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Depth completion, the technique of estimating a dense depth image from sparse depth measurements, has a variety of applications in robotics and autonomous driving. However, depth completion faces 3 main challenges: the irregularly spaced…

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Recent advancements of neural networks lead to reliable monocular depth estimation. Monocular depth estimated techniques have the upper hand over traditional depth estimation techniques as it only needs one image during inference. Depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Alwyn Mathew , Aditya Prakash Patra , Jimson Mathew

Monocular depth estimation (MDE) has witnessed remarkable progress driven by Convolutional Neural Networks and transformer-based architectures. However, these approaches typically treat the problem as a generic image-to-image regression on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Qianlei Wang , Kexun Chen , Shaolin Zhang , Hongli Gao , Chaoning Zhang , Xiaolin Qin

At present, deep learning has been applied more and more in monocular image depth estimation and has shown promising results. The current more ideal method for monocular depth estimation is the supervised learning based on ground truth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Zhimin Zhang , Jianzhong Qiao , Shukuan Lin

Self-supervised monocular depth estimation (SS-MDE) has the potential to scale to vast quantities of data. Unfortunately, existing approaches limit themselves to the automotive domain, resulting in models incapable of generalizing to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Jaime Spencer , Chris Russell , Simon Hadfield , Richard Bowden

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have emerged as the state-of-the-art in multiple vision tasks including depth estimation. However, memory and computing power requirements remain as challenges to be tackled in these models. Monocular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Sara Elkerdawy , Hong Zhang , Nilanjan Ray

Deep learning has emerged as a powerful tool for solving inverse problems in imaging, including computed tomography (CT). However, most approaches require paired training data with ground truth images, which can be difficult to obtain,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-25 Tatiana A. Bubba , Matteo Santacesaria , Andrea Sebastiani

Supervised learning based methods for monocular depth estimation usually require large amounts of extensively annotated training data. In the case of aerial imagery, this ground truth is particularly difficult to acquire. Therefore, in this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Max Hermann , Boitumelo Ruf , Martin Weinmann , Stefan Hinz

Without ground truth supervision, self-supervised depth estimation can be trapped in a local minimum due to the gradient-locality issue of the photometric loss. In this paper, we present a framework to enhance depth by leveraging semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Shan Lin , Yuheng Zhi , Michael C. Yip

Self-supervised monocular depth estimation (DE) is an approach to learning depth without costly depth ground truths. However, it often struggles with moving objects that violate the static scene assumption during training. To address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Jaeho Moon , Juan Luis Gonzalez Bello , Byeongjun Kwon , Munchurl Kim

Recently, patch-deformation methods have exhibited significant effectiveness in multi-view stereo owing to the deformable and expandable patches in reconstructing textureless areas. However, such methods primarily emphasize broadening the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Zhenlong Yuan , Zhidong Yang , Yujun Cai , Kuangxin Wu , Mufan Liu , Dapeng Zhang , Hao Jiang , Zhaoxin Li , Zhaoqi Wang

In deep metric learning, the Triplet Loss has emerged as a popular method to learn many computer vision and natural language processing tasks such as facial recognition, object detection, and visual-semantic embeddings. One issue that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Albert Xu , Jhih-Yi Hsieh , Bhaskar Vundurthy , Eliana Cohen , Howie Choset , Lu Li

Self-supervised monocular methods can efficiently learn depth information of weakly textured surfaces or reflective objects. However, the depth accuracy is limited due to the inherent ambiguity in monocular geometric modeling. In contrast,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-22 Xiaofeng Wang , Zheng Zhu , Guan Huang , Xu Chi , Yun Ye , Ziwei Chen , Xingang Wang

Monocular depth estimation (MDE) is a critical task to guide autonomous medical robots. However, obtaining absolute (metric) depth from an endoscopy camera in surgical scenes is difficult, which limits supervised learning of depth on real…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Hao Li , Daiwei Lu , Jesse d'Almeida , Dilara Isik , Ehsan Khodapanah Aghdam , Nick DiSanto , Ayberk Acar , Susheela Sharma , Jie Ying Wu , Robert J. Webster , Ipek Oguz

The capabilities of monocular depth estimation (MDE) models are limited by the availability of sufficient and diverse datasets. In the case of MDE models for autonomous driving, this issue is exacerbated by the linearity of the captured…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Casimir Feldmann , Niall Siegenheim , Nikolas Hars , Lovro Rabuzin , Mert Ertugrul , Luca Wolfart , Marc Pollefeys , Zuria Bauer , Martin R. Oswald

Self-supervised learning of depth has been a highly studied topic of research as it alleviates the requirement of having ground truth annotations for predicting depth. Depth is learnt as an intermediate solution to the task of view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Vinay Kaushik , Kartik Jindgar , Brejesh Lall

Edge detection (ED) remains a fundamental task in computer vision, yet its performance is often hindered by the ambiguous nature of non-edge pixels near object boundaries. The widely adopted Weighted Binary Cross-Entropy (WBCE) loss treats…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Hao Shu

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 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

Depth is a vital piece of information for autonomous vehicles to perceive obstacles. Due to the relatively low price and small size of monocular cameras, depth estimation from a single RGB image has attracted great interest in the research…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Xingshuai Dong , Matthew A. Garratt , Sreenatha G. Anavatti , Hussein A. Abbass