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Metric depth estimation from visual sensors is crucial for robots to perceive, navigate, and interact with their environment. Traditional range imaging setups, such as stereo or structured light cameras, face hassles including calibration,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Blanca Lasheras-Hernandez , Klaus H. Strobl , Sergio Izquierdo , Tim Bodenmüller , Rudolph Triebel , Javier Civera

Monocular depth estimation using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) has shown impressive performance in outdoor driving scenes. However, self-supervised learning of indoor depth from monocular sequences is quite challenging for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Chao Fan , Zhenyu Yin , Yue Li , Feiqing Zhang

Depth estimation is a fundamental task in 3D computer vision, crucial for applications such as 3D reconstruction, free-viewpoint rendering, robotics, autonomous driving, and AR/VR technologies. Traditional methods relying on hardware…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Zhen Xu , Hongyu Zhou , Sida Peng , Haotong Lin , Haoyu Guo , Jiahao Shao , Peishan Yang , Qinglin Yang , Sheng Miao , Xingyi He , Yifan Wang , Yue Wang , Ruizhen Hu , Yiyi Liao , Xiaowei Zhou , Hujun Bao

In the last year, universal monocular metric depth estimation (universal MMDE) has gained considerable attention, serving as the foundation model for various multimedia tasks, such as video and image editing. Nonetheless, current approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Yihao Liu , Feng Xue , Anlong Ming , Mingshuai Zhao , Huadong Ma , Nicu Sebe

Depth estimation plays a important role in SLAM, odometry, and autonomous driving. Especially, monocular depth estimation is profitable technology because of its low cost, memory, and computation. However, it is not a sufficiently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Hyeonsoo Jang , Yeongmin Ko , Younkwan Lee , Moongu Jeon

Monocular depth estimation, enabled by self-supervised learning, is a key technique for 3D perception in computer vision. However, it faces significant challenges in real-world scenarios, which encompass adverse weather variations, motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Runze Chen , Haiyong Luo , Fang Zhao , Jingze Yu , Yupeng Jia , Juan Wang , Xuepeng Ma

Video depth estimation extends monocular prediction into the temporal domain to ensure coherence. However, existing methods often suffer from spatial blurring in fine-detail regions and temporal inconsistencies. We argue that current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Yuecheng Liu , Junda Cheng , Longliang Liu , Wenjing Liao , Hanrui Cheng , Yuzhou Wang , Xin Yang

We present an algorithm for estimating consistent dense depth maps and camera poses from a monocular video. We integrate a learning-based depth prior, in the form of a convolutional neural network trained for single-image depth estimation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Johannes Kopf , Xuejian Rong , Jia-Bin Huang

In this study, we address the challenge of 3D scene structure recovery from monocular depth estimation. While traditional depth estimation methods leverage labeled datasets to directly predict absolute depth, recent advancements advocate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Chi Zhang , Wei Yin , Gang Yu , Zhibin Wang , Tao Chen , Bin Fu , Joey Tianyi Zhou , Chunhua Shen

Accurate depth estimation is at the core of many applications in computer graphics, vision, and robotics. Current state-of-the-art monocular depth estimators, trained on extensive datasets, generalize well but lack 3D consistency needed for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Laura Fink , Linus Franke , Bernhard Egger , Joachim Keinert , Marc Stamminger

Monocular depth estimation is crucial for tracking and reconstruction algorithms, particularly in the context of surgical videos. However, the inherent challenges in directly obtaining ground truth depth maps during surgery render…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Ange Lou , Yamin Li , Yike Zhang , Jack Noble

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

Self-supervised monocular depth estimation has been widely investigated to estimate depth images and relative poses from RGB images. This framework is attractive for researchers because the depth and pose networks can be trained from just…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Noriaki Hirose , Kosuke Tahara

As processing power has become more available, more human-like artificial intelligences are created to solve image processing tasks that we are inherently good at. As such we propose a model that estimates depth from a monocular image. Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Fabian Truetsch , Alfred Schöttl

Scale-aware monocular depth estimation poses a significant challenge in computer-aided endoscopic navigation. However, existing depth estimation methods that do not consider the geometric priors struggle to learn the absolute scale from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Ruofeng Wei , Bin Li , Kai Chen , Yiyao Ma , Yunhui Liu , Qi Dou

Monocular depth estimation in endoscopy videos can enable assistive and robotic surgery to obtain better coverage of the organ and detection of various health issues. Despite promising progress on mainstream, natural image depth estimation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Akshay Paruchuri , Samuel Ehrenstein , Shuxian Wang , Inbar Fried , Stephen M. Pizer , Marc Niethammer , Roni Sengupta

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

Monocular depth estimation aims at predicting depth from a single image or video. Recently, self-supervised methods draw much attention since they are free of depth annotations and achieve impressive performance on several daytime…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-16 Kun Wang , Zhenyu Zhang , Zhiqiang Yan , Xiang Li , Baobei Xu , Jun Li , Jian Yang

Monocular omnidirectional depth estimation is receiving considerable research attention due to its broad applications for sensing 360{\deg} surroundings. Existing approaches in this field suffer from limitations in recovering small object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Masum Shah Junayed , Arezoo Sadeghzadeh , Md Baharul Islam , Lai-Kuan Wong , Tarkan Aydin

3D object detection is an important capability needed in various practical applications such as driver assistance systems. Monocular 3D detection, as a representative general setting among image-based approaches, provides a more economical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Tai Wang , Xinge Zhu , Jiangmiao Pang , Dahua Lin