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Current self-supervised monocular depth estimation methods are mostly based on estimating a rigid-body motion representing camera motion. These methods suffer from the well-known scale ambiguity problem in their predictions. We propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-06 Sadra Safadoust , Fatma Güney

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

Monocular cameras are extensively employed in indoor robotics, but their performance is limited in visual odometry, depth estimation, and related applications due to the absence of scale information.Depth estimation refers to the process of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Yehao Liu , Ruoyan Xia , Xiaosu Xu , Zijian Wang , Yiqing Ya , Mingze Fan

Monocular metric depth estimation (MMDE) is a core challenge in computer vision, playing a pivotal role in real-world applications that demand accurate spatial understanding. Although prior works have shown promising zero-shot performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Girish Chandar Ganesan , Yuliang Guo , Liu Ren , Xiaoming Liu

Self-supervised monocular depth estimation is a significant task for low-cost and efficient 3D scene perception and measurement in endoscopy. However, the variety of illumination conditions and scene features is still the primary challenges…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Liangjing Shao , Chenkang Du , Benshuang Chen , Xueli Liu , Xinrong Chen

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

Although the majority of recent autonomous driving systems concentrate on developing perception methods based on ego-vehicle sensors, there is an overlooked alternative approach that involves leveraging intelligent roadside cameras to help…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Lei Yang , Jiaxin Yu , Xinyu Zhang , Jun Li , Li Wang , Yi Huang , Chuang Zhang , Hong Wang , Yiming Li

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

Monocular metric depth estimation (MMDE) is a crucial task to solve for indoor scene reconstruction on edge devices. Despite this importance, existing models are sensitive to factors such as boundary frequency of objects in the scene and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Sanghyun Byun , Jacob Song , Woo Seong Chung

Depth perception is crucial for spatial understanding and has traditionally been achieved through stereoscopic imaging. However, the precision of depth estimation using stereoscopic methods depends on the accurate calibration of binocular…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Muhamamd Ishfaq Hussain , Zubia Naz , Muhammad Aasim Rafique , Moongu Jeon

Monocular depth estimation is an extensively studied computer vision problem with a vast variety of applications. Deep learning-based methods have demonstrated promise for both supervised and unsupervised depth estimation from monocular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Richard Chen , Faisal Mahmood , Alan Yuille , Nicholas J. Durr

Monocular depth estimation (MDE) is a critical component of many medical tracking and mapping algorithms, particularly from endoscopic or laparoscopic video. However, because ground truth depth maps cannot be acquired from real patient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-31 John J. Han , Ayberk Acar , Callahan Henry , Jie Ying Wu

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

Monocular depth estimation has improved significantly in recent years, driven by increasingly powerful models and large-scale training data. Predicted depth is increasingly used as an input signal for downstream tasks such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Viktor Kocur , Sithu Aung , Gabrielle Flood , Yaqing Ding , Lukas Bujnak , Torsten Sattler , Zuzana Kukelova

Although existing monocular depth estimation methods have made great progress, predicting an accurate absolute depth map from a single image is still challenging due to the limited modeling capacity of networks and the scale ambiguity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Jie Xiang , Yun Wang , Lifeng An , Haiyang Liu , Zijun Wang , Jian Liu

Perception of the environment is a critical component for enabling autonomous driving. It provides the vehicle with the ability to comprehend its surroundings and make informed decisions. Depth prediction plays a pivotal role in this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Houssem Boulahbal

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

Single-view depth estimation suffers from the problem that a network trained on images from one camera does not generalize to images taken with a different camera model. Thus, changing the camera model requires collecting an entirely new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-04 Jose M. Facil , Benjamin Ummenhofer , Huizhong Zhou , Luis Montesano , Thomas Brox , Javier Civera

Depth estimation is a foundational component for 3D reconstruction in minimally invasive endoscopic surgeries. However, existing monocular depth estimation techniques often exhibit limited performance to the varying illumination and complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Xinning Yao , Bo Liu , Bojian Li , Jingjing Wang , Jinghua Yue , Fugen Zhou

Supervised deep learning methods have shown promising results for the task of monocular depth estimation; but acquiring ground truth is costly, and prone to noise as well as inaccuracies. While synthetic datasets have been used to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-08 Jogendra Nath Kundu , Phani Krishna Uppala , Anuj Pahuja , R. Venkatesh Babu