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At present, deep learning has been applied more and more in monocular image depth estimation and has shown promising results. The current more ideal method for monocular depth estimation is the supervised learning based on ground truth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Zhimin Zhang , Jianzhong Qiao , Shukuan Lin

Autonomous cars need continuously updated depth information. Thus far, depth is mostly estimated independently for a single frame at a time, even if the method starts from video input. Our method produces a time series of depth maps, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Vaishakh Patil , Wouter Van Gansbeke , Dengxin Dai , Luc Van Gool

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

Previous monocular depth estimation methods take a single view and directly regress the expected results. Though recent advances are made by applying geometrically inspired loss functions during training, the inference procedure does not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-12 Yue Luo , Jimmy Ren , Mude Lin , Jiahao Pang , Wenxiu Sun , Hongsheng Li , Liang Lin

We consider the problem of depth estimation from a single monocular image in this work. It is a challenging task as no reliable depth cues are available, e.g., stereo correspondences, motions, etc. Previous efforts have been focusing on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-10-01 Fayao Liu , Chunhua Shen , Guosheng Lin

Per-pixel ground-truth depth data is challenging to acquire at scale. To overcome this limitation, self-supervised learning has emerged as a promising alternative for training models to perform monocular depth estimation. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Clément Godard , Oisin Mac Aodha , Michael Firman , Gabriel Brostow

Depth estimation is a core problem in robotic perception and vision tasks, but 3D reconstruction from a single image presents inherent uncertainties. Current depth estimation models primarily rely on inter-image relationships for supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Jinchang Zhang , Guoyu Lu

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

Accurate stereo depth estimation plays a critical role in various 3D tasks in both indoor and outdoor environments. Recently, learning-based multi-view stereo methods have demonstrated competitive performance with a limited number of views.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Uday Kusupati , Shuo Cheng , Rui Chen , Hao Su

Depth estimation from a single image is a challenging problem in computer vision because binocular disparity or motion information is absent. Whereas impressive performances have been reported in this area recently using end-to-end trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Yihong Wu , Yuwen Heng , Mahesan Niranjan , Hansung Kim

Depth estimation is of critical interest for scene understanding and accurate 3D reconstruction. Most recent approaches in depth estimation with deep learning exploit geometrical structures of standard sharp images to predict corresponding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-07 Marcela Carvalho , Bertrand Le Saux , Pauline Trouvé-Peloux , Andrés Almansa , Frédéric Champagnat

We review solutions to the problem of depth estimation, arguably the most important subtask in scene understanding. We focus on the single image depth estimation problem. Due to its properties, the single image depth estimation problem is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Alican Mertan , Damien Jade Duff , Gozde Unal

Depth perception is crucial for spatial understanding and has traditionally been achieved through stereoscopic imaging. However, the precision of depth estimation using stereoscopic methods depends on the accurate calibration of binocular…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Muhamamd Ishfaq Hussain , Zubia Naz , Muhammad Aasim Rafique , Moongu Jeon

We revisit the problem of visual depth estimation in the context of autonomous vehicles. Despite the progress on monocular depth estimation in recent years, we show that the gap between monocular and stereo depth accuracy remains large$-$a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Nikolai Smolyanskiy , Alexey Kamenev , Stan Birchfield

360{\deg} cameras can capture complete environments in a single shot, which makes 360{\deg} imagery alluring in many computer vision tasks. However, monocular depth estimation remains a challenge for 360{\deg} data, particularly for high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Manuel Rey-Area , Mingze Yuan , Christian Richardt

Monocular depth estimation, similar to other image-based tasks, is prone to erroneous predictions due to ambiguities in the image, for example, caused by dynamic objects or shadows. For this reason, pixel-wise uncertainty assessment is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Julia Hornauer , Amir El-Ghoussani , Vasileios Belagiannis

Monocular visual odometry (VO) is an important task in robotics and computer vision. Thus far, how to build accurate and robust monocular VO systems that can work well in diverse scenarios remains largely unsolved. In this paper, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Libo Sun , Wei Yin , Enze Xie , Zhengrong Li , Changming Sun , Chunhua Shen

Monocular depth estimation can play an important role in addressing the issue of deriving scene geometry from 2D images. It has been used in a variety of industries, including robots, self-driving cars, scene comprehension, 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Ruilin Ma , Shiyao Chen , Qin Zhang

We present a novel approach for estimating depth from a monocular camera as it moves through complex and crowded indoor environments, e.g., a department store or a metro station. Our approach predicts absolute scale depth maps over the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Dongki Jung , Jaehoon Choi , Yonghan Lee , Deokhwa Kim , Changick Kim , Dinesh Manocha , Donghwan Lee

Current methods for depth map prediction from monocular images tend to predict smooth, poorly localized contours for the occlusion boundaries in the input image. This is unfortunate as occlusion boundaries are important cues to recognize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Michael Ramamonjisoa , Yuming Du , Vincent Lepetit