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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

Depth map enhancement using paired high-resolution RGB images offers a cost-effective solution for improving low-resolution depth data from lightweight ToF sensors. Nevertheless, naively adopting a depth estimation pipeline to fuse the two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Laiyan Ding , Hualie Jiang , Jiwei Chen , Rui Huang

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

Image compression is a widely used technique to reduce the spatial redundancy in images. Recently, learning based image compression has achieved significant progress by using the powerful representation ability from neural networks.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-26 Jiaheng Liu , Guo Lu , Zhihao Hu , Dong Xu

Self-supervised monocular depth estimation methods have been increasingly given much attention due to the benefit of not requiring large, labelled datasets. Such self-supervised methods require high-quality salient features and consequently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Xiaotong Guo , Huijie Zhao , Shuwei Shao , Xudong Li , Baochang Zhang

We propose a novel algorithm for monocular depth estimation that decomposes a metric depth map into a normalized depth map and scale features. The proposed network is composed of a shared encoder and three decoders, called G-Net, N-Net, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Jinyoung Jun , Jae-Han Lee , Chul Lee , Chang-Su Kim

In this paper, we explore the possibility of achieving a more accurate depth estimation by fusing monocular images and Radar points using a deep neural network. We give a comprehensive study of the fusion between RGB images and Radar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-02 Juan-Ting Lin , Dengxin Dai , Luc Van Gool

While learning based depth estimation from images/videos has achieved substantial progress, there still exist intrinsic limitations. Supervised methods are limited by a small amount of ground truth or labeled data and unsupervised methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-24 Haofei Xu , Jianmin Zheng , Jianfei Cai , Juyong Zhang

We introduce a novel framework for metric depth estimation that enhances pretrained diffusion-based monocular depth estimation (DB-MDE) models with stereo vision guidance. While existing DB-MDE methods excel at predicting relative depth,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Tuan Pham , Thanh-Tung Le , Xiaohui Xie , Stephan Mandt

Accurate depth estimation is fundamental to 3D perception in autonomous driving, supporting tasks such as detection, tracking, and motion planning. However, monocular camera-based 3D detection suffers from depth ambiguity and reduced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Chen-Chou Lo , Patrick Vandewalle

Unsupervised depth completion and estimation methods are trained by minimizing reconstruction error. Block artifacts from resampling, intensity saturation, and occlusions are amongst the many undesirable by-products of common data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Yangchao Wu , Tian Yu Liu , Hyoungseob Park , Stefano Soatto , Dong Lao , Alex Wong

This work presents a novel approach for monocular dense Simultaneous Localization and Mapping. The surface to be estimated is represented as a piecewise planar surface, defined as a group of surfels each having as parameters its position…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-17 Emanuel Trabes , Julio Daniel Dondo Gazzano , Carlos Federico Sosa Páez

Semantic segmentation architectures are mainly built upon an encoder-decoder structure. These models perform subsequent downsampling operations in the encoder. Since operations on high-resolution activation maps are computationally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-20 Davide Mazzini

Monocular depth estimation is often described as an ill-posed and inherently ambiguous problem. Estimating depth from 2D images is a crucial step in scene reconstruction, 3Dobject recognition, segmentation, and detection. The problem can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Amlaan Bhoi

Self-supervised learning shows great potential in monoculardepth estimation, using image sequences as the only source ofsupervision. Although people try to use the high-resolutionimage for depth estimation, the accuracy of prediction hasnot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Xiaoyang Lyu , Liang Liu , Mengmeng Wang , Xin Kong , Lina Liu , Yong Liu , Xinxin Chen , Yi Yuan

Depth estimation plays a crucial role in 3D scene understanding and is extensively used in a wide range of vision tasks. Image-based methods struggle in challenging scenarios, while event cameras offer high dynamic range and temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Luoxi Jing , Dianxi Shi , Zhe Liu , Songchang Jin , Chunping Qiu , Ziteng Qiao , Yuxian Li , Jianqiang Xia

Multi-frame depth estimation improves over single-frame approaches by also leveraging geometric relationships between images via feature matching, in addition to learning appearance-based features. In this paper we revisit feature matching…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Vitor Guizilini , Rares Ambrus , Dian Chen , Sergey Zakharov , Adrien Gaidon

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

Geometry Projection is a powerful depth estimation method in monocular 3D object detection. It estimates depth dependent on heights, which introduces mathematical priors into the deep model. But projection process also introduces the error…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-16 Yan Lu , Xinzhu Ma , Lei Yang , Tianzhu Zhang , Yating Liu , Qi Chu , Junjie Yan , Wanli Ouyang

Defocus Blur Detection(DBD) aims to separate in-focus and out-of-focus regions from a single image pixel-wisely. This task has been paid much attention since bokeh effects are widely used in digital cameras and smartphone photography.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Xiaodong Cun , Chi-Man Pun