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State-of-the-art time-of-flight (ToF) based 3D sensors suffer from poor lateral and depth resolutions. In this work, we introduce a novel sensor concept that provides ToF-based 3D measurements of real world objects with depth precisions up…

Timely and accurate floodwater depth estimation is critical for road accessibility and emergency response. While recent computer vision methods have enabled flood detection, they suffer from both accuracy limitations and poor generalization…

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Measuring 3D geometric structures of indoor scenes requires dedicated depth sensors, which are not always available. Echo-based depth estimation has recently been studied as a promising alternative solution. All previous studies have…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Junpei Honma , Akisato Kimura , Go Irie

Optical flow estimation is a crucial subfield of computer vision, serving as a foundation for video tasks. However, the real-world robustness is limited by animated synthetic datasets for training. This introduces domain gaps when applied…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Yingping Liang , Ying Fu , Yutao Hu , Wenqi Shao , Jiaming Liu , Debing Zhang

High frame rate and accurate depth estimation plays an important role in several tasks crucial to robotics and automotive perception. To date, this can be achieved through ToF and LiDAR devices for indoor and outdoor applications,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Andrea Conti , Matteo Poggi , Valerio Cambareri , Stefano Mattoccia

Monocular Depth Estimation (MDE) is a fundamental 3D vision problem with numerous applications such as 3D scene reconstruction, autonomous navigation, and AI content creation. However, robust and generalizable MDE remains challenging due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Yunpeng Bai , Qixing Huang

Depth Anything has achieved remarkable success in monocular depth estimation with strong generalization ability. However, it suffers from temporal inconsistency in videos, hindering its practical applications. Various methods have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Sili Chen , Hengkai Guo , Shengnan Zhu , Feihu Zhang , Zilong Huang , Jiashi Feng , Bingyi Kang

Visual to auditory sensory substitution devices convert visual information into sound and can provide valuable assistance for blind people. Recent iterations of these devices rely on depth sensors. Rules for converting depth into sound…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Louis Commère , Jean Rouat

We introduce a new RGB-D object dataset captured in the wild called WildRGB-D. Unlike most existing real-world object-centric datasets which only come with RGB capturing, the direct capture of the depth channel allows better 3D annotations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Hongchi Xia , Yang Fu , Sifei Liu , Xiaolong Wang

Vision research showed remarkable success in understanding our world, propelled by datasets of images and videos. Sensor data from radar, LiDAR and cameras supports research in robotics and autonomous driving for at least a decade. However,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Amandine Brunetto , Sascha Hornauer , Stella X. Yu , Fabien Moutarde

Non-line-of-sight localization in signal-deprived environments is a challenging yet pertinent problem. Acoustic methods in such predominantly indoor scenarios encounter difficulty due to the reverberant nature. In this study, we aim to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Yi Di Yuan , Swee Liang Wong , Jonathan Pan

Depth estimation is an essential task toward full scene understanding since it allows the projection of rich semantic information captured by cameras into 3D space. While the field has gained much attention recently, datasets for depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Markus Schön , Jona Ruof , Thomas Wodtko , Michael Buchholz , Klaus Dietmayer

Modern cameras are equipped with a wide array of sensors that enable recording the geospatial context of an image. Taking advantage of this, we explore depth estimation under the assumption that the camera is geocalibrated, a problem we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Scott Workman , Hunter Blanton

Current discriminative depth estimation methods often produce blurry artifacts, while generative approaches suffer from slow sampling due to curvatures in the noise-to-depth transport. Our method addresses these challenges by framing depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Ming Gui , Johannes Schusterbauer , Ulrich Prestel , Pingchuan Ma , Dmytro Kotovenko , Olga Grebenkova , Stefan Andreas Baumann , Vincent Tao Hu , Björn Ommer

Monocular depth estimation (MDE) aims to infer per-pixel depth from a single RGB image. While diffusion models have advanced MDE with impressive generalization, they often exhibit limitations in accurately reconstructing far-range regions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Mingxia Zhan , Li Zhang , Yingjie Wang , Xiaomeng Chu , Beibei Wang , Yanyong Zhang

Panoramic depth estimation provides a comprehensive solution for capturing complete $360^\circ$ environmental structural information, offering significant benefits for robotics and AR/VR applications. However, while extensively studied in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Hualie Jiang , Ziyang Song , Zhiqiang Lou , Rui Xu , Minglang Tan

The paper presents a new method of depth estimation dedicated for free-viewpoint television (FTV). The estimation is performed for segments and thus their size can be used to control a trade-off between the quality of depth maps and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-03 Dawid Mieloch , Olgierd Stankiewicz , Marek Domański

Localizing a moving sound source in the real world involves determining its direction-of-arrival (DOA) and distance relative to a microphone. Advancements in DOA estimation have been facilitated by data-driven methods optimized with large…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Saksham Singh Kushwaha , Iran R. Roman , Magdalena Fuentes , Juan Pablo Bello

Many applications of stereo depth estimation in robotics require the generation of accurate disparity maps in real time under significant computational constraints. Current state-of-the-art algorithms force a choice between either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-06 Yan Wang , Zihang Lai , Gao Huang , Brian H. Wang , Laurens van der Maaten , Mark Campbell , Kilian Q. Weinberger

We design a multiscopic vision system that utilizes a low-cost monocular RGB camera to acquire accurate depth estimation. Unlike multi-view stereo with images captured at unconstrained camera poses, the proposed system controls the motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-21 Weihao Yuan , Rui Fan , Michael Yu Wang , Qifeng Chen