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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

Depth completion is a pivotal challenge in computer vision, aiming at reconstructing the dense depth map from a sparse one, typically with a paired RGB image. Existing learning based models rely on carefully prepared but limited data,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Shenglun Chen , Xinzhu Ma , Hong Zhang , Haojie Li , Zhihui Wang

Our long term goal is to use image-based depth completion to quickly create 3D models from sparse point clouds, e.g. from SfM or SLAM. Much progress has been made in depth completion. However, most current works assume well distributed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Yuqun Wu , Jae Yong Lee , Derek Hoiem

This work presents the Large Depth Completion Model (LDCM), a simple, effective, and robust framework for single-view metric depth estimation with sparse observations. Without relying on complex architectural designs, LDCM generates…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Zhu Yu , Zhengyi Zhao , Runmin Zhang , Lingteng Qiu , Kejie Qiu , Yisheng He , Siyu Zhu , Zilong Dong , Si-Yuan Cao , Hui-Liang Shen

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

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

Depth completion (DC) aims to predict a dense depth map from an RGB image and a sparse depth map. Existing DC methods generalize poorly to new datasets or unseen sparse depth patterns, limiting their real-world applications. We propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Yiming Zuo , Willow Yang , Zeyu Ma , Jia Deng

Recovering a dense depth image from sparse LiDAR scans is a challenging task. Despite the popularity of color-guided methods for sparse-to-dense depth completion, they treated pixels equally during optimization, ignoring the uneven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Yufan Zhu , Weisheng Dong , Leida Li , Jinjian Wu , Xin Li , Guangming Shi

Dense depth cues are important and have wide applications in various computer vision tasks. In autonomous driving, LIDAR sensors are adopted to acquire depth measurements around the vehicle to perceive the surrounding environments. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-21 Zixuan Huang , Junming Fan , Shenggan Cheng , Shuai Yi , Xiaogang Wang , Hongsheng Li

Depth completion aims at predicting dense pixel-wise depth from an extremely sparse map captured from a depth sensor, e.g., LiDARs. It plays an essential role in various applications such as autonomous driving, 3D reconstruction, augmented…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Junjie Hu , Chenyu Bao , Mete Ozay , Chenyou Fan , Qing Gao , Honghai Liu , Tin Lun Lam

Given sparse depths and the corresponding RGB images, depth completion aims at spatially propagating the sparse measurements throughout the whole image to get a dense depth prediction. Despite the tremendous progress of deep-learning-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Zhang Youmin , Guo Xianda , Poggi Matteo , Zhu Zheng , Huang Guan , Mattoccia Stefano

Accurate depth estimation plays a critical role in the navigation of endoscopic surgical robots, forming the foundation for 3D reconstruction and safe instrument guidance. Fine-tuning pretrained models heavily relies on endoscopic surgical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Yinheng Lin , Yiming Huang , Beilei Cui , Long Bai , Huxin Gao , Hongliang Ren , Jiewen Lai

We consider the problem of dense depth prediction from a sparse set of depth measurements and a single RGB image. Since depth estimation from monocular images alone is inherently ambiguous and unreliable, to attain a higher level of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Fangchang Ma , Sertac Karaman

Sparse depth measurements are widely available in many applications such as augmented reality, visual inertial odometry and robots equipped with low cost depth sensors. Although such sparse depth samples work well for certain applications…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Bing Zhou , Matias Aiskovich , Sinem Guven

The depth completion task is a critical problem in autonomous driving, involving the generation of dense depth maps from sparse depth maps and RGB images. Most existing methods employ a spatial propagation network to iteratively refine the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Ming Yuan , Chuang Zhang , Lei He , Qing Xu , Jianqiang Wang

Feature-based visual simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) methods only estimate the depth of extracted features, generating a sparse depth map. To solve this sparsity problem, depth completion tasks that estimate a dense depth from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Jinwoo Jeon , Hyunjun Lim , Dong-Uk Seo , Hyun Myung

Existing depth completion methods are often targeted at a specific sparse depth type and generalize poorly across task domains. We present a method to complete sparse/semi-dense, noisy, and potentially low-resolution depth maps obtained by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Guangkai Xu , Wei Yin , Jianming Zhang , Oliver Wang , Simon Niklaus , Simon Chen , Jia-Wang Bian

In this paper, we present a learning-based framework for sparse depth video completion. Given a sparse depth map and a color image at a certain viewpoint, our approach makes a cost volume that is constructed on depth hypothesis planes. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Jungeon Kim , Soongjin Kim , Jaesik Park , Seungyong Lee

The depth completion task aims to complete a per-pixel dense depth map from a sparse depth map. In this paper, we propose an efficient least square based depth-independent method to complete the sparse depth map utilizing the RGB image and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Xianze Fang , Yunkai Wang , Zexi Chen , Yue Wang , Rong Xiong

With the wide application of sparse ToF sensors in mobile devices, RGB image-guided sparse depth completion has attracted extensive attention recently, but still faces some problems. First, the fusion of multimodal information requires more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Dewang Hou , Yuanyuan Du , Kai Zhao , Yang Zhao
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