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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

Recently, self-supervised learning technology has been applied to calculate depth and ego-motion from monocular videos, achieving remarkable performance in autonomous driving scenarios. One widely adopted assumption of depth and ego-motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Shuwei Shao , Zhongcai Pei , Weihai Chen , Wentao Zhu , Xingming Wu , Dianmin Sun , Baochang Zhang

We present a generalised self-supervised learning approach for monocular estimation of the real depth across scenes with diverse depth ranges from 1--100s of meters. Existing supervised methods for monocular depth estimation require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-15 Mertalp Ocal , Armin Mustafa

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

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

Previous methods on estimating detailed human depth often require supervised training with `ground truth' depth data. This paper presents a self-supervised method that can be trained on YouTube videos without known depth, which makes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-08 Feitong Tan , Hao Zhu , Zhaopeng Cui , Siyu Zhu , Marc Pollefeys , Ping Tan

Deep learning techniques have enabled rapid progress in monocular depth estimation, but their quality is limited by the ill-posed nature of the problem and the scarcity of high quality datasets. We estimate depth from a single camera by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Rahul Garg , Neal Wadhwa , Sameer Ansari , Jonathan T. Barron

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

Unsupervised depth learning takes the appearance difference between a target view and a view synthesized from its adjacent frame as supervisory signal. Since the supervisory signal only comes from images themselves, the resolution of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Junsheng Zhou , Yuwang Wang , Kaihuai Qin , Wenjun Zeng

Depth estimation is a crucial step for image-guided intervention in robotic surgery and laparoscopic imaging system. Since per-pixel depth ground truth is difficult to acquire for laparoscopic image data, it is rarely possible to apply…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Baoru Huang , Jian-Qing Zheng , Anh Nguyen , Chi Xu , Ioannis Gkouzionis , Kunal Vyas , David Tuch , Stamatia Giannarou , Daniel S. Elson

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

Monocular depth estimation and ego-motion estimation are significant tasks for scene perception and navigation in stable, accurate and efficient robot-assisted endoscopy. To tackle lighting variations and sparse textures in endoscopic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Liangjing Shao , Linxin Bai , Chenkang Du , Xinrong Chen

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

Self-supervised deep learning methods have leveraged stereo images for training monocular depth estimation. Although these methods show strong results on outdoor datasets such as KITTI, they do not match performance of supervised methods on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Benjamin Keltjens , Tom van Dijk , Guido de Croon

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

Self-supervised learning of depth map prediction and motion estimation from monocular video sequences is of vital importance -- since it realizes a broad range of tasks in robotics and autonomous vehicles. A large number of research efforts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Ue-Hwan Kim , Jong-Hwan Kim

Self-supervised monocular depth estimation approaches either ignore independently moving objects in the scene or need a separate segmentation step to identify them. We propose MonoDepthSeg to jointly estimate depth and segment moving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Sadra Safadoust , Fatma Güney

Self-supervised monocular depth estimation (SSMDE) aims to predict the dense depth map of a monocular image, by learning depth from RGB image sequences, eliminating the need for ground-truth depth labels. Although this approach simplifies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Wonhyeok Choi , Kyumin Hwang , Wei Peng , Minwoo Choi , Sunghoon Im

This paper proposes to use keypoints as a self-supervision clue for learning depth map estimation from a collection of input images. As ground truth depth from real images is difficult to obtain, there are many unsupervised and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-09 Kristijan Bartol , David Bojanic , Tomislav Petkovic , Tomislav Pribanic , Yago Diez Donoso

Depth completion is an important vision task, and many efforts have been made to enhance the quality of depth maps from sparse depth measurements. Despite significant advances, training these models to recover dense depth from sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Rizhao Fan , Zhigen Li , Heping Li , Ning An