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Depth estimation from a single image represents a fascinating, yet challenging problem with countless applications. Recent works proved that this task could be learned without direct supervision from ground truth labels leveraging image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Fabio Tosi , Filippo Aleotti , Matteo Poggi , Stefano Mattoccia

We present a novel method to train machine learning algorithms to estimate scene depths from a single image, by using the information provided by a camera's aperture as supervision. Prior works use a depth sensor's outputs or images of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-30 Pratul P. Srinivasan , Rahul Garg , Neal Wadhwa , Ren Ng , Jonathan T. Barron

Self-supervised deep learning methods have leveraged stereo images for training monocular depth estimation. Although these methods show strong results on outdoor datasets such as KITTI, they do not match performance of supervised methods on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Benjamin Keltjens , Tom van Dijk , Guido de Croon

This paper presents a probabilistic approach for online dense reconstruction using a single monocular camera moving through the environment. Compared to spatial stereo, depth estimation from motion stereo is challenging due to insufficient…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-27 Yonggen Ling , Kaixuan Wang , Shaojie Shen

In monocular depth estimation, disturbances in the image context, like moving objects or reflecting materials, can easily lead to erroneous predictions. For that reason, uncertainty estimates for each pixel are necessary, in particular for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Julia Hornauer , Vasileios Belagiannis

Accurate depth estimation with lowest compute and energy cost is a crucial requirement for unmanned and battery operated autonomous systems. Robotic applications require real time depth estimation for navigation and decision making under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Rajeev Patwari , Varo Ly

Following the successful application of deep convolutional neural networks to 2d human pose estimation, the next logical problem to solve is 3d human pose estimation from monocular images. While previous solutions have shown some success,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-04 Alec Diaz-Arias , Mitchell Messmore , Dmitriy Shin , Stephen Baek

This paper studies unsupervised monocular depth prediction problem. Most of existing unsupervised depth prediction algorithms are developed for outdoor scenarios, while the depth prediction work in the indoor environment is still very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Yinglong Feng , Shuncheng Wu , Okan Köpüklü , Xueyang Kang , Federico Tombari

Monocular Depth Estimation (MDE) is a fundamental problem in computer vision with numerous applications. Recently, LIDAR-supervised methods have achieved remarkable per-pixel depth accuracy in outdoor scenes. However, significant errors are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Lior Talker , Aviad Cohen , Erez Yosef , Alexandra Dana , Michael Dinerstein

Despite significant progress in monocular depth estimation in the wild, recent state-of-the-art methods cannot be used to recover accurate 3D scene shape due to an unknown depth shift induced by shift-invariant reconstruction losses used in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Wei Yin , Jianming Zhang , Oliver Wang , Simon Niklaus , Long Mai , Simon Chen , Chunhua Shen

In this paper, we tackle the problem of estimating the depth of a scene from a monocular video sequence. In particular, we handle challenging scenarios, such as non-translational camera motion and dynamic scenes, where traditional structure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-11-20 Miaomiao Liu , Mathieu Salzmann , Xuming He

Monocular depth estimation involves predicting depth from a single RGB image and plays a crucial role in applications such as autonomous driving, robotic navigation, 3D reconstruction, etc. Recent advancements in learning-based methods have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Jingming Xia , Guanqun Cao , Guang Ma , Yiben Luo , Qinzhao Li , John Oyekan

Self-supervised monocular depth estimation presents a powerful method to obtain 3D scene information from single camera images, which is trainable on arbitrary image sequences without requiring depth labels, e.g., from a LiDAR sensor. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Marvin Klingner , Jan-Aike Termöhlen , Jonas Mikolajczyk , Tim Fingscheidt

Monocular depth estimation is a recurring subject in the field of computer vision. Its ability to describe scenes via a depth map while reducing the constraints related to the formulation of perspective geometry tends to favor its use.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Marc Blanchon , Désiré Sidibé , Olivier Morel , Ralph Seulin , Daniel Braun , Fabrice Meriaudeau

Monocular depth estimation, which plays a crucial role in understanding 3D scene geometry, is an ill-posed problem. Recent methods have gained significant improvement by exploring image-level information and hierarchical features from deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-08 Huan Fu , Mingming Gong , Chaohui Wang , Kayhan Batmanghelich , Dacheng Tao

Monocular depth estimation has recently progressed beyond ordinal depth to provide metric depth predictions. However, its reliability in underwater environments remains limited due to light attenuation and scattering, color distortion,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Zijie Cai , Christopher Metzler

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

With the rapid advancements in autonomous driving and robot navigation, there is a growing demand for lifelong learning models capable of estimating metric (absolute) depth. Lifelong learning approaches potentially offer significant cost…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Junjie Hu , Chenyou Fan , Liguang Zhou , Qing Gao , Honghai Liu , Tin Lun Lam

Deep Learning based techniques have been adopted with precision to solve a lot of standard computer vision problems, some of which are image classification, object detection and segmentation. Despite the widespread success of these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-21 Vikram Mohanty , Shubh Agrawal , Shaswat Datta , Arna Ghosh , Vishnu Dutt Sharma , Debashish Chakravarty

The field of monocular depth estimation is continually evolving with the advent of numerous innovative models and extensions. However, research on monocular depth estimation methods specifically for underwater scenes remains limited,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Wenxiang Gua , Lin Qia