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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

We propose SUB-Depth, a universal multi-task training framework for self-supervised monocular depth estimation (SDE). Depth models trained with SUB-Depth outperform the same models trained in a standard single-task SDE framework. By…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Hang Zhou , Sarah Taylor , David Greenwood , Michal Mackiewicz

We present a foundation model for zero-shot metric monocular depth estimation. Our model, Depth Pro, synthesizes high-resolution depth maps with unparalleled sharpness and high-frequency details. The predictions are metric, with absolute…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Aleksei Bochkovskii , Amaël Delaunoy , Hugo Germain , Marcel Santos , Yichao Zhou , Stephan R. Richter , Vladlen Koltun

Scale-aware monocular depth estimation poses a significant challenge in computer-aided endoscopic navigation. However, existing depth estimation methods that do not consider the geometric priors struggle to learn the absolute scale from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Ruofeng Wei , Bin Li , Kai Chen , Yiyao Ma , Yunhui Liu , Qi Dou

Self-supervised monocular depth estimation methods aim to be used in critical applications such as autonomous vehicles for environment analysis. To circumvent the potential imperfections of these approaches, a quantification of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Rémi Marsal , Florian Chabot , Angelique Loesch , William Grolleau , Hichem Sahbi

Metric depth estimation from visual sensors is crucial for robots to perceive, navigate, and interact with their environment. Traditional range imaging setups, such as stereo or structured light cameras, face hassles including calibration,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Blanca Lasheras-Hernandez , Klaus H. Strobl , Sergio Izquierdo , Tim Bodenmüller , Rudolph Triebel , Javier Civera

360{\deg} cameras can capture complete environments in a single shot, which makes 360{\deg} imagery alluring in many computer vision tasks. However, monocular depth estimation remains a challenge for 360{\deg} data, particularly for high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Manuel Rey-Area , Mingze Yuan , Christian Richardt

Unsupervised monocular depth and ego-motion estimation has drawn extensive research attention in recent years. Although current methods have reached a high up-to-scale accuracy, they usually fail to learn the true scale metric due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Sen Zhang , Jing Zhang , Dacheng Tao

Estimating precise metric depth and scene reconstruction from monocular endoscopy is a fundamental task for surgical navigation in robotic surgery. However, traditional stereo matching adopts binocular images to perceive the depth…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Ruofeng Wei , Bin Li , Hangjie Mo , Fangxun Zhong , Yonghao Long , Qi Dou , Yun-Hui Liu , Dong Sun

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

Monocular Depth Estimation (MDE) is a fundamental computer vision task with important applications in 3D vision. The current mainstream MDE methods employ an encoder-decoder architecture with multi-level/scale feature processing. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Huibin Bai , Shuai Li , Hanxiao Zhai , Yanbo Gao , Chong Lv , Yibo Wang , Haipeng Ping , Wei Hua , Xingyu Gao

By training over large-scale datasets, zero-shot monocular depth estimation (MDE) methods show robust performance in the wild but often suffer from insufficient detail. Although recent diffusion-based MDE approaches exhibit a superior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Xiang Zhang , Bingxin Ke , Hayko Riemenschneider , Nando Metzger , Anton Obukhov , Markus Gross , Konrad Schindler , Christopher Schroers

The field of monocular depth estimation is continually evolving with the advent of numerous innovative models and extensions. However, research on monocular depth estimation methods specifically for underwater scenes remains limited,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Wenxiang Gua , Lin Qia

Self-supervised monocular depth estimation has seen significant progress in recent years, especially in outdoor environments. However, depth prediction results are not satisfying in indoor scenes where most of the existing data are captured…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Runze Li , Pan Ji , Yi Xu , Bir Bhanu

Event cameras can record scene dynamics with high temporal resolution, providing rich scene details for monocular depth estimation (MDE) even at low-level illumination. Therefore, existing complementary learning approaches for MDE fuse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Haotian Liu , Sanqing Qu , Fan Lu , Zongtao Bu , Florian Roehrbein , Alois Knoll , Guang Chen

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 depth estimation is often described as an ill-posed and inherently ambiguous problem. Estimating depth from 2D images is a crucial step in scene reconstruction, 3Dobject recognition, segmentation, and detection. The problem can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Amlaan Bhoi

Monocular depth estimation has been actively studied in fields such as robot vision, autonomous driving, and 3D scene understanding. Given a sequence of color images, unsupervised learning methods based on the framework of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Songlin Wei , Guodong Chen , Wenzheng Chi , Zhenhua Wang , Lining Sun

Existing methods for scale-invariant monocular depth estimation (SI MDE) often struggle due to the complexity of the task, and limited and non-diverse datasets, hindering generalizability in real-world scenarios. This is while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-14 S. Mahdi H. Miangoleh , Mahesh Reddy , Yağız Aksoy

We present two versatile methods to generally enhance self-supervised monocular depth estimation (MDE) models. The high generalizability of our methods is achieved by solving the fundamental and ubiquitous problems in photometric loss…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Xingyu Chen , Thomas H. Li , Ruonan Zhang , Ge Li