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Monocular depth prediction plays a crucial role in understanding 3D scene geometry. Although recent methods have achieved impressive progress in terms of evaluation metrics such as the pixel-wise relative error, most methods neglect the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Wei Yin , Yifan Liu , Chunhua Shen

Incrementally recovering real-sized 3D geometry from a pose-free RGB stream is a challenging task in 3D reconstruction, requiring minimal assumptions on input data. Existing methods can be broadly categorized into end-to-end and visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Linqing Zhao , Xiuwei Xu , Yirui Wang , Hao Wang , Wenzhao Zheng , Yansong Tang , Haibin Yan , Jiwen Lu

The RGB-D camera maintains a limited range for working and is hard to accurately measure the depth information in a far distance. Besides, the RGB-D camera will easily be influenced by strong lighting and other external factors, which will…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Mingyang Geng , Suning Shang , Bo Ding , Huaimin Wang , Pengfei Zhang , Lei Zhang

Depth completion, the technique of estimating a dense depth image from sparse depth measurements, has a variety of applications in robotics and autonomous driving. However, depth completion faces 3 main challenges: the irregularly spaced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-04 Fangchang Ma , Guilherme Venturelli Cavalheiro , Sertac Karaman

Depth estimation is a cornerstone of a vast number of applications requiring 3D assessment of the environment, such as robotics, augmented reality, and autonomous driving to name a few. One prominent technique for depth estimation is stereo…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Amit Bracha , Noam Rotstein , David Bensaïd , Ron Slossberg , Ron Kimmel

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

We propose a dense RGBD SLAM system based on 3D Gaussian Splatting that provides metrically accurate pose tracking and visually realistic reconstruction. To this end, we first propose a Gaussian densification strategy based on the rendering…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Shuo Sun , Malcolm Mielle , Achim J. Lilienthal , Martin Magnusson

Real-time dense scene reconstruction during unstable camera motions is crucial for robotics, yet current RGB-D SLAM systems fail when cameras experience large viewpoint changes, fast motions, or sudden shaking. Classical optimization-based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Siyan Dong , Zijun Wang , Lulu Cai , Yi Ma , Yanchao Yang

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

Self-supervised monocular depth estimation (MDE) has gained popularity for obtaining depth predictions directly from videos. However, these methods often produce scale invariant results, unless additional training signals are provided.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Gasser Elazab , Torben Gräber , Michael Unterreiner , Olaf Hellwich

Self-supervised monocular depth estimation has emerged as a promising method because it does not require groundtruth depth maps during training. As an alternative for the groundtruth depth map, the photometric loss enables to provide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Jaehoon Choi , Dongki Jung , Donghwan Lee , Changick Kim

Dense depth estimation and 3D reconstruction of a surgical scene are crucial steps in computer assisted surgery. Recent work has shown that depth estimation from a stereo images pair could be solved with convolutional neural networks.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-24 Baoru Huang , Jianqing Zheng , Anh Nguyen , David Tuch , Kunal Vyas , Stamatia Giannarou , Daniel S. Elson

We propose a novel dense mapping framework for sparse visual SLAM systems which leverages a compact scene representation. State-of-the-art sparse visual SLAM systems provide accurate and reliable estimates of the camera trajectory and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Hidenobu Matsuki , Raluca Scona , Jan Czarnowski , Andrew J. Davison

Real-time 3D reconstruction enables fast dense mapping of the environment which benefits numerous applications, such as navigation or live evaluation of an emergency. In contrast to most real-time capable approaches, our approach does not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Max Hermann , Boitumelo Ruf , Martin Weinmann

Recently, the multi-modal fusion of RGB, depth, and semantics has shown great potential in dense Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM). However, a prerequisite for generating consistent semantic maps is the availability of dense,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Linfei Li , Lin Zhang , Zhong Wang , Ying Shen

Self-supervised monocular depth estimation networks are trained to predict scene depth using nearby frames as a supervision signal during training. However, for many applications, sequence information in the form of video frames is also…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Jamie Watson , Oisin Mac Aodha , Victor Prisacariu , Gabriel Brostow , Michael Firman

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

Robust three-dimensional scene understanding is now an ever-growing area of research highly relevant in many real-world applications such as autonomous driving and robotic navigation. In this paper, we propose a multi-task learning-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-16 Amir Atapour-Abarghouei , Toby P. Breckon

In this paper, we propose a RGB-D SLAM system that reconstructs a language-aligned dense feature field while sustaining low-latency tracking and mapping. First, we introduce a Top-K Rendering pipeline, a high-throughput and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Seongbo Ha , Sibaek Lee , Kyungsu Kang , Joonyeol Choi , Seungjun Tak , Hyeonwoo Yu

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