo image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Sizhang Dai , Weibing Huang

Multi-view Stereo (MVS) aims to estimate depth and reconstruct 3D point clouds from a series of overlapping images. Recent learning-based MVS frameworks overlook the geometric information embedded in features and correlations, leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Yuxi Hu , Jun Zhang , Zhe Zhang , Rafael Weilharter , Yuchen Rao , Kuangyi Chen , Runze Yuan , Friedrich Fraundorfer

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

Masked image modeling has demonstrated great potential to eliminate the label-hungry problem of training large-scale vision Transformers, achieving impressive performance on various downstream tasks. In this work, we propose a unified view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Zhiliang Peng , Li Dong , Hangbo Bao , Qixiang Ye , Furu Wei

Accurate volume estimation of objects from visual data is a long-standing challenge in computer vision with significant applications in robotics, logistics, and smart health. Existing methods often rely on complex 3D reconstruction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Gautham Vinod , Bruce Coburn , Siddeshwar Raghavan , Fengqing Zhu

In classical computer vision, rectification is an integral part of multi-view depth estimation. It typically includes epipolar rectification and lens distortion correction. This process simplifies the depth estimation significantly, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Varun Ravi Kumar , Senthil Yogamani , Markus Bach , Christian Witt , Stefan Milz , Patrick Mader

Recent cost volume pyramid based deep neural networks have unlocked the potential of efficiently leveraging high-resolution images for depth inference from multi-view stereo. In general, those approaches assume that the depth of each pixel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Jiayu Yang , Jose M. Alvarez , Miaomiao Liu

Although deep neural networks have been widely applied to computer vision problems, extending them into multiview depth estimation is non-trivial. In this paper, we present MVDepthNet, a convolutional network to solve the depth estimation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Kaixuan Wang , Shaojie Shen

Depth estimation under adverse conditions remains a significant challenge. Recently, multi-spectral depth estimation, which integrates both visible light and thermal images, has shown promise in addressing this issue. However, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Zihan Qin , Jialei Xu , Wenbo Zhao , Junjun Jiang , Xianming Liu

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

Current unified multimodal models typically rely on discrete visual tokenizers to bridge the modality gap. However, discretization inevitably discards fine-grained semantic information, leading to suboptimal performance in visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Yaqi Zhao , Wang Lin , Zijian Zhang , Miles Yang , Jingyuan Chen , Wentao Zhang , Zhao Zhong , Liefeng Bo

Learning-based Multi-View Stereo (MVS) methods aim to predict depth maps for a sequence of calibrated images to recover dense point clouds. However, existing MVS methods often struggle with challenging regions, such as textureless regions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Jianfei Jiang , Qiankun Liu , Haochen Yu , Hongyuan Liu , Liyong Wang , Jiansheng Chen , Huimin Ma

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

Self-supervised learning for depth estimation possesses several advantages over supervised learning. The benefits of no need for ground-truth depth, online fine-tuning, and better generalization with unlimited data attract researchers to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Weihao Yuan , Yazhan Zhang , Bingkun Wu , Siyu Zhu , Ping Tan , Michael Yu Wang , Qifeng Chen

This paper introduces a novel deep framework for dense 3D reconstruction from multiple image frames, leveraging a sparse set of depth measurements gathered jointly with image acquisition. Given a deep multi-view stereo network, our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Matteo Poggi , Andrea Conti , Stefano Mattoccia

Unsupervised Multi-View Stereo (MVS) methods have achieved promising progress recently. However, previous methods primarily depend on the photometric consistency assumption, which may suffer from two limitations: indistinguishable regions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Kaiqiang Xiong , Rui Peng , Zhe Zhang , Tianxing Feng , Jianbo Jiao , Feng Gao , Ronggang Wang

Multi-view Stereo (MVS) with known camera parameters is essentially a 1D search problem within a valid depth range. Recent deep learning-based MVS methods typically densely sample depth hypotheses in the depth range, and then construct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Zhenxing Mi , Di Chang , Dan Xu

Accurate monocular metric depth estimation (MMDE) is crucial to solving downstream tasks in 3D perception and modeling. However, the remarkable accuracy of recent MMDE methods is confined to their training domains. These methods fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Luigi Piccinelli , Yung-Hsu Yang , Christos Sakaridis , Mattia Segu , Siyuan Li , Luc Van Gool , Fisher Yu