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Transparent object perception is indispensable for numerous robotic tasks. However, accurately segmenting and estimating the depth of transparent objects remain challenging due to complex optical properties. Existing methods primarily delve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Jiangyuan Liu , Hongxuan Ma , Yuxin Guo , Yuhao Zhao , Chi Zhang , Wei Sui , Wei Zou

Monocular Depth Estimation (MDE) enables spatial understanding, 3D reconstruction, and autonomous navigation, yet deep learning approaches often predict only relative depth without a consistent metric scale. This limitation reduces…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Jiuling Zhang

Depth information is the foundation of perception, essential for autonomous driving, robotics, and other source-constrained applications. Promptly obtaining accurate and efficient depth information allows for a rapid response in dynamic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Xin Zhang , Rabab Abdelfattah , Yuqi Song , Samuel A. Dauchert , Xiaofeng wang

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 is a vital piece of information for autonomous vehicles to perceive obstacles. Due to the relatively low price and small size of monocular cameras, depth estimation from a single RGB image has attracted great interest in the research…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Xingshuai Dong , Matthew A. Garratt , Sreenatha G. Anavatti , Hussein A. Abbass

We present an algorithm for estimating consistent dense depth maps and camera poses from a monocular video. We integrate a learning-based depth prior, in the form of a convolutional neural network trained for single-image depth estimation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Johannes Kopf , Xuejian Rong , Jia-Bin Huang

The astounding performance of transformers in natural language processing (NLP) has motivated researchers to explore their applications in computer vision tasks. DEtection TRansformer (DETR) introduces transformers to object detection tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Tahira Shehzadi , Khurram Azeem Hashmi , Didier Stricker , Muhammad Zeshan Afzal

Self-supervised monocular depth estimation is of significant importance with applications spanning across autonomous driving and robotics. However, the reliance on self-supervision introduces a strong static-scene assumption, thereby posing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Yue-Jiang Dong , Yuan-Chen Guo , Ying-Tian Liu , Fang-Lue Zhang , Song-Hai Zhang

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 (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

DEtection TRansformer (DETR) started a trend that uses a group of learnable queries for unified visual perception. This work begins by applying this appealing paradigm to LiDAR-based point cloud segmentation and obtains a simple yet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Zeqi Xiao , Wenwei Zhang , Tai Wang , Chen Change Loy , Dahua Lin , Jiangmiao Pang

DETR has been recently proposed to eliminate the need for many hand-designed components in object detection while demonstrating good performance. However, it suffers from slow convergence and limited feature spatial resolution, due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Xizhou Zhu , Weijie Su , Lewei Lu , Bin Li , Xiaogang Wang , Jifeng Dai

Monocular depth estimation aims to recover the depth information of 3D scenes from 2D images. Recent work has made significant progress, but its reliance on large-scale datasets and complex decoders has limited its efficiency and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Zeyu Ren , Zeyu Zhang , Wukai Li , Qingxiang Liu , Hao Tang

The ubiquitous multi-camera setup on modern autonomous vehicles provides an opportunity to construct surround-view depth. Existing methods, however, either perform independent monocular depth estimations on each camera or rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Yunxiao Shi , Hong Cai , Amin Ansari , Fatih Porikli

We formulate monocular depth estimation using denoising diffusion models, inspired by their recent successes in high fidelity image generation. To that end, we introduce innovations to address problems arising due to noisy, incomplete depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Saurabh Saxena , Abhishek Kar , Mohammad Norouzi , David J. Fleet

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

Large-scale LiDAR-based point cloud semantic segmentation is a critical task in autonomous driving perception. Almost all of the previous state-of-the-art LiDAR semantic segmentation methods are variants of sparse 3D convolution. Although…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Chuanyu Luo , Nuo Cheng , Sikun Ma , Han Li , Xiaohan Li , Shengguang Lei , Pu Li

Depth estimation plays a pivotal role in advancing human-robot interactions, especially in indoor environments where accurate 3D scene reconstruction is essential for tasks like navigation and object handling. Monocular depth estimation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Siddiqui Muhammad Yasir , Hyunsik Ahn

We present a self-supervised approach to training convolutional neural networks for dense depth estimation from monocular endoscopy data without a priori modeling of anatomy or shading. Our method only requires monocular endoscopic videos…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Xingtong Liu , Ayushi Sinha , Masaru Ishii , Gregory D. Hager , Austin Reiter , Russell H. Taylor , Mathias Unberath

Estimating accurate 3D locations of objects from monocular images is a challenging problem because of lacking depth. Previous work shows that utilizing the object's keypoint projection constraints to estimate multiple depth candidates…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Yingyan Li , Yuntao Chen , Jiawei He , Zhaoxiang Zhang