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Estimating precise metric depth and scene reconstruction from monocular endoscopy is a fundamental task for surgical navigation in robotic surgery. However, traditional stereo matching adopts binocular images to perceive the depth…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Ruofeng Wei , Bin Li , Hangjie Mo , Fangxun Zhong , Yonghao Long , Qi Dou , Yun-Hui Liu , Dong Sun

Purpose: Surgical scene understanding plays a critical role in the technology stack of tomorrow's intervention-assisting systems in endoscopic surgeries. For this, tracking the endoscope pose is a key component, but remains challenging due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Michel Hayoz , Christopher Hahne , Mathias Gallardo , Daniel Candinas , Thomas Kurmann , Maximilian Allan , Raphael Sznitman

Monocular depth estimation is crucial for tracking and reconstruction algorithms, particularly in the context of surgical videos. However, the inherent challenges in directly obtaining ground truth depth maps during surgery render…

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Following the successful application of deep convolutional neural networks to 2d human pose estimation, the next logical problem to solve is 3d human pose estimation from monocular images. While previous solutions have shown some success,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-04 Alec Diaz-Arias , Mitchell Messmore , Dmitriy Shin , Stephen Baek

Depth estimation plays a pivotal role in advancing human-robot interactions, especially in indoor environments where accurate 3D scene reconstruction is essential for tasks like navigation and object handling. Monocular depth estimation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Siddiqui Muhammad Yasir , Hyunsik Ahn

Estimating the distance to objects is crucial for autonomous vehicles when using depth sensors is not possible. In this case, the distance has to be estimated from on-board mounted RGB cameras, which is a complex task especially in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Michaël Fonder , Damien Ernst , Marc Van Droogenbroeck

Deep learning techniques have enabled rapid progress in monocular depth estimation, but their quality is limited by the ill-posed nature of the problem and the scarcity of high quality datasets. We estimate depth from a single camera by…

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Three-dimensional reconstruction in scenes with extreme depth variations remains challenging due to inconsistent supervisory signals between near-field and far-field regions. Existing methods fail to simultaneously address inaccurate depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Yu Deng , Baozhu Zhao , Junyan Su , Xiaohan Zhang , Qi Liu

Depth estimation from a single image is an active research topic in computer vision. The most accurate approaches are based on fully supervised learning models, which rely on a large amount of dense and high-resolution (HR) ground-truth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Jialei Xu , Yuanchao Bai , Xianming Liu , Junjun Jiang , Xiangyang Ji

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

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

Depth estimation is a cornerstone for autonomous driving, yet acquiring per-pixel depth ground truth for supervised learning is challenging. Self-Supervised Surround Depth Estimation (SSSDE) from consecutive images offers an economical…

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Using accurate depth priors in 3D Gaussian Splatting helps mitigate artifacts caused by sparse training data and textureless surfaces. However, acquiring accurate depth maps requires specialized acquisition systems. Foundation monocular…

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For monocular depth estimation, acquiring ground truths for real data is not easy, and thus domain adaptation methods are commonly adopted using the supervised synthetic data. However, this may still incur a large domain gap due to the lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Yu-Ting Yen , Chia-Ni Lu , Wei-Chen Chiu , Yi-Hsuan Tsai

Unsupervised learning based depth estimation methods have received more and more attention as they do not need vast quantities of densely labeled data for training which are touch to acquire. In this paper, we propose a novel unsupervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Lingtao Zhou , Jiaojiao Fang , Guizhong Liu

Recent learning-based approaches, in which models are trained by single-view images have shown promising results for monocular 3D face reconstruction, but they suffer from the ill-posed face pose and depth ambiguity issue. In contrast to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-27 Jiaxiang Shang , Tianwei Shen , Shiwei Li , Lei Zhou , Mingmin Zhen , Tian Fang , Long Quan

Monocular depth estimation is a highly challenging problem that is often addressed with deep neural networks. While these are able to use recognition of image features to predict reasonably looking depth maps the result often has low metric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Patrik Persson , Linn Öström , Carl Olsson

We present a novel algorithm for self-supervised monocular depth completion. Our approach is based on training a neural network that requires only sparse depth measurements and corresponding monocular video sequences without dense depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Jaehoon Choi , Dongki Jung , Yonghan Lee , Deokhwa Kim , Dinesh Manocha , Donghwan Lee

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

Video depth estimation is crucial in various applications, such as scene reconstruction and augmented reality. In contrast to the naive method of estimating depths from images, a more sophisticated approach uses temporal information,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Elena Kosheleva , Sunil Jaiswal , Faranak Shamsafar , Noshaba Cheema , Klaus Illgner-Fehns , Philipp Slusallek