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Self-supervised monocular depth estimation has seen significant progress in recent years, especially in outdoor environments. However, depth prediction results are not satisfying in indoor scenes where most of the existing data are captured…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Runze Li , Pan Ji , Yi Xu , Bir Bhanu

Dense and accurate depth estimation is essential for robotic manipulation, grasping, and navigation, yet currently available depth sensors are prone to errors on transparent, specular, and general non-Lambertian surfaces. To mitigate these…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Simon Dorer , Martin Büchner , Nick Heppert , Abhinav Valada

Despite significant progress made in the past few years, challenges remain for depth estimation using a single monocular image. First, it is nontrivial to train a metric-depth prediction model that can generalize well to diverse scenes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Wei Yin , Jianming Zhang , Oliver Wang , Simon Niklaus , Simon Chen , Yifan Liu , Chunhua Shen

Bokeh rendering and depth estimation share a fundamental optical connection, yet existing methods fail to fully exploit this reciprocity. Conventional bokeh pipelines rely heavily on noisy depth maps that inevitably introduce visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Hangwei Zhang , Armando Fortes , Tianyi Wei , Xingang Pan

Estimating a scene's depth to achieve collision avoidance against moving pedestrians is a crucial and fundamental problem in the robotic field. This paper proposes a novel, low complexity network architecture for fast and accurate human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Shan An , Fangru Zhou , Mei Yang , Haogang Zhu , Changhong Fu , Konstantinos A. Tsintotas

Monocular depth estimation (MDE) aims to transform an RGB image of a scene into a pixelwise depth map from the same camera view. It is fundamentally ill-posed due to missing information: any single image can have been taken from many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Dylan Auty , Krystian Mikolajczyk

The ability to accurately estimate depth information is crucial for many autonomous applications to recognize the surrounded environment and predict the depth of important objects. One of the most recently used techniques is monocular depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Ahmed Zaitoon , Hossam El Din Abd El Munim , Hazem Abbas

Estimating the 3D position and orientation of objects in the environment with a single RGB camera is a critical and challenging task for low-cost urban autonomous driving and mobile robots. Most of the existing algorithms are based on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Yuxuan Liu , Yuan Yixuan , Ming Liu

Monocular depth estimation is a highly challenging problem that is often addressed with deep neural networks. While these are able to use recognition of image features to predict reasonably looking depth maps the result often has low metric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Patrik Persson , Linn Öström , Carl Olsson

Monocular metric depth estimation (MMDE) is a core challenge in computer vision, playing a pivotal role in real-world applications that demand accurate spatial understanding. Although prior works have shown promising zero-shot performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Girish Chandar Ganesan , Yuliang Guo , Liu Ren , Xiaoming Liu

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 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

Monocular depth estimation (MDE) has widely applicable but remains highly challenging due to the inherently ill-posed nature of reconstructing 3D scenes from single 2D images. Modern Vision Foundation Models (VFMs), pre-trained on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Gongshu Wang , Zhirui Wang , Kan Yang

Modern cameras are equipped with a wide array of sensors that enable recording the geospatial context of an image. Taking advantage of this, we explore depth estimation under the assumption that the camera is geocalibrated, a problem we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Scott Workman , Hunter Blanton

Depth Estimation has wide reaching applications in the field of Computer vision such as target tracking, augmented reality, and self-driving cars. The goal of Monocular Depth Estimation is to predict the depth map, given a 2D monocular RGB…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Mayank Poddar , Akash Mishra , Mohit Kewlani , Haoyang Pei

Depth estimation is a cornerstone of 3D reconstruction and plays a vital role in minimally invasive endoscopic surgeries. However, most current depth estimation networks rely on traditional convolutional neural networks, which are limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Bojian Li , Bo Liu , Xinning Yao , Jinghua Yue , Fugen Zhou

Monocular depth estimation is the base task in computer vision. It has a tremendous development in the decade with the development of deep learning. But the boundary blur of the depth map is still a serious problem. Research finds the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Xin Yang , Qingling Chang , Xinlin Liu , Yan Cui

Accurate monocular depth estimation remains a challenging problem due to the inherent ambiguity that stems from the ill-posed nature of recovering 3D structure from a single view, where multiple plausible depth configurations can produce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Heng Wu , Qian Zhang , Guixu Zhang

360{\deg} cameras can capture complete environments in a single shot, which makes 360{\deg} imagery alluring in many computer vision tasks. However, monocular depth estimation remains a challenge for 360{\deg} data, particularly for high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Manuel Rey-Area , Mingze Yuan , Christian Richardt

Monocular depth inference is a fundamental problem for scene perception of robots. Specific robots may be equipped with a camera plus an optional depth sensor of any type and located in various scenes of different scales, whereas recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Haotian Wang , Meng Yang , Nanning Zheng