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Self-supervised monocular methods can efficiently learn depth information of weakly textured surfaces or reflective objects. However, the depth accuracy is limited due to the inherent ambiguity in monocular geometric modeling. In contrast,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-22 Xiaofeng Wang , Zheng Zhu , Guan Huang , Xu Chi , Yun Ye , Ziwei Chen , Xingang Wang

This paper presents an unsupervised deep learning framework called UnDEMoN for estimating dense depth map and 6-DoF camera pose information directly from monocular images. The proposed network is trained using unlabeled monocular stereo…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-28 Madhu Babu , Anima Majumder , Kaushik Das , Swagat Kumar

In classical computer vision, rectification is an integral part of multi-view depth estimation. It typically includes epipolar rectification and lens distortion correction. This process simplifies the depth estimation significantly, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Varun Ravi Kumar , Senthil Yogamani , Markus Bach , Christian Witt , Stefan Milz , Patrick Mader

In the recent years, many methods demonstrated the ability of neural networks to learn depth and pose changes in a sequence of images, using only self-supervision as the training signal. Whilst the networks achieve good performance, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Robert McCraith , Lukas Neumann , Andrea Vedaldi

Despite recent improvement of supervised monocular depth estimation, the lack of high quality pixel-wise ground truth annotations has become a major hurdle for further progress. In this work, we propose a new unsupervised depth estimation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Huan Liu , Junsong Yuan , Chen Wang , Jun Chen

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

We propose a monocular depth estimator SC-Depth, which requires only unlabelled videos for training and enables the scale-consistent prediction at inference time. Our contributions include: (i) we propose a geometry consistency loss, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Jia-Wang Bian , Huangying Zhan , Naiyan Wang , Zhichao Li , Le Zhang , Chunhua Shen , Ming-Ming Cheng , Ian Reid

Self-supervised depth learning from monocular images normally relies on the 2D pixel-wise photometric relation between temporally adjacent image frames. However, they neither fully exploit the 3D point-wise geometric correspondences, nor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Kaichen Zhou , Lanqing Hong , Changhao Chen , Hang Xu , Chaoqiang Ye , Qingyong Hu , Zhenguo Li

We tackle the problem of monocular 3D object detection across different sensors, environments, and camera setups. In this paper, we introduce a novel unsupervised domain adaptation approach, MonoCT, that generates highly accurate pseudo…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Johannes Meier , Louis Inchingolo , Oussema Dhaouadi , Yan Xia , Jacques Kaiser , Daniel Cremers

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

An event camera is a novel vision sensor that can capture per-pixel brightness changes and output a stream of asynchronous ``events''. It has advantages over conventional cameras in those scenes with high-speed motions and challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Junyu Zhu , Lina Liu , Bofeng Jiang , Feng Wen , Hongbo Zhang , Wanlong Li , Yong Liu

Monocular image-based 3D reconstruction of faces is a long-standing problem in computer vision. Since image data is a 2D projection of a 3D face, the resulting depth ambiguity makes the problem ill-posed. Most existing methods rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Ayush Tewari , Florian Bernard , Pablo Garrido , Gaurav Bharaj , Mohamed Elgharib , Hans-Peter Seidel , Patrick Pérez , Michael Zollhöfer , Christian Theobalt

Accurate monocular depth estimation is a fundamental component of vision-based perception systems in intelligent transportation applications. Despite recent progress, unsupervised monocular approaches still suffer from significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Yufan Zhu , Chongzhi Ran , Mingtao Feng , Le Dong , Weisheng Dong , Antonio M. López

The success of monocular depth estimation relies on large and diverse training sets. Due to the challenges associated with acquiring dense ground-truth depth across different environments at scale, a number of datasets with distinct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-26 René Ranftl , Katrin Lasinger , David Hafner , Konrad Schindler , Vladlen Koltun

Monocular 3D object detection (Mono3D) in mobile settings (e.g., on a vehicle, a drone, or a robot) is an important yet challenging task. Due to the near-far disparity phenomenon of monocular vision and the ever-changing camera pose, it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Yunsong Zhou , Quan Liu , Hongzi Zhu , Yunzhe Li , Shan Chang , Minyi Guo

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

Mobile robots require accurate and robust depth measurements to understand and interact with the environment. While existing sensing modalities address this problem to some extent, recent research on monocular depth estimation has leveraged…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Marco Job , Thomas Stastny , Tim Kazik , Roland Siegwart , Michael Pantic

We propose a learning-based method that solves monocular stereo and can be extended to fuse depth information from multiple target frames. Given two unconstrained images from a monocular camera with known intrinsic calibration, our network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-13 Kaixuan Wang , Shaojie Shen

Estimating depth from a monocular image is an ill-posed problem: when the camera projects a 3D scene onto a 2D plane, depth information is inherently and permanently lost. Nevertheless, recent work has shown impressive results in estimating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Jagpreet Chawla , Nikhil Thakurdesai , Anuj Godase , Md Reza , David Crandall , Soon-Heung Jung

Monocular Depth Estimation (MDE) enables spatial understanding, 3D reconstruction, and autonomous navigation, yet deep learning approaches often predict only relative depth without a consistent metric scale. This limitation reduces…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Jiuling Zhang