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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

A single color image can contain many cues informative towards different aspects of local geometric structure. We approach the problem of monocular depth estimation by using a neural network to produce a mid-level representation that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-08 Ayan Chakrabarti , Jingyu Shao , Gregory Shakhnarovich

Monocular depth estimation (MDE) is inherently ambiguous, as a given image may result from many different 3D scenes and vice versa. To resolve this ambiguity, an MDE system must make assumptions about the most likely 3D scenes for a given…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Dylan Auty , Krystian Mikolajczyk

Effectively measuring and modeling the reliability of a trained model is essential to the real-world deployment of monocular depth estimation (MDE) models. However, the intrinsic ill-posedness and ordinal-sensitive nature of MDE pose major…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Mochu Xiang , Jing Zhang , Nick Barnes , Yuchao Dai

In this paper we consider the problem of single monocular image depth estimation. It is a challenging problem due to its ill-posedness nature and has found wide application in industry. Previous efforts belongs roughly to two families:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-16 Yiran Wu , Sihao Ying , Lianmin Zheng

Learning depth from a single image, as an important issue in scene understanding, has attracted a lot of attention in the past decade. The accuracy of the depth estimation has been improved from conditional Markov random fields,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-01 Lei He , Guanghui Wang , Zhanyi Hu

Endoscopic depth estimation is a critical technology for improving the safety and precision of minimally invasive surgery. It has attracted considerable attention from researchers in medical imaging, computer vision, and robotics. Over the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Ke Niu , Zeyun Liu , Xue Feng , Heng Li , Qika Lin , Kaize Shi

This paper reports a new continuous 3D loss function for learning depth from monocular images. The dense depth prediction from a monocular image is supervised using sparse LIDAR points, which enables us to leverage available open source…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Minghan Zhu , Maani Ghaffari , Yuanxin Zhong , Pingping Lu , Zhong Cao , Ryan M. Eustice , Huei Peng

Depth estimation from single monocular images is a key component of scene understanding and has benefited largely from deep convolutional neural networks (CNN) recently. In this article, we take advantage of the recent deep residual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-14 Yuanzhouhan Cao , Zifeng Wu , Chunhua Shen

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

Recent advances in monocular depth estimation methods (MDE) and their improved accuracy open new possibilities for their applications. In this paper, we investigate how monocular depth estimates can be used for relative pose estimation. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Yaqing Ding , Viktor Kocur , Václav Vávra , Zuzana Berger Haladová , Jian Yang , Torsten Sattler , Zuzana Kukelova

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

Single-view depth estimation refers to the ability to derive three-dimensional information per pixel from a single two-dimensional image. Single-view depth estimation is an ill-posed problem because there are multiple depth solutions that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Javier Rodriguez-Puigvert

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

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 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

Monocular depth estimation in the wild inherently predicts depth up to an unknown scale. To resolve scale ambiguity issue, we present a learning algorithm that leverages monocular simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Jaehoon Choi , Dongki Jung , Yonghan Lee , Deokhwa Kim , Dinesh Manocha , Donghwan Lee

In this paper, we tackle the problem of estimating the depth of a scene from a monocular video sequence. In particular, we handle challenging scenarios, such as non-translational camera motion and dynamic scenes, where traditional structure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-11-20 Miaomiao Liu , Mathieu Salzmann , Xuming He

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

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