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Retrieving the missing dimension information in acoustic images from 2D forward-looking sonar is a well-known problem in the field of underwater robotics. There are works attempting to retrieve 3D information from a single image which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Yusheng Wang , Yonghoon Ji , Hiroshi Tsuchiya , Hajime Asama , Atsushi Yamashita

Supervised learning depth estimation methods can achieve good performance when trained on high-quality ground-truth, like LiDAR data. However, LiDAR can only generate sparse 3D maps which causes losing information. Obtaining high-quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-14 Hao Xing , Yifan Cao , Maximilian Biber , Mingchuan Zhou , Darius Burschka

We propose SUB-Depth, a universal multi-task training framework for self-supervised monocular depth estimation (SDE). Depth models trained with SUB-Depth outperform the same models trained in a standard single-task SDE framework. By…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Hang Zhou , Sarah Taylor , David Greenwood , Michal Mackiewicz

Monocular depth estimation (MDE) aims to infer per-pixel depth from a single RGB image. While diffusion models have advanced MDE with impressive generalization, they often exhibit limitations in accurately reconstructing far-range regions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Mingxia Zhan , Li Zhang , Yingjie Wang , Xiaomeng Chu , Beibei Wang , Yanyong Zhang

Scene depth estimation from stereo and monocular imagery is critical for extracting 3D information for downstream tasks such as scene understanding. Recently, learning-based methods for depth estimation have received much attention due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Zhaoshuo Li , Nathan Drenkow , Hao Ding , Andy S. Ding , Alexander Lu , Francis X. Creighton , Russell H. Taylor , Mathias Unberath

Depth Estimation plays a crucial role in recent applications in robotics, autonomous vehicles, and augmented reality. These scenarios commonly operate under constraints imposed by computational power. Stereo image pairs offer an effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Alexandre Lopes , Roberto Souza , Helio Pedrini

Nowadays, the majority of state of the art monocular depth estimation techniques are based on supervised deep learning models. However, collecting RGB images with associated depth maps is a very time consuming procedure. Therefore, recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Andrea Pilzer , Stéphane Lathuilière , Nicu Sebe , Elisa Ricci

We introduce a new method that efficiently computes a set of viewpoints and trajectories for high-quality 3D reconstructions in outdoor environments. Our goal is to automatically explore an unknown area, and obtain a complete 3D scan of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-19 Benjamin Hepp , Matthias Nießner , Otmar Hilliges

Monocular depth estimation (MDE) has widely applicable but remains highly challenging due to the inherently ill-posed nature of reconstructing 3D scenes from single 2D images. Modern Vision Foundation Models (VFMs), pre-trained on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Gongshu Wang , Zhirui Wang , Kan Yang

Inter-person occlusion and depth ambiguity make estimating the 3D poses of monocular multiple persons as camera-centric coordinates a challenging problem. Typical top-down frameworks suffer from high computational redundancy with an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Juze Zhang , Jingya Wang , Ye Shi , Fei Gao , Lan Xu , Jingyi Yu

Scale ambiguity is a fundamental problem in monocular visual odometry. Typical solutions include loop closure detection and environment information mining. For applications like self-driving cars, loop closure is not always available, hence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Rui Tian , Yunzhou Zhang , Delong Zhu , Shiwen Liang , Sonya Coleman , Dermot Kerr

Depth estimation is an essential component in understanding the 3D geometry of a scene, with numerous applications in urban and indoor settings. These scenes are characterized by a prevalence of human made structures, which in most of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-03 Mattia Rossi , Mireille El Gheche , Andreas Kuhn , Pascal Frossard

Self-supervised depth estimation, which solely requires monocular image sequence as input, has become increasingly popular and promising in recent years. Current research primarily focuses on enhancing the prediction accuracy of the models.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Xi Zhang , Yaru Xue , Shaocheng Jia , Xin Pei

The goal of perception for autonomous vehicles is to extract semantic representations from multiple sensors and fuse these representations into a single "bird's-eye-view" coordinate frame for consumption by motion planning. We propose a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Jonah Philion , Sanja Fidler

This paper presents a novel self-supervised two-frame multi-camera metric depth estimation network, termed M${^2}$Depth, which is designed to predict reliable scale-aware surrounding depth in autonomous driving. Unlike the previous works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Yingshuang Zou , Yikang Ding , Xi Qiu , Haoqian Wang , Haotian Zhang

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 monocular depth estimation has received widespread attention because of its capability to train without ground truth. In real-world scenarios, the images may be blurry or noisy due to the influence of weather conditions and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Runze Liu , Dongchen Zhu , Guanghui Zhang , Yue Xu , Wenjun Shi , Xiaolin Zhang , Lei Wang , Jiamao Li

Depth estimation is a critical topic for robotics and vision-related tasks. In monocular depth estimation, in comparison with supervised learning that requires expensive ground truth labeling, self-supervised methods possess great potential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Jinchang Zhang , Praveen Kumar Reddy , Xue-Iuan Wong , Yiannis Aloimonos , Guoyu Lu

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-04 Fangchang Ma , Guilherme Venturelli Cavalheiro , Sertac Karaman

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