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Self-supervised monocular depth estimation (MDE) models universally suffer from the notorious edge-fattening issue. Triplet loss, as a widespread metric learning strategy, has largely succeeded in many computer vision applications. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Xingyu Chen , Ruonan Zhang , Ji Jiang , Yan Wang , Ge Li , Thomas H. Li

Monocular depth estimation and defocus estimation are two fundamental tasks in computer vision. Most existing methods treat depth estimation and defocus estimation as two separate tasks, ignoring the strong connection between them. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Renzhi He , Hualin Hong , Boya Fu , Fei Liu

Self-supervised monocular depth estimation (MDE) has gained popularity for obtaining depth predictions directly from videos. However, these methods often produce scale invariant results, unless additional training signals are provided.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Gasser Elazab , Torben Gräber , Michael Unterreiner , Olaf Hellwich

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

This paper presents a novel monocular depth estimation method, named ECFNet, for estimating high-quality monocular depth with clear edges and valid overall structure from a single RGB image. We make a thorough inquiry about the key factor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Pengzhi Li , Yikang Ding , Haohan Wang , Chengshuai Tang , Zhiheng Li

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

In this paper, we address the problem of monocular depth estimation when only a limited number of training image-depth pairs are available. To achieve a high regression accuracy, the state-of-the-art estimation methods rely on CNNs trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-07 Rongrong Ji , Ke Li , Yan Wang , Xiaoshuai Sun , Feng Guo , Xiaowei Guo , Yongjian Wu , Feiyue Huang , Jiebo Luo

Self-supervised learning has shown very promising results for monocular depth estimation. Scene structure and local details both are significant clues for high-quality depth estimation. Recent works suffer from the lack of explicit modeling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Jiaxing Yan , Hong Zhao , Penghui Bu , YuSheng Jin

This work delves into unsupervised monocular depth estimation in endoscopy, which leverages adjacent frames to establish a supervisory signal during the training phase. For many clinical applications, e.g., surgical navigation, temporally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Shuwei Shao , Zhongcai Pei , Weihai Chen , Xingming Wu , Zhong Liu

While monocular depth estimation (MDE) is an important problem in computer vision, it is difficult due to the ambiguity that results from the compression of a 3D scene into only 2 dimensions. It is common practice in the field to treat it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Dylan Auty , Krystian Mikolajczyk

Estimating accurate 3D locations of objects from monocular images is a challenging problem because of lacking depth. Previous work shows that utilizing the object's keypoint projection constraints to estimate multiple depth candidates…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Yingyan Li , Yuntao Chen , Jiawei He , Zhaoxiang Zhang

Different environments pose a great challenge to the outdoor robust visual perception for long-term autonomous driving, and the generalization of learning-based algorithms on different environments is still an open problem. Although…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Hanjiang Hu , Baoquan Yang , Zhijian Qiao , Shiqi Liu , Jiacheng Zhu , Zuxin Liu , Wenhao Ding , Ding Zhao , Hesheng Wang

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 Estimation has wide reaching applications in the field of Computer vision such as target tracking, augmented reality, and self-driving cars. The goal of Monocular Depth Estimation is to predict the depth map, given a 2D monocular RGB…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Mayank Poddar , Akash Mishra , Mohit Kewlani , Haoyang Pei

Self-supervised monocular depth estimation has seen significant progress in recent years, especially in outdoor environments. However, depth prediction results are not satisfying in indoor scenes where most of the existing data are captured…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Runze Li , Pan Ji , Yi Xu , Bir Bhanu

We propose a novel algorithm for monocular depth estimation that decomposes a metric depth map into a normalized depth map and scale features. The proposed network is composed of a shared encoder and three decoders, called G-Net, N-Net, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Jinyoung Jun , Jae-Han Lee , Chul Lee , Chang-Su Kim

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

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

Deep metric learning aims to learn features relying on the consistency or divergence of class labels. However, in monocular depth estimation, the absence of a natural definition of class poses challenges in the leveraging of deep metric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Chunpu Liu , Guanglei Yang , Wangmeng Zuo , Tianyi Zan

In recent years, self-supervised methods for monocular depth estimation has rapidly become an significant branch of depth estimation task, especially for autonomous driving applications. Despite the high overall precision achieved, current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-10 Feng Xue , Guirong Zhuo , Ziyuan Huang , Wufei Fu , Zhuoyue Wu , Marcelo H. Ang