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Depth perception is paramount to tackle real-world problems, ranging from autonomous driving to consumer applications. For the latter, depth estimation from a single image represents the most versatile solution, since a standard camera is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Filippo Aleotti , Giulio Zaccaroni , Luca Bartolomei , Matteo Poggi , Fabio Tosi , Stefano Mattoccia

Modern computer vision has moved beyond the domain of internet photo collections and into the physical world, guiding camera-equipped robots and autonomous cars through unstructured environments. To enable these embodied agents to interact…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Igor Vasiljevic

In this paper, we present a new method for multi-view geometric reconstruction. In recent years, large vision models have rapidly developed, performing excellently across various tasks and demonstrating remarkable generalization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Haoyu Guo , He Zhu , Sida Peng , Haotong Lin , Yunzhi Yan , Tao Xie , Wenguan Wang , Xiaowei Zhou , Hujun Bao

Dense and accurate 3D mapping from a monocular sequence is a key technology for several applications and still an open research area. This paper leverages recent results on single-view CNN-based depth estimation and fuses them with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-28 José M. Fácil , Alejo Concha , Luis Montesano , Javier Civera

Effectively measuring and modeling the reliability of a trained model is essential to the real-world deployment of monocular depth estimation (MDE) models. However, the intrinsic ill-posedness and ordinal-sensitive nature of MDE pose major…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Mochu Xiang , Jing Zhang , Nick Barnes , Yuchao Dai

This paper presents an open and comprehensive framework to systematically evaluate state-of-the-art contributions to self-supervised monocular depth estimation. This includes pretraining, backbone, architectural design choices and loss…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Jaime Spencer , Chris Russell , Simon Hadfield , Richard Bowden

Convolutional Neural Network based approaches for monocular 3D human pose estimation usually require a large amount of training images with 3D pose annotations. While it is feasible to provide 2D joint annotations for large corpora of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Ikhsanul Habibie , Weipeng Xu , Dushyant Mehta , Gerard Pons-Moll , Christian Theobalt

Depth estimation is a core task in 3D computer vision. Recent methods investigate the task of monocular depth trained with various depth sensor modalities. Every sensor has its advantages and drawbacks caused by the nature of estimates. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-11 HyunJun Jung , Patrick Ruhkamp , Guangyao Zhai , Nikolas Brasch , Yitong Li , Yannick Verdie , Jifei Song , Yiren Zhou , Anil Armagan , Slobodan Ilic , Ales Leonardis , Benjamin Busam

The dense depth estimation of a 3D scene has numerous applications, mainly in robotics and surveillance. LiDAR and radar sensors are the hardware solution for real-time depth estimation, but these sensors produce sparse depth maps and are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Alwyn Mathew , Aditya Prakash Patra , Jimson Mathew

Monocular 3D object detection has attracted widespread attention due to its potential to accurately obtain object 3D localization from a single image at a low cost. Depth estimation is an essential but challenging subtask of monocular 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Longfei Yan , Pei Yan , Shengzhou Xiong , Xuanyu Xiang , Yihua Tan

The biodiversity crisis is still accelerating, despite increasing efforts by the international community. Estimating animal abundance is of critical importance to assess, for example, the consequences of land-use change and invasive species…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Timm Haucke , Hjalmar S. Kühl , Jacqueline Hoyer , Volker Steinhage

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

Camera traps are widely used for wildlife monitoring, but extracting accurate distance measurements from monocular images remains challenging due to the lack of depth information. While monocular depth estimation (MDE) methods have advanced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Niccolò Niccoli , Lorenzo Seidenari , Ilaria Greco , Francesco Rovero

Monocular depth estimation is critical for applications such as autonomous driving and scene reconstruction. While existing methods perform well under normal scenarios, their performance declines in adverse weather, due to challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Kui Jiang , Jing Cao , Zhaocheng Yu , Junjun Jiang , Jingchun Zhou

This paper aims at understanding the role of multi-scale information in the estimation of depth from monocular images. More precisely, the paper investigates four different deep CNN architectures, designed to explicitly make use of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-11 Michel Moukari , Sylvaine Picard , Loic Simon , Frédéric Jurie

Depth estimation from a single underwater image is one of the most challenging problems and is highly ill-posed. Due to the absence of large generalized underwater depth datasets and the difficulty in obtaining ground truth depth-maps,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-29 Honey Gupta , Kaushik Mitra

Spatial scene understanding, including monocular depth estimation, is an important problem in various applications, such as robotics and autonomous driving. While improvements in unsupervised monocular depth estimation have potentially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Hemang Chawla , Arnav Varma , Elahe Arani , Bahram Zonooz

Occlusion is one of the most challenging problems in depth estimation. Previous work has modeled the single-occluder occlusion in light field and get good results, however it is still difficult to obtain accurate depth for multi-occluder…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-22 Hao Zhu , Qing Wang , Jingyi Yu

Depth estimation from a single image is an active research topic in computer vision. The most accurate approaches are based on fully supervised learning models, which rely on a large amount of dense and high-resolution (HR) ground-truth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Jialei Xu , Yuanchao Bai , Xianming Liu , Junjun Jiang , Xiangyang Ji

Recently, learning-based robotic navigation systems have gained extensive research attention and made significant progress. However, the diversity of open-world scenarios poses a major challenge for the generalization of such systems to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Xingwu Ji , Haochen Niu , Dexin Duan , Rendong Ying , Fei Wen , Peilin Liu