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Monocular depth estimation has applications in many fields, such as autonomous navigation and extended reality, making it an essential computer vision task. However, current methods often produce smooth depth maps that lack the fine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Arun Muthukkumar

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

Deep neural networks have lead to a breakthrough in depth estimation from single images. Recent work often focuses on the accuracy of the depth map, where an evaluation on a publicly available test set such as the KITTI vision benchmark is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-20 Tom van Dijk , Guido C. H. E. de Croon

Building upon the recent progress in novel view synthesis, we propose its application to improve monocular depth estimation. In particular, we propose a novel training method split in three main steps. First, the prediction results of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Zuria Bauer , Zuoyue Li , Sergio Orts-Escolano , Miguel Cazorla , Marc Pollefeys , Martin R. Oswald

In recent years, foundation models for monocular depth estimation have received increasing attention. Current methods mainly address typical daylight conditions, but their effectiveness notably decreases in low-light environments. There is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Longjian Zeng , Zunjie Zhu , Rongfeng Lu , Ming Lu , Bolun Zheng , Chenggang Yan , Anke Xue

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

Depth information which specifies the distance between objects and current position of the robot is essential for many robot tasks such as navigation. Recently, researchers have proposed depth completion frameworks to provide dense depth…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Kevin Christiansen Marsim , Jinwoo Jeon , Yeeun Kim , Myeongwoo Jeong , Hyun Myung

We introduce a novel task of 3D visual grounding in monocular RGB images using language descriptions with both appearance and geometry information. Specifically, we build a large-scale dataset, Mono3DRefer, which contains 3D object targets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Yang Zhan , Yuan Yuan , Zhitong Xiong

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

Monocular depth estimation is an especially important task in robotics and autonomous driving, where 3D structural information is essential. However, extreme lighting conditions and complex surface objects make it difficult to predict depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Minhyeok Lee , Sangwon Hwang , Chaewon Park , Sangyoun Lee

As an essential component for many autonomous driving and robotic activities such as ego-motion estimation, obstacle avoidance and scene understanding, monocular depth estimation (MDE) has attracted great attention from the computer vision…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Xingshuai Dong , Matthew A. Garratt , Sreenatha G. Anavatti , Hussein A. Abbass

Deep networks for Monocular Depth Estimation (MDE) have achieved promising performance recently and it is of great importance to further understand the interpretability of these networks. Existing methods attempt to provide posthoc…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-12 Zunzhi You , Yi-Hsuan Tsai , Wei-Chen Chiu , Guanbin Li

Monocular depth estimation (MDE) is a critical task to guide autonomous medical robots. However, obtaining absolute (metric) depth from an endoscopy camera in surgical scenes is difficult, which limits supervised learning of depth on real…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Hao Li , Daiwei Lu , Jesse d'Almeida , Dilara Isik , Ehsan Khodapanah Aghdam , Nick DiSanto , Ayberk Acar , Susheela Sharma , Jie Ying Wu , Robert J. Webster , Ipek Oguz

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

Depth Estimation and Object Detection Recognition play an important role in autonomous driving technology under the guidance of deep learning artificial intelligence. We propose a hybrid structure called RealNet: a co-design method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Zhuohao Li , Fandi Gou , Qixin De , Leqi Ding , Yuanhang Zhang , Yunze Cai

Depth estimation attracts widespread attention in the computer vision community. However, it is still quite difficult to recover an accurate depth map using only one RGB image. We observe a phenomenon that existing methods tend to fail in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Shuwei Shao , Ran Li , Zhongcai Pei , Zhong Liu , Weihai Chen , Wentao Zhu , Xingming Wu , Baochang Zhang

We introduce dense vision transformers, an architecture that leverages vision transformers in place of convolutional networks as a backbone for dense prediction tasks. We assemble tokens from various stages of the vision transformer into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-26 René Ranftl , Alexey Bochkovskiy , Vladlen Koltun

We revisit the problem of visual depth estimation in the context of autonomous vehicles. Despite the progress on monocular depth estimation in recent years, we show that the gap between monocular and stereo depth accuracy remains large$-$a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Nikolai Smolyanskiy , Alexey Kamenev , Stan Birchfield

We introduce a novel MV-DETR pipeline which is effective while efficient transformer based detection method. Given input RGBD data, we notice that there are super strong pretraining weights for RGB data while less effective works for depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Zichao Dong , Yilin Zhang , Xufeng Huang , Hang Ji , Zhan Shi , Xin Zhan , Junbo Chen

In the field of monocular depth estimation (MDE), many models with excellent zero-shot performance in general scenes emerge recently. However, these methods often fail in predicting non-Lambertian surfaces, such as transparent or mirror…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Junrui Zhang , Jiaqi Li , Yachuan Huang , Yiran Wang , Jinghong Zheng , Liao Shen , Zhiguo Cao