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Accurate monocular depth estimation is crucial for 3D scene understanding, but existing methods often blur depth at object boundaries, introducing spurious intermediate 3D points. While achieving sharp edges usually requires very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Aurélien Cecille , Stefan Duffner , Franck Davoine , Rémi Agier , Thibault Neveu

Monocular depth estimation is very challenging because clues to the exact depth are incomplete in a single RGB image. To overcome the limitation, deep neural networks rely on various visual hints such as size, shade, and texture extracted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Kyuhong Shim , Jiyoung Kim , Gusang Lee , Byonghyo Shim

Large-scale pre-trained vision models are becoming increasingly prevalent, offering expressive and generalizable visual representations that benefit various downstream tasks. Recent studies on the emergent properties of these models have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Duolikun Danier , Mehmet Aygün , Changjian Li , Hakan Bilen , Oisin Mac Aodha

Monocular 3D object detection is a fundamental but very important task to many applications including autonomous driving, robotic grasping and augmented reality. Existing leading methods tend to estimate the depth of the input image first,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Han Sun , Zhaoxin Fan , Zhenbo Song , Zhicheng Wang , Kejian Wu , Jianfeng Lu

Monocular Depth Estimation (MDE) is a pivotal component of vision-based Autonomous Driving (AD) systems, enabling vehicles to estimate the depth of surrounding objects using a single camera image. This estimation guides essential driving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Ce Zhou , Qiben Yan , Daniel Kent , Guangjing Wang , Weikang Ding , Ziqi Zhang , Hayder Radha

Depth-aware video panoptic segmentation tackles the inverse projection problem of restoring panoptic 3D point clouds from video sequences, where the 3D points are augmented with semantic classes and temporally consistent instance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Andra Petrovai , Sergiu Nedevschi

Deep learning has substantially boosted the performance of Monocular Depth Estimation (MDE), a critical component in fully vision-based autonomous driving (AD) systems (e.g., Tesla and Toyota). In this work, we develop an attack against…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Zhiyuan Cheng , James Liang , Hongjun Choi , Guanhong Tao , Zhiwen Cao , Dongfang Liu , Xiangyu Zhang

Estimating depth from single RGB images and videos is of widespread interest due to its applications in many areas, including autonomous driving, 3D reconstruction, digital entertainment, and robotics. More than 500 deep learning-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Uchitha Rajapaksha , Ferdous Sohel , Hamid Laga , Dean Diepeveen , Mohammed Bennamoun

Accurate monocular metric depth estimation (MMDE) is crucial to solving downstream tasks in 3D perception and modeling. However, the remarkable accuracy of recent MMDE methods is confined to their training domains. These methods fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Luigi Piccinelli , Christos Sakaridis , Yung-Hsu Yang , Mattia Segu , Siyuan Li , Wim Abbeloos , Luc Van Gool

Accurate depth estimation is at the core of many applications in computer graphics, vision, and robotics. Current state-of-the-art monocular depth estimators, trained on extensive datasets, generalize well but lack 3D consistency needed for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Laura Fink , Linus Franke , Bernhard Egger , Joachim Keinert , Marc Stamminger

Self-supervised monocular depth estimation networks are trained to predict scene depth using nearby frames as a supervision signal during training. However, for many applications, sequence information in the form of video frames is also…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Jamie Watson , Oisin Mac Aodha , Victor Prisacariu , Gabriel Brostow , Michael Firman

Indoor monocular depth estimation has attracted increasing research interest. Most previous works have been focusing on methodology, primarily experimenting with NYU-Depth-V2 (NYUv2) Dataset, and only concentrated on the overall performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Cho-Ying Wu , Quankai Gao , Chin-Cheng Hsu , Te-Lin Wu , Jing-Wen Chen , Ulrich Neumann

Monocular Depth Estimation (MDE) is a fundamental problem in computer vision with numerous applications. Recently, LIDAR-supervised methods have achieved remarkable per-pixel depth accuracy in outdoor scenes. However, significant errors are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Lior Talker , Aviad Cohen , Erez Yosef , Alexandra Dana , Michael Dinerstein

We propose MAMo, a novel memory and attention frame-work for monocular video depth estimation. MAMo can augment and improve any single-image depth estimation networks into video depth estimation models, enabling them to take advantage of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Rajeev Yasarla , Hong Cai , Jisoo Jeong , Yunxiao Shi , Risheek Garrepalli , Fatih Porikli

Monocular depth estimation aims at predicting depth from a single image or video. Recently, self-supervised methods draw much attention since they are free of depth annotations and achieve impressive performance on several daytime…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-16 Kun Wang , Zhenyu Zhang , Zhiqiang Yan , Xiang Li , Baobei Xu , Jun Li , Jian Yang

Depth estimation is one of the key technologies for realizing 3D perception in unmanned systems. Monocular depth estimation has been widely researched because of its low-cost advantage, but the existing methods face the challenges of poor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Chang Liu , Juan Li , Sheng Zhang , Chang Liu , Jie Li , Xu Zhang

As an inherently ill-posed problem, depth estimation from single images is the most challenging part of monocular 3D object detection (M3OD). Many existing methods rely on preconceived assumptions to bridge the missing spatial information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Zhuoling Li , Zhan Qu , Yang Zhou , Jianzhuang Liu , Haoqian Wang , Lihui Jiang

Monocular depth estimation can play an important role in addressing the issue of deriving scene geometry from 2D images. It has been used in a variety of industries, including robots, self-driving cars, scene comprehension, 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Ruilin Ma , Shiyao Chen , Qin Zhang

Depth estimation plays a pivotal role in advancing human-robot interactions, especially in indoor environments where accurate 3D scene reconstruction is essential for tasks like navigation and object handling. Monocular depth estimation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Siddiqui Muhammad Yasir , Hyunsik Ahn

State-of-the-art self-supervised learning approaches for monocular depth estimation usually suffer from scale ambiguity. They do not generalize well when applied on distance estimation for complex projection models such as in fisheye and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Varun Ravi Kumar , Marvin Klingner , Senthil Yogamani , Stefan Milz , Tim Fingscheidt , Patrick Maeder