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Monocular depth estimation is the base task in computer vision. It has a tremendous development in the decade with the development of deep learning. But the boundary blur of the depth map is still a serious problem. Research finds the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Xin Yang , Qingling Chang , Xinlin Liu , Yan Cui

Estimating depth from a single 2D image is a challenging task due to the lack of stereo or multi-view data, which are typically required for depth perception. In state-of-the-art architectures, the main challenge is to efficiently capture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Dabbrata Das , Argho Deb Das , Farhan Sadaf

Monocular depth estimation (MDE), inferring pixel-level depths in single RGB images from a monocular camera, plays a crucial and pivotal role in a variety of AI applications demanding a three-dimensional (3D) topographical scene. In the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Mingyu Sung , Hyeonmin Choe , Il-Min Kim , Sangseok Yun , Jae Mo Kang

Monocular metric depth estimation (MMDE) is a crucial task to solve for indoor scene reconstruction on edge devices. Despite this importance, existing models are sensitive to factors such as boundary frequency of objects in the scene and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Sanghyun Byun , Jacob Song , Woo Seong Chung

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

Dense depth estimation from a single image is a key problem in computer vision, with exciting applications in a multitude of robotic tasks. Initially viewed as a direct regression problem, requiring annotated labels as supervision at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Vitor Guizilini , Jie Li , Rares Ambrus , Sudeep Pillai , Adrien Gaidon

Monocular Depth Estimation (MDE) is performed to produce 3D information that can be used in downstream tasks such as those related to on-board perception for Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) or driver assistance. Therefore, a relevant arising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Akhil Gurram , Antonio M. Lopez

Monocular depth estimation has become one of the most studied applications in computer vision, where the most accurate approaches are based on fully supervised learning models. However, the acquisition of accurate and large ground truth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Adrian Johnston , Gustavo Carneiro

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…

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

Monocular depth estimation (MDE) has been widely adopted in the perception systems of autonomous vehicles and mobile robots. However, existing approaches often struggle to maintain temporal consistency in depth estimation across consecutive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Leezy Han , Seunggyu Kim , Dongseok Shim , Hyeonbeom Lee

In the field of monocular depth estimation (MDE), many models with excellent zero-shot performance in general scenes emerge recently. However, these methods often fail in predicting non-Lambertian surfaces, such as transparent or mirror…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Junrui Zhang , Jiaqi Li , Yachuan Huang , Yiran Wang , Jinghong Zheng , Liao Shen , Zhiguo Cao

Monocular depth estimation plays a critical role in various computer vision and robotics applications such as localization, mapping, and 3D object detection. Recently, learning-based algorithms achieve huge success in depth estimation by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Dongseok Shim , H. Jin Kim

Occlusion Boundary Estimation (OBE) identifies boundaries arising from both inter-object occlusions and self-occlusion within individual objects. This task is closely related to Monocular Depth Estimation (MDE), which infers depth from a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Lintao Xu , Yinghao Wang , Chaohui Wang

Monocular depth estimation (MDE) plays a crucial role in enabling spatially-aware applications in Ultra-low-power (ULP) Internet-of-Things (IoT) platforms. However, the limited number of parameters of Deep Neural Networks for the MDE task,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Davide Nadalini , Manuele Rusci , Elia Cereda , Luca Benini , Francesco Conti , Daniele Palossi

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

Monocular depth estimation (MDE) in the self-supervised scenario has emerged as a promising method as it refrains from the requirement of ground truth depth. Despite continuous efforts, MDE is still sensitive to scale changes especially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Peizhe Jiang , Wei Yang , Xiaoqing Ye , Xiao Tan , Meng Wu

Deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) have achieved great success in monocular depth estimation (MDE). However, few existing works take the contributions for MDE of different levels feature maps into account, leading to inaccurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Yifang Xu , Chenglei Peng , Ming Li , Yang Li , Sidan Du

Estimating depth from a single image is a challenging visual task. Compared to relative depth estimation, metric depth estimation attracts more attention due to its practical physical significance and critical applications in real-life…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Ruijie Zhu , Chuxin Wang , Ziyang Song , Li Liu , Tianzhu Zhang , Yongdong Zhang

We present a novel unsupervised learning framework for single view depth estimation using monocular videos. It is well known in 3D vision that enlarging the baseline can increase the depth estimation accuracy, and jointly optimizing a set…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Lipu Zhou , Jiamin Ye , Montiel Abello , Shengze Wang , Michael Kaess