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Monocular depth estimation (MDE) has attracted increasing interest in the past few years, owing to its important role in 3D vision. MDE is the estimation of a depth map from a monocular image/video to represent the 3D structure of a scene,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Shuai Li , Huibin Bai , Yanbo Gao , Chong Lv , Hui Yuan , Chuankun Li , Wei Hua , Tian Xie

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

In the current monocular depth research, the dominant approach is to employ unsupervised training on large datasets, driven by warped photometric consistency. Such approaches lack robustness and are unable to generalize to challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Jaime Spencer , Richard Bowden , Simon Hadfield

Monocular Metric Depth Estimation (MMDE) is essential for physically intelligent systems, yet accurate depth estimation for underrepresented classes in complex scenes remains a persistent challenge. To address this, we propose RAD, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Michael Baltaxe , Dan Levi , Sagie Benaim

This paper presents an open and comprehensive framework to systematically evaluate state-of-the-art contributions to self-supervised monocular depth estimation. This includes pretraining, backbone, architectural design choices and loss…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Jaime Spencer , Chris Russell , Simon Hadfield , Richard Bowden

Self-supervised monocular depth estimation presents a powerful method to obtain 3D scene information from single camera images, which is trainable on arbitrary image sequences without requiring depth labels, e.g., from a LiDAR sensor. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Marvin Klingner , Jan-Aike Termöhlen , Jonas Mikolajczyk , Tim Fingscheidt

Self-supervised depth estimation for indoor environments is more challenging than its outdoor counterpart in at least the following two aspects: (i) the depth range of indoor sequences varies a lot across different frames, making it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-29 Pan Ji , Runze Li , Bir Bhanu , Yi Xu

Depth information is important for autonomous systems to perceive environments and estimate their own state. Traditional depth estimation methods, like structure from motion and stereo vision matching, are built on feature correspondences…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-06 Chaoqiang Zhao , Qiyu Sun , Chongzhen Zhang , Yang Tang , Feng Qian

Self-supervised monocular depth estimation serves as a key task in the development of endoscopic navigation systems. However, performance degradation persists due to uneven illumination inherent in endoscopic images, particularly in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Mingyang Ou , Haojin Li , Yifeng Zhang , Ke Niu , Zhongxi Qiu , Heng Li , Jiang Liu

This paper summarizes the results of the first Monocular Depth Estimation Challenge (MDEC) organized at WACV2023. This challenge evaluated the progress of self-supervised monocular depth estimation on the challenging SYNS-Patches dataset.…

As a flexible passive 3D sensing means, unsupervised learning of depth from monocular videos is becoming an important research topic. It utilizes the photometric errors between the target view and the synthesized views from its adjacent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Hualie Jiang , Laiyan Ding , Zhenglong Sun , Rui Huang

Monocular depth estimation (MDE) provides a useful tool for robotic perception, but its predictions are often uncertain and inaccurate in challenging environments such as surgical scenes where textureless surfaces, specular reflections, and…

The latest advances in deep learning have facilitated the development of highly accurate monocular depth estimation models. However, when training a monocular depth estimation network, practitioners and researchers have observed not a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Bum Jun Kim , Hyeonah Jang , Sang Woo Kim

Self-supervised monocular depth estimation methods aim to be used in critical applications such as autonomous vehicles for environment analysis. To circumvent the potential imperfections of these approaches, a quantification of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Rémi Marsal , Florian Chabot , Angelique Loesch , William Grolleau , Hichem Sahbi

Self-supervised monocular depth estimation aims to infer depth information without relying on labeled data. However, the lack of labeled information poses a significant challenge to the model's representation, limiting its ability to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Guodong Sun , Junjie Liu , Mingxuan Liu , Moyun Liu , Yang Zhang

Depth estimation is solved as a regression or classification problem in existing learning-based multi-view stereo methods. Although these two representations have recently demonstrated their excellent performance, they still have apparent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Rui Peng , Rongjie Wang , Zhenyu Wang , Yawen Lai , Ronggang Wang

We present a generalised self-supervised learning approach for monocular estimation of the real depth across scenes with diverse depth ranges from 1--100s of meters. Existing supervised methods for monocular depth estimation require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-15 Mertalp Ocal , Armin Mustafa

Self-supervised learning shows great potential in monoculardepth estimation, using image sequences as the only source ofsupervision. Although people try to use the high-resolutionimage for depth estimation, the accuracy of prediction hasnot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Xiaoyang Lyu , Liang Liu , Mengmeng Wang , Xin Kong , Lina Liu , Yong Liu , Xinxin Chen , Yi Yuan

Although cameras are ubiquitous, robotic platforms typically rely on active sensors like LiDAR for direct 3D perception. In this work, we propose a novel self-supervised monocular depth estimation method combining geometry with a new deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Vitor Guizilini , Rares Ambrus , Sudeep Pillai , Allan Raventos , Adrien Gaidon

The self-supervised loss formulation for jointly training depth and egomotion neural networks with monocular images is well studied and has demonstrated state-of-the-art accuracy. One of the main limitations of this approach, however, is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Brandon Wagstaff , Jonathan Kelly