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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

We present a novel approach for estimating depth from a monocular camera as it moves through complex and crowded indoor environments, e.g., a department store or a metro station. Our approach predicts absolute scale depth maps over the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Dongki Jung , Jaehoon Choi , Yonghan Lee , Deokhwa Kim , Changick Kim , Dinesh Manocha , Donghwan Lee

Depth cues have been proved very useful in various computer vision and robotic tasks. This paper addresses the problem of monocular depth estimation from a single still image. Inspired by the effectiveness of recent works on multi-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-05 Dan Xu , Elisa Ricci , Wanli Ouyang , Xiaogang Wang , Nicu Sebe

In this paper, we present a fast monocular depth estimation method for enabling 3D perception capabilities of low-cost underwater robots. We formulate a novel end-to-end deep visual learning pipeline named UDepth, which incorporates domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Boxiao Yu , Jiayi Wu , Md Jahidul Islam

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

Accurate stereo depth estimation plays a critical role in various 3D tasks in both indoor and outdoor environments. Recently, learning-based multi-view stereo methods have demonstrated competitive performance with a limited number of views.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Uday Kusupati , Shuo Cheng , Rui Chen , Hao Su

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

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

Neural networks have shown great success in extracting geometric information from color images. Especially, monocular depth estimation networks are increasingly reliable in real-world scenes. In this work we investigate the applicability of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Dominik Engel , Sebastian Hartwig , Timo Ropinski

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Jaehoon Choi , Dongki Jung , Yonghan Lee , Deokhwa Kim , Dinesh Manocha , Donghwan Lee

Recovering the scene depth from a single image is an ill-posed problem that requires additional priors, often referred to as monocular depth cues, to disambiguate different 3D interpretations. In recent works, those priors have been learned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Lam Huynh , Phong Nguyen-Ha , Jiri Matas , Esa Rahtu , Janne Heikkila

Estimating the distance to objects is crucial for autonomous vehicles when using depth sensors is not possible. In this case, the distance has to be estimated from on-board mounted RGB cameras, which is a complex task especially in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Michaël Fonder , Damien Ernst , Marc Van Droogenbroeck

Accurate monocular metric depth estimation (MMDE) is crucial to solving downstream tasks in 3D perception and modeling. However, the remarkable accuracy of recent MMDE methods is confined to their training domains. These methods fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Luigi Piccinelli , Christos Sakaridis , Yung-Hsu Yang , Mattia Segu , Siyuan Li , Wim Abbeloos , Luc Van Gool

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

Learning to reconstruct depths in a single image by watching unlabeled videos via deep convolutional network (DCN) is attracting significant attention in recent years. In this paper, we introduce a surface normal representation for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-13 Zhenheng Yang , Peng Wang , Wei Xu , Liang Zhao , Ramakant Nevatia

Monocular depth estimation and image deblurring are two fundamental tasks in computer vision, given their crucial role in understanding 3D scenes. Performing any of them by relying on a single image is an ill-posed problem. The recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-31 Saqib Nazir , Lorenzo Vaquero , Manuel Mucientes , Víctor M. Brea , Daniela Coltuc

Depth estimation and 3D object detection are critical for scene understanding but remain challenging to perform with a single image due to the loss of 3D information during image capture. Recent models using deep neural networks have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Julie Chang , Gordon Wetzstein

A key contributor to recent progress in 3D detection from single images is monocular depth estimation. Existing methods focus on how to leverage depth explicitly, by generating pseudo-pointclouds or providing attention cues for image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Dennis Park , Jie Li , Dian Chen , Vitor Guizilini , Adrien Gaidon

Accurate surround-view depth estimation provides a competitive alternative to laser-based sensors and is essential for 3D scene understanding in autonomous driving. While empirical studies have proposed various approaches that primarily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Weimin Liu , Wenjun Wang , Joshua H. Meng

Depth completion aims to recover dense depth maps from sparse depth measurements. It is of increasing importance for autonomous driving and draws increasing attention from the vision community. Most of existing methods directly train a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Yan Xu , Xinge Zhu , Jianping Shi , Guofeng Zhang , Hujun Bao , Hongsheng Li