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Depth estimation and 3D object detection are critical for scene understanding but remain challenging to perform with a single image due to the loss of 3D information during image capture. Recent models using deep neural networks have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Julie Chang , Gordon Wetzstein

Scale-aware monocular depth estimation poses a significant challenge in computer-aided endoscopic navigation. However, existing depth estimation methods that do not consider the geometric priors struggle to learn the absolute scale from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Ruofeng Wei , Bin Li , Kai Chen , Yiyao Ma , Yunhui Liu , Qi Dou

Monocular depth estimation (MDE) aims to transform an RGB image of a scene into a pixelwise depth map from the same camera view. It is fundamentally ill-posed due to missing information: any single image can have been taken from many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Dylan Auty , Krystian Mikolajczyk

Depth estimation is a cornerstone of 3D reconstruction and plays a vital role in minimally invasive endoscopic surgeries. However, most current depth estimation networks rely on traditional convolutional neural networks, which are limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Bojian Li , Bo Liu , Xinning Yao , Jinghua Yue , Fugen Zhou

While learning based depth estimation from images/videos has achieved substantial progress, there still exist intrinsic limitations. Supervised methods are limited by a small amount of ground truth or labeled data and unsupervised methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-24 Haofei Xu , Jianmin Zheng , Jianfei Cai , Juyong Zhang

Dense and accurate depth estimation is essential for robotic manipulation, grasping, and navigation, yet currently available depth sensors are prone to errors on transparent, specular, and general non-Lambertian surfaces. To mitigate these…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Simon Dorer , Martin Büchner , Nick Heppert , Abhinav Valada

Monocular depth prediction plays a crucial role in understanding 3D scene geometry. Although recent methods have achieved impressive progress in terms of evaluation metrics such as the pixel-wise relative error, most methods neglect the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Wei Yin , Yifan Liu , Chunhua Shen

Depth cues have been proved very useful in various computer vision and robotic tasks. This paper addresses the problem of monocular depth estimation from a single still image. Inspired by the effectiveness of recent works on multi-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-05 Dan Xu , Elisa Ricci , Wanli Ouyang , Xiaogang Wang , Nicu Sebe

We present a foundation model for zero-shot metric monocular depth estimation. Our model, Depth Pro, synthesizes high-resolution depth maps with unparalleled sharpness and high-frequency details. The predictions are metric, with absolute…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Aleksei Bochkovskii , Amaël Delaunoy , Hugo Germain , Marcel Santos , Yichao Zhou , Stephan R. Richter , Vladlen Koltun

Monocular depth estimation (MDE) typically produces depth estimations that are defined up to an unknown scale or shift. When only sparse metric anchors are available, recovering accurate metric depth becomes challenging yet necessary for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Yuanyan Li , Matthias Althoff

Transparent object perception is indispensable for numerous robotic tasks. However, accurately segmenting and estimating the depth of transparent objects remain challenging due to complex optical properties. Existing methods primarily delve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Jiangyuan Liu , Hongxuan Ma , Yuxin Guo , Yuhao Zhao , Chi Zhang , Wei Sui , Wei Zou

The increasing accuracy reports of metric monocular depth estimation models lead to a growing interest from the automotive domain. Current model evaluations do not provide deeper insights into the models' performance, also in relation to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Tim Bader , Leon Eisemann , Adrian Pogorzelski , Namrata Jangid , Attila-Balazs Kis

Depth estimation is one of the essential tasks to be addressed when creating mobile autonomous systems. While monocular depth estimation methods have improved in recent times, depth completion provides more accurate and reliable depth maps…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Wolfgang Boettcher , Lukas Hoyer , Ozan Unal , Ke Li , Dengxin Dai

This work presents a generalizable framework to transfer relative depth to metric depth. Current monocular depth estimation methods are mainly divided into metric depth estimation (MMDE) and relative depth estimation (MRDE). MMDEs estimate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Beilei Cui , Yiming Huang , Long Bai , Hongliang Ren

Monocular 3D object detection poses a significant challenge due to the lack of depth information in RGB images. Many existing methods strive to enhance the object depth estimation performance by allocating additional parameters for object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Wonhyeok Choi , Mingyu Shin , Sunghoon Im

Monocular depth estimation has improved significantly in recent years, driven by increasingly powerful models and large-scale training data. Predicted depth is increasingly used as an input signal for downstream tasks such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Viktor Kocur , Sithu Aung , Gabrielle Flood , Yaqing Ding , Lukas Bujnak , Torsten Sattler , Zuzana Kukelova

Perceiving the three-dimensional (3D) structure of the spacecraft is a prerequisite for successfully executing many on-orbit space missions, and it can provide critical input for many downstream vision algorithms. In this paper, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Xiang Liu , Hongyuan Wang , Zhiqiang Yan , Yu Chen , Xinlong Chen , Weichun Chen

Recent work on depth estimation up to now has only focused on projective images ignoring 360 content which is now increasingly and more easily produced. We show that monocular depth estimation models trained on traditional images produce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Nikolaos Zioulis , Antonis Karakottas , Dimitrios Zarpalas , Petros Daras

Explainable artificial intelligence is increasingly employed to understand the decision-making process of deep learning models and create trustworthiness in their adoption. However, the explainability of Monocular Depth Estimation (MDE)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Lorenzo Cirillo , Claudio Schiavella , Lorenzo Papa , Paolo Russo , Irene Amerini

360{\deg} cameras can capture complete environments in a single shot, which makes 360{\deg} imagery alluring in many computer vision tasks. However, monocular depth estimation remains a challenge for 360{\deg} data, particularly for high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Manuel Rey-Area , Mingze Yuan , Christian Richardt