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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

Accurate depth estimation is crucial for 3D scene comprehension in robotics and autonomous vehicles. Fisheye cameras, known for their wide field of view, have inherent geometric benefits. However, their use in depth estimation is restricted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Guoyang Zhao , Yuxuan Liu , Weiqing Qi , Fulong Ma , Ming Liu , Jun Ma

Depth from Focus estimates depth by determining the moment of maximum focus from multiple shots at different focal distances, i.e. the Focal Stack. However, the limited sampling rate of conventional optical cameras makes it difficult to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Chenxu Jiang , Mingyuan Lin , Chi Zhang , Zhenghai Wang , Lei Yu

We aim to generate high resolution shallow depth-of-field (DoF) images from a single all-in-focus image with controllable focal distance and aperture size. To achieve this, we propose a novel neural network model comprised of a depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-19 Lijun Wang , Xiaohui Shen , Jianming Zhang , Oliver Wang , Zhe Lin , Chih-Yao Hsieh , Sarah Kong , Huchuan Lu

Modern cameras with large apertures often suffer from a shallow depth of field, resulting in blurry images of objects outside the focal plane. This limitation is particularly problematic for fixed-focus cameras, such as those used in smart…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Xinge Yang , Chuong Nguyen , Wenbin Wang , Kaizhang Kang , Wolfgang Heidrich , Xiaoxing Li

Learning depth from a single image, as an important issue in scene understanding, has attracted a lot of attention in the past decade. The accuracy of the depth estimation has been improved from conditional Markov random fields,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-01 Lei He , Guanghui Wang , Zhanyi Hu

Monocular depth estimation has drawn widespread attention from the vision community due to its broad applications. In this paper, we propose a novel physics (geometry)-driven deep learning framework for monocular depth estimation by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Shuwei Shao , Zhongcai Pei , Weihai Chen , Xingming Wu , Zhengguo Li

We present a method to infer a dense depth map from a color image and associated sparse depth measurements. Our main contribution lies in the design of an annealing process for determining co-visibility (occlusions, disocclusions) and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Alex Wong , Xiaohan Fei , Byung-Woo Hong , Stefano Soatto

Recent camera-based 3D object detection is limited by the precision of transforming from image to 3D feature spaces, as well as the accuracy of object localization within the 3D space. This paper aims to address such a fundamental problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Chaoqun Wang , Yiran Qin , Zijian Kang , Ningning Ma , Ruimao Zhang

Depth estimation from images serves as the fundamental step of 3D perception for autonomous driving and is an economical alternative to expensive depth sensors like LiDAR. The temporal photometric constraints enables self-supervised depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Yi Wei , Linqing Zhao , Wenzhao Zheng , Zheng Zhu , Yongming Rao , Guan Huang , Jiwen Lu , Jie Zhou

Depth completion, aiming to predict dense depth maps from sparse depth measurements, plays a crucial role in many computer vision related applications. Deep learning approaches have demonstrated overwhelming success in this task. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Yu Cai , Tianyu Shen , Shi-Sheng Huang , Hua Huang

The perception of transparent objects is one of the well-known challenges in computer vision. Conventional depth sensors have difficulty in sensing the depth of transparent objects due to refraction and reflection of light. Previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Xianghui Fan , Zhaoyu Chen , Mengyang Pan , Anping Deng , Hang Yang

We consider the problem of depth estimation from a single monocular image in this work. It is a challenging task as no reliable depth cues are available, e.g., stereo correspondences, motions, etc. Previous efforts have been focusing on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-10-01 Fayao Liu , Chunhua Shen , Guosheng Lin

Deep neural networks have been very successful in image estimation applications such as compressive-sensing and image restoration, as a means to estimate images from partial, blurry, or otherwise degraded measurements. These networks are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-30 Zhihao Xia , Ayan Chakrabarti

In this paper, we tackle the problem of generating a novel image from an arbitrary viewpoint given a single frame as input. While existing methods operating in this setup aim at predicting the target view depth map to guide the synthesis,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Giovanni Minelli , Matteo Poggi , Samuele Salti

Depth estimation aims to predict dense depth maps. In autonomous driving scenes, sparsity of annotations makes the task challenging. Supervised models produce concave objects due to insufficient structural information. They overfit to valid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Jiaqi Li , Yiran Wang , Zihao Huang , Jinghong Zheng , Ke Xian , Zhiguo Cao , Jianming Zhang

The Depth from Defocus (DFD) imaging technique for measuring the size and number concentration of particles in a dispersed two-phase flow has up to now been restricted to relatively sparse particle densities and to identifying only…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-04-01 Rixin Xua , Zuojie Huanga , Wenchao Gonga , Wu Zhoua , Cameron Tropea

In recent years, the usefulness of 3D shape estimation is being realized in microscopic or close-range imaging, as the 3D information can further be used in various applications. Due to limited depth of field at such small distances, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-01-02 Arnav Bhavsar

In the current monocular depth research, the dominant approach is to employ unsupervised training on large datasets, driven by warped photometric consistency. Such approaches lack robustness and are unable to generalize to challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Jaime Spencer , Richard Bowden , Simon Hadfield

Depth estimation from light field (LF) images is a fundamental step for numerous applications. Recently, learning-based methods have achieved higher accuracy and efficiency than the traditional methods. However, it is costly to obtain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Shansi Zhang , Nan Meng , Edmund Y. Lam