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Accurate three-dimensional perception is essential for modern industrial robotic systems that perform manipulation, inspection, and navigation tasks. RGB-D and stereo vision sensors are widely used for this purpose, but the depth maps they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Tony Salloom , Dandi Zhou , Xinhai Sun

LiDAR sensors are often considered essential for autonomous driving, but high-resolution sensors remain expensive while affordable low-resolution sensors produce sparse point clouds that miss critical details. LiDAR super-resolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-19 June Moh Goo , Zichao Zeng , Jan Boehm

Depth completion, aiming to predict dense depth maps from sparse depth measurements, plays a crucial role in many computer vision related applications. Deep learning approaches have demonstrated overwhelming success in this task. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Yu Cai , Tianyu Shen , Shi-Sheng Huang , Hua Huang

This work presents the Large Depth Completion Model (LDCM), a simple, effective, and robust framework for single-view metric depth estimation with sparse observations. Without relying on complex architectural designs, LDCM generates…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Zhu Yu , Zhengyi Zhao , Runmin Zhang , Lingteng Qiu , Kejie Qiu , Yisheng He , Siyu Zhu , Zilong Dong , Si-Yuan Cao , Hui-Liang Shen

Depth completion is a key task in autonomous driving, aiming to complete sparse LiDAR depth measurements into high-quality dense depth maps through image guidance. However, existing methods usually treat depth maps as an additional channel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Kuang Zhu , Xingli Gan , Min Sun

This paper addresses the problem of single image depth estimation (SIDE), focusing on improving the quality of deep neural network predictions. In a supervised learning scenario, the quality of predictions is intrinsically related to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-10 Nícolas Rosa , Vitor Guizilini , Valdir Grassi

Autonomous field robots operating in unstructured environments require robust perception to ensure safe and reliable operations. Recent advances in monocular depth estimation have demonstrated the potential of low-cost cameras as depth…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Marco Job , Thomas Stastny , Eleni Kelasidi , Roland Siegwart , Michael Pantic

Dense depth perception is critical for autonomous driving and other robotics applications. However, modern LiDAR sensors only provide sparse depth measurement. It is thus necessary to complete the sparse LiDAR data, where a synchronized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Jie Tang , Fei-Peng Tian , Wei Feng , Jian Li , Ping Tan

This work considers the problem of depth completion, with or without image data, where an algorithm may measure the depth of a prescribed limited number of pixels. The algorithmic challenge is to choose pixel positions strategically and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Eyal Gofer , Shachar Praisler , Guy Gilboa

Depth completion deals with the problem of recovering dense depth maps from sparse ones, where color images are often used to facilitate this task. Recent approaches mainly focus on image guided learning frameworks to predict dense depth.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-14 Zhiqiang Yan , Kun Wang , Xiang Li , Zhenyu Zhang , Jun Li , Jian Yang

Depth completion is a crucial task in autonomous driving, aiming to convert a sparse depth map into a dense depth prediction. Due to its potentially rich semantic information, RGB image is commonly fused to enhance the completion effect.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Moyun Liu , Bing Chen , Youping Chen , Jingming Xie , Lei Yao , Yang Zhang , Joey Tianyi Zhou

Supervised deep learning often suffers from the lack of sufficient training data. Specifically in the context of monocular depth map prediction, it is barely possible to determine dense ground truth depth images in realistic dynamic outdoor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-15 Yevhen Kuznietsov , Jörg Stückler , Bastian Leibe

Transparent and reflective objects in everyday environments pose significant challenges for depth sensors due to their unique visual properties, such as specular reflections and light transmission. These characteristics often lead to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Guanghu Xie , Zhiduo Jiang , Yonglong Zhang , Yang Liu , Zongwu Xie , Baoshi Cao , Hong Liu

With the wide application of sparse ToF sensors in mobile devices, RGB image-guided sparse depth completion has attracted extensive attention recently, but still faces some problems. First, the fusion of multimodal information requires more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Dewang Hou , Yuanyuan Du , Kai Zhao , Yang Zhao

Many robotic tasks involving some form of 3D visual perception greatly benefit from a complete knowledge of the working environment. However, robots often have to tackle unstructured environments and their onboard visual sensors can only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Andrea Rosasco , Stefano Berti , Fabrizio Bottarel , Michele Colledanchise , Lorenzo Natale

We propose a method for depth estimation under different illumination conditions, i.e., day and night time. As photometry is uninformative in regions under low-illumination, we tackle the problem through a multi-sensor fusion approach,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Vadim Ezhov , Hyoungseob Park , Zhaoyang Zhang , Rishi Upadhyay , Howard Zhang , Chethan Chinder Chandrappa , Achuta Kadambi , Yunhao Ba , Julie Dorsey , Alex Wong

Depth completion aims to predict a dense depth map from a sparse depth input. The acquisition of dense ground truth annotations for depth completion settings can be difficult and, at the same time, a significant domain gap between real…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-06 Adrian Lopez-Rodriguez , Benjamin Busam , Krystian Mikolajczyk

Convolutional neural networks are designed for dense data, but vision data is often sparse (stereo depth, point clouds, pen stroke, etc.). We present a method to handle sparse depth data with optional dense RGB, and accomplish depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-03 Maximilian Jaritz , Raoul de Charette , Emilie Wirbel , Xavier Perrotton , Fawzi Nashashibi

Depth sensing is a critical component of autonomous driving technologies, but today's LiDAR- or stereo camera-based solutions have limited range. We seek to increase the maximum range of self-driving vehicles' depth perception modules for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-08 Kai Zhang , Jiaxin Xie , Noah Snavely , Qifeng Chen

Image guided depth completion aims to recover per-pixel dense depth maps from sparse depth measurements with the help of aligned color images, which has a wide range of applications from robotics to autonomous driving. However, the 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Xin Liu , Xiaofei Shao , Bo Wang , Yali Li , Shengjin Wang