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In this article, we tackle the problem of depth estimation from single monocular images. Compared with depth estimation using multiple images such as stereo depth perception, depth from monocular images is much more challenging. Prior work…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Fayao Liu , Chunhua Shen , Guosheng Lin , Ian Reid

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

Human visual system relies on both binocular stereo cues and monocular focusness cues to gain effective 3D perception. In computer vision, the two problems are traditionally solved in separate tracks. In this paper, we present a unified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Xinqing Guo , Zhang Chen , Siyuan Li , Yang Yang , Jingyi Yu

This paper addresses the problem of dense depth predictions from sparse distance sensor data and a single camera image on challenging weather conditions. This work explores the significance of different sensor modalities such as camera,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Sadique Adnan Siddiqui , Axel Vierling , Karsten Berns

Monocular depth estimation is an important step in many downstream tasks in machine vision. We address the topic of estimating monocular depth from defocus blur which can yield more accurate results than the semantic based depth estimation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Lahiru Wijayasingha , Homa Alemzadeh , John A. Stankovic

Single-view depth estimation suffers from the problem that a network trained on images from one camera does not generalize to images taken with a different camera model. Thus, changing the camera model requires collecting an entirely new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-04 Jose M. Facil , Benjamin Ummenhofer , Huizhong Zhou , Luis Montesano , Thomas Brox , Javier Civera

Shape from Focus (SFF) is a depth reconstruction technique that estimates scene structure from focus variations observed across a focal stack, that is, a sequence of images captured at different focus settings. A key limitation of SFF…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Khurram Ashfaq , Muhammad Tariq Mahmood

We present an algorithm for estimating consistent dense depth maps and camera poses from a monocular video. We integrate a learning-based depth prior, in the form of a convolutional neural network trained for single-image depth estimation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Johannes Kopf , Xuejian Rong , Jia-Bin Huang

This paper studies single-image depth perception in the wild, i.e., recovering depth from a single image taken in unconstrained settings. We introduce a new dataset "Depth in the Wild" consisting of images in the wild annotated with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-01-09 Weifeng Chen , Zhao Fu , Dawei Yang , Jia Deng

Most existing methods for depth estimation from a focal stack of images employ convolutional neural networks (CNNs) using 2D or 3D convolutions over a fixed set of images. However, their effectiveness is constrained by the local properties…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Xueyang Kang , Fengze Han , Abdur R. Fayjie , Patrick Vandewalle , Kourosh Khoshelham , Dong Gong

Depth estimation from single monocular images is a key component of scene understanding and has benefited largely from deep convolutional neural networks (CNN) recently. In this article, we take advantage of the recent deep residual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-14 Yuanzhouhan Cao , Zifeng Wu , Chunhua Shen

Light field data has been demonstrated to facilitate the depth estimation task. Most learning-based methods estimate the depth infor-mation from EPI or sub-aperture images, while less methods pay attention to the focal stack. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Yongri Piao , Xinxin Ji , Miao Zhang , Yukun Zhang

Depth estimation is a fundamental task in 3D geometry. While stereo depth estimation can be achieved through triangulation methods, it is not as straightforward for monocular methods, which require the integration of global and local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Jinchang Zhang , Ningning Xu , Hao Zhang , Guoyu Lu

Depth estimation from a single image in the wild remains a challenging problem. One main obstacle is the lack of high-quality training data for images in the wild. In this paper we propose a method to automatically generate such data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-25 Weifeng Chen , Shengyi Qian , Jia Deng

We consider the problem of depth estimation from a single monocular image in this work. It is a challenging task as no reliable depth cues are available, e.g., stereo correspondences, motions, etc. Previous efforts have been focusing on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-10-01 Fayao Liu , Chunhua Shen , Guosheng Lin

Depth from Defocus (DfD) is the task of estimating a dense metric depth map from a focus stack. Unlike previous works overfitting to a certain dataset, this paper focuses on the challenging and practical setting of zero-shot generalization.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Yiming Zuo , Hongyu Wen , Venkat Subramanian , Patrick Chen , Karhan Kayan , Mario Bijelic , Felix Heide , Jia Deng

Perceiving 3D information is of paramount importance in many applications of computer vision. Recent advances in monocular depth estimation have shown that gaining such knowledge from a single camera input is possible by training deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Sai Shyam Chanduri , Zeeshan Khan Suri , Igor Vozniak , Christian Müller

Many mobile manufacturers recently have adopted Dual-Pixel (DP) sensors in their flagship models for faster auto-focus and aesthetic image captures. Despite their advantages, research on their usage for 3D facial understanding has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Minjun Kang , Jaesung Choe , Hyowon Ha , Hae-Gon Jeon , Sunghoon Im , In So Kweon , KuK-Jin Yoon

A shallow depth-of-field image keeps the subject in focus, and the foreground and background contexts blurred. This effect requires much larger lens apertures than those of smartphone cameras. Conventional methods acquire RGB-D images and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Meng-Lin Wu , Venkata Ravi Kiran Dayana , Hau Hwang

Depth estimation from monocular images is a challenging problem in computer vision. In this paper, we tackle this problem using a novel network architecture using multi scale feature fusion. Our network uses two different blocks, first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Abhinav Sagar