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We present a novel algorithm for self-supervised monocular depth completion. Our approach is based on training a neural network that requires only sparse depth measurements and corresponding monocular video sequences without dense depth…

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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…

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Monocular depth estimation (MDE) is a critical component of many medical tracking and mapping algorithms, particularly from endoscopic or laparoscopic video. However, because ground truth depth maps cannot be acquired from real patient…

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Obstacle Detection is a central problem for any robotic system, and critical for autonomous systems that travel at high speeds in unpredictable environment. This is often achieved through scene depth estimation, by various means. When fast…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-07-22 Michele Mancini , Gabriele Costante , Paolo Valigi , Thomas A. Ciarfuglia

Recently, learning-based robotic navigation systems have gained extensive research attention and made significant progress. However, the diversity of open-world scenarios poses a major challenge for the generalization of such systems to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Xingwu Ji , Haochen Niu , Dexin Duan , Rendong Ying , Fei Wen , Peilin Liu

Good quality reconstruction and comprehension of a scene rely on 3D estimation methods. The 3D information was usually obtained from images by stereo-photogrammetry, but deep learning has recently provided us with excellent results for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Rémy Leroy , Pauline Trouvé-Peloux , Frédéric Champagnat , Bertrand Le Saux , Marcela Carvalho

Despite significant progress in monocular depth estimation in the wild, recent state-of-the-art methods cannot be used to recover accurate 3D scene shape due to an unknown depth shift induced by shift-invariant reconstruction losses used in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Wei Yin , Jianming Zhang , Oliver Wang , Simon Niklaus , Long Mai , Simon Chen , Chunhua Shen

Self-supervised monocular depth estimation is a significant task for low-cost and efficient 3D scene perception and measurement in endoscopy. However, the variety of illumination conditions and scene features is still the primary challenges…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Liangjing Shao , Chenkang Du , Benshuang Chen , Xueli Liu , Xinrong Chen

Dense depth estimation is essential to scene-understanding for autonomous driving. However, recent self-supervised approaches on monocular videos suffer from scale-inconsistency across long sequences. Utilizing data from the ubiquitously…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Hemang Chawla , Arnav Varma , Elahe Arani , Bahram Zonooz

Monocular depth estimation is a rudimentary task in robotic perception. Recently, with the development of more accurate and robust neural network models and different types of datasets, monocular depth estimation has significantly improved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Zhichao Zheng , Henry Williams , Bruce A MacDonald

Monocular 3D lane detection is essential for autonomous driving, but challenging due to the inherent lack of explicit spatial information. Multi-modal approaches rely on expensive depth sensors, while methods incorporating fully-supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Max van den Hoven , Kishaan Jeeveswaran , Pieter Piscaer , Thijs Wensveen , Elahe Arani , Bahram Zonooz

This paper focuses on self-supervised monocular depth estimation in dynamic scenes trained on monocular videos. Existing methods jointly estimate pixel-wise depth and motion, relying mainly on an image reconstruction loss. Dynamic regions1…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Hoang Chuong Nguyen , Tianyu Wang , Jose M. Alvarez , Miaomiao Liu

Monocular depth estimation is an essential task in the computer vision community. While tremendous successful methods have obtained excellent results, most of them are computationally expensive and not applicable for real-time on-device…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Zhenyu Li , Zehui Chen , Jialei Xu , Xianming Liu , Junjun Jiang

Monocular depth estimation is an important task with rapid progress, but how to evaluate it is not fully resolved, as evidenced by a lack of standardization in existing literature and a large selection of evaluation metrics whose trade-offs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Siyang Wu , Jack Nugent , Willow Yang , Jia Deng

Estimating depth from a monocular image is an ill-posed problem: when the camera projects a 3D scene onto a 2D plane, depth information is inherently and permanently lost. Nevertheless, recent work has shown impressive results in estimating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Jagpreet Chawla , Nikhil Thakurdesai , Anuj Godase , Md Reza , David Crandall , Soon-Heung Jung

Achieving robust and accurate spatial perception under adverse weather and lighting conditions is crucial for the high-level autonomy of self-driving vehicles and robots. However, existing perception algorithms relying on the visible…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Ukcheol Shin , Jinsun Park

Monocular depth estimation is an ill-posed problem as the same 2D image can be projected from infinite 3D scenes. Although the leading algorithms in this field have reported significant improvement, they are essentially geared to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Xiaodong Yang , Zhuang Ma , Zhiyu Ji , Zhe Ren

Monocular depth estimation is an important step in many downstream tasks in machine vision. We address the topic of estimating monocular depth from defocus blur which can yield more accurate results than the semantic based depth estimation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Lahiru Wijayasingha , Homa Alemzadeh , John A. Stankovic

Robust Multi-Task Learning (MTL) is crucial for autonomous systems operating in real-world environments, where adverse weather conditions can severely degrade model performance and reliability. In this paper, we introduce RobuMTL, a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Tasneem Shaffee , Sherief Reda

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