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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

Supervised learning based methods for monocular depth estimation usually require large amounts of extensively annotated training data. In the case of aerial imagery, this ground truth is particularly difficult to acquire. Therefore, in this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Max Hermann , Boitumelo Ruf , Martin Weinmann , Stefan Hinz

Solving depth estimation with monocular cameras enables the possibility of widespread use of cameras as low-cost depth estimation sensors in applications such as autonomous driving and robotics. However, learning such a scalable depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Bin Cheng , Inderjot Singh Saggu , Raunak Shah , Gaurav Bansal , Dinesh Bharadia

Self-supervised monocular depth estimation aims to infer depth information without relying on labeled data. However, the lack of labeled information poses a significant challenge to the model's representation, limiting its ability to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Guodong Sun , Junjie Liu , Mingxuan Liu , Moyun Liu , Yang Zhang

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

Depth information is important for autonomous systems to perceive environments and estimate their own state. Traditional depth estimation methods, like structure from motion and stereo vision matching, are built on feature correspondences…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-06 Chaoqiang Zhao , Qiyu Sun , Chongzhen Zhang , Yang Tang , Feng Qian

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

Self-supervised monocular depth estimation (SSMDE) has gained attention in the field of deep learning as it estimates depth without requiring ground truth depth maps. This approach typically uses a photometric consistency loss between a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Wonhyeok Choi , Kyumin Hwang , Minwoo Choi , Kiljoon Han , Wonjoon Choi , Mingyu Shin , Sunghoon Im

Despite advancements in self-supervised monocular depth estimation, challenges persist in dynamic scenarios due to the dependence on assumptions about a static world. In this paper, we present Manydepth2, to achieve precise depth estimation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Kaichen Zhou , Jia-Wang Bian , Jian-Qing Zheng , Jiaxing Zhong , Qian Xie , Niki Trigoni , Andrew Markham

Self-supervised monocular depth estimation has shown impressive results in static scenes. It relies on the multi-view consistency assumption for training networks, however, that is violated in dynamic object regions and occlusions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Libo Sun , Jia-Wang Bian , Huangying Zhan , Wei Yin , Ian Reid , Chunhua Shen

Self-supervised learning of depth has been a highly studied topic of research as it alleviates the requirement of having ground truth annotations for predicting depth. Depth is learnt as an intermediate solution to the task of view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Vinay Kaushik , Kartik Jindgar , Brejesh Lall

Self-supervised monocular depth estimation has emerged as a promising approach since it does not rely on labeled training data. Most methods combine convolution and Transformer to model long-distance dependencies to estimate depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Xuezhi Xiang , Yao Wang , Lei Zhang , Denis Ombati , Himaloy Himu , Xiantong Zhen

Despite recent improvement of supervised monocular depth estimation, the lack of high quality pixel-wise ground truth annotations has become a major hurdle for further progress. In this work, we propose a new unsupervised depth estimation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Huan Liu , Junsong Yuan , Chen Wang , Jun Chen

Self-supervised monocular depth estimation has been widely studied, owing to its practical importance and recent promising improvements. However, most works suffer from limited supervision of photometric consistency, especially in weak…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Hyunyoung Jung , Eunhyeok Park , Sungjoo Yoo

The field of self-supervised monocular depth estimation has seen huge advancements in recent years. Most methods assume stereo data is available during training but usually under-utilize it and only treat it as a reference signal. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-02 Matan Goldman , Tal Hassner , Shai Avidan

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

Existing methods for scale-invariant monocular depth estimation (SI MDE) often struggle due to the complexity of the task, and limited and non-diverse datasets, hindering generalizability in real-world scenarios. This is while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-14 S. Mahdi H. Miangoleh , Mahesh Reddy , Yağız Aksoy

Depth estimation from a single image is an active research topic in computer vision. The most accurate approaches are based on fully supervised learning models, which rely on a large amount of dense and high-resolution (HR) ground-truth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Jialei Xu , Yuanchao Bai , Xianming Liu , Junjun Jiang , Xiangyang Ji

Monocular depth estimation has recently progressed beyond ordinal depth to provide metric depth predictions. However, its reliability in underwater environments remains limited due to light attenuation and scattering, color distortion,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Zijie Cai , Christopher Metzler

Monocular depth estimation (MDE) plays a pivotal role in various computer vision applications, such as robotics, augmented reality, and autonomous driving. Despite recent advancements, existing methods often fail to meet key requirements…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Andrii Litvynchuk , Ivan Livinsky , Anand Ravi , Nima Kalantari , Andrii Tsarov