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Depth estimation is a fundamental task in 3D computer vision, crucial for applications such as 3D reconstruction, free-viewpoint rendering, robotics, autonomous driving, and AR/VR technologies. Traditional methods relying on hardware…

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Self-supervised learning for depth estimation uses geometry in image sequences for supervision and shows promising results. Like many computer vision tasks, depth network performance is determined by the capability to learn accurate spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Hang Zhou , David Greenwood , Sarah Taylor

Accurate monocular metric depth estimation (MMDE) is crucial to solving downstream tasks in 3D perception and modeling. However, the remarkable accuracy of recent MMDE methods is confined to their training domains. These methods fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Luigi Piccinelli , Yung-Hsu Yang , Christos Sakaridis , Mattia Segu , Siyuan Li , Luc Van Gool , Fisher Yu

Accurate monocular metric depth estimation (MMDE) is crucial to solving downstream tasks in 3D perception and modeling. However, the remarkable accuracy of recent MMDE methods is confined to their training domains. These methods fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Luigi Piccinelli , Christos Sakaridis , Yung-Hsu Yang , Mattia Segu , Siyuan Li , Wim Abbeloos , Luc Van Gool

Self-supervised monocular depth estimation, aiming to learn scene depths from single images in a self-supervised manner, has received much attention recently. In spite of recent efforts in this field, how to learn accurate scene depths and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Zhengming Zhou , Qiulei Dong

Depth estimation is a challenging task of 3D reconstruction to enhance the accuracy sensing of environment awareness. This work brings a new solution with a set of improvements, which increase the quantitative and qualitative understanding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Armin Masoumian , Hatem A. Rashwan , Saddam Abdulwahab , Julian Cristiano , Domenec Puig

We formulate monocular depth estimation using denoising diffusion models, inspired by their recent successes in high fidelity image generation. To that end, we introduce innovations to address problems arising due to noisy, incomplete depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Saurabh Saxena , Abhishek Kar , Mohammad Norouzi , David J. Fleet

Estimating depth from a single 2D image is a challenging task due to the lack of stereo or multi-view data, which are typically required for depth perception. In state-of-the-art architectures, the main challenge is to efficiently capture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Dabbrata Das , Argho Deb Das , Farhan Sadaf

Monocular depth estimation is an ill-posed problem as the same 2D image can be projected from infinite 3D scenes. Although the leading algorithms in this field have reported significant improvement, they are essentially geared to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Xiaodong Yang , Zhuang Ma , Zhiyu Ji , Zhe Ren

Current self-supervised methods for monocular depth estimation are largely based on deeply nested convolutional networks that leverage stereo image pairs or monocular sequences during a training phase. However, they often exhibit inaccurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Jaehoon Cho , Dongbo Min , Youngjung Kim , Kwanghoon Sohn

Monocular depth estimation (MDE) is a critical component of many medical tracking and mapping algorithms, particularly from endoscopic or laparoscopic video. However, because ground truth depth maps cannot be acquired from real patient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-31 John J. Han , Ayberk Acar , Callahan Henry , Jie Ying Wu

Due to difficulties in acquiring ground truth depth of equirectangular (360) images, the quality and quantity of equirectangular depth data today is insufficient to represent the various scenes in the world. Therefore, 360 depth estimation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Ilwi Yun , Hyuk-Jae Lee , Chae Eun Rhee

Unsupervised methods have showed promising results on monocular depth estimation. However, the training data must be captured in scenes without moving objects. To push the envelope of accuracy, recent methods tend to increase their model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Tak-Wai Hui

Monocular depth estimation is vital for scene understanding and downstream tasks. We focus on the supervised setup, in which ground-truth depth is available only at training time. Based on knowledge about the high regularity of real 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Vaishakh Patil , Christos Sakaridis , Alexander Liniger , Luc Van Gool

Monocular depth estimation aims to recover the depth information of 3D scenes from 2D images. Recent work has made significant progress, but its reliance on large-scale datasets and complex decoders has limited its efficiency and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Zeyu Ren , Zeyu Zhang , Wukai Li , Qingxiang Liu , Hao Tang

Although both self-supervised single-frame and multi-frame depth estimation methods only require unlabeled monocular videos for training, the information they leverage varies because single-frame methods mainly rely on appearance-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Jie Xiang , Yun Wang , Lifeng An , Haiyang Liu , Jian Liu

Self-supervised depth learning from monocular images normally relies on the 2D pixel-wise photometric relation between temporally adjacent image frames. However, they neither fully exploit the 3D point-wise geometric correspondences, nor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Kaichen Zhou , Lanqing Hong , Changhao Chen , Hang Xu , Chaoqiang Ye , Qingyong Hu , Zhenguo Li

Monocular depth estimation (MDE) is a challenging task in computer vision, often hindered by the cost and scarcity of high-quality labeled datasets. We tackle this challenge using auxiliary datasets from related vision tasks for an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Alessio Quercia , Erenus Yildiz , Zhuo Cao , Kai Krajsek , Abigail Morrison , Ira Assent , Hanno Scharr

Self-supervised methods play an increasingly important role in monocular depth estimation due to their great potential and low annotation cost. To close the gap with supervised methods, recent works take advantage of extra constraints,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Rui Peng , Ronggang Wang , Yawen Lai , Luyang Tang , Yangang Cai

Endoscopic depth estimation is a critical technology for improving the safety and precision of minimally invasive surgery. It has attracted considerable attention from researchers in medical imaging, computer vision, and robotics. Over the…

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