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Monocular depth estimation has drawn widespread attention from the vision community due to its broad applications. In this paper, we propose a novel physics (geometry)-driven deep learning framework for monocular depth estimation by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Shuwei Shao , Zhongcai Pei , Weihai Chen , Xingming Wu , Zhengguo Li

Depth estimation from a single image represents a very exciting challenge in computer vision. While other image-based depth sensing techniques leverage on the geometry between different viewpoints (e.g., stereo or structure from motion),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-29 Pierluigi Zama Ramirez , Matteo Poggi , Fabio Tosi , Stefano Mattoccia , Luigi Di Stefano

As an agent moves through the world, the apparent motion of scene elements is (usually) inversely proportional to their depth. It is natural for a learning agent to associate image patterns with the magnitude of their displacement over…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Huaizu Jiang , Erik Learned-Miller , Gustav Larsson , Michael Maire , Greg Shakhnarovich

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

Monocular 3D object detection (Mono3D) aims to infer object locations and dimensions in 3D space from a single RGB image. Despite recent progress, existing methods remain highly sensitive to camera intrinsics and struggle to generalize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Zhihao Zhang , Abhinav Kumar , Xiaoming Liu

Most existing methods for depth estimation from a focal stack of images employ convolutional neural networks (CNNs) using 2D or 3D convolutions over a fixed set of images. However, their effectiveness is constrained by the local properties…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Xueyang Kang , Fengze Han , Abdur R. Fayjie , Patrick Vandewalle , Kourosh Khoshelham , Dong Gong

Depth estimation is a fundamental task in 3D computer vision, crucial for applications such as 3D reconstruction, free-viewpoint rendering, robotics, autonomous driving, and AR/VR technologies. Traditional methods relying on hardware…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Zhen Xu , Hongyu Zhou , Sida Peng , Haotong Lin , Haoyu Guo , Jiahao Shao , Peishan Yang , Qinglin Yang , Sheng Miao , Xingyi He , Yifan Wang , Yue Wang , Ruizhen Hu , Yiyi Liao , Xiaowei Zhou , Hujun Bao

Existing self-supervised monocular depth estimation methods can get rid of expensive annotations and achieve promising results. However, these methods suffer from severe performance degradation when directly adopting a model trained on a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Mu He , Le Hui , Yikai Bian , Jian Ren , Jin Xie , Jian Yang

Monocular visual odometry consists of the estimation of the position of an agent through images of a single camera, and it is applied in autonomous vehicles, medical robots, and augmented reality. However, monocular systems suffer from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-09 André O. Françani , Marcos R. O. A. Maximo

Depth estimation is a crucial step for image-guided intervention in robotic surgery and laparoscopic imaging system. Since per-pixel depth ground truth is difficult to acquire for laparoscopic image data, it is rarely possible to apply…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Baoru Huang , Jian-Qing Zheng , Anh Nguyen , Chi Xu , Ioannis Gkouzionis , Kunal Vyas , David Tuch , Stamatia Giannarou , Daniel S. Elson

Depth estimation in surgical video plays a crucial role in many image-guided surgery procedures. However, it is difficult and time consuming to create depth map ground truth datasets in surgical videos due in part to inconsistent brightness…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Ange Lou , Jack Noble

Depth information is important for autonomous systems to perceive environments and estimate their own state. Traditional depth estimation methods, like structure from motion and stereo vision matching, are built on feature correspondences…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-06 Chaoqiang Zhao , Qiyu Sun , Chongzhen Zhang , Yang Tang , Feng Qian

Monocular depth estimation (MDE) with self-supervised training approaches struggles in low-texture areas, where photometric losses may lead to ambiguous depth predictions. To address this, we propose a novel technique that enhances spatial…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-14 Marwane Hariat , Antoine Manzanera , David Filliat

Self-supervised monocular depth estimation networks are trained to predict scene depth using nearby frames as a supervision signal during training. However, for many applications, sequence information in the form of video frames is also…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Jamie Watson , Oisin Mac Aodha , Victor Prisacariu , Gabriel Brostow , Michael Firman

Transformers are popular neural network models that use layers of self-attention and fully-connected nodes with embedded tokens. Vision Transformers (ViT) adapt transformers for image recognition tasks. In order to do this, the images are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Brian Kenji Iwana , Akihiro Kusuda

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

Learning single image depth estimation model from monocular video sequence is a very challenging problem. In this paper, we propose a novel training loss which enables us to include more images for supervision during the training process.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Zhenwei Luo

Monocular depth estimation (MDE) has widely applicable but remains highly challenging due to the inherently ill-posed nature of reconstructing 3D scenes from single 2D images. Modern Vision Foundation Models (VFMs), pre-trained on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Gongshu Wang , Zhirui Wang , Kan Yang

Estimating the 3D position and orientation of objects in the environment with a single RGB camera is a critical and challenging task for low-cost urban autonomous driving and mobile robots. Most of the existing algorithms are based on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Yuxuan Liu , Yuan Yixuan , Ming Liu

Unsupervised monocular depth estimation has received widespread attention because of its capability to train without ground truth. In real-world scenarios, the images may be blurry or noisy due to the influence of weather conditions and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Runze Liu , Dongchen Zhu , Guanghui Zhang , Yue Xu , Wenjun Shi , Xiaolin Zhang , Lei Wang , Jiamao Li