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Depth cues have been proved very useful in various computer vision and robotic tasks. This paper addresses the problem of monocular depth estimation from a single still image. Inspired by the effectiveness of recent works on multi-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-05 Dan Xu , Elisa Ricci , Wanli Ouyang , Xiaogang Wang , Nicu Sebe

Depth sensing is a critical function for robotic tasks such as localization, mapping and obstacle detection. There has been a significant and growing interest in depth estimation from a single RGB image, due to the relatively low cost and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-11 Diana Wofk , Fangchang Ma , Tien-Ju Yang , Sertac Karaman , Vivienne Sze

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

Monocular depth estimation is the base task in computer vision. It has a tremendous development in the decade with the development of deep learning. But the boundary blur of the depth map is still a serious problem. Research finds the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Xin Yang , Qingling Chang , Xinlin Liu , Yan Cui

A well-known challenge in applying deep-learning methods to omnidirectional images is spherical distortion. In dense regression tasks such as depth estimation, where structural details are required, using a vanilla CNN layer on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Yuyan Li , Yuliang Guo , Zhixin Yan , Xinyu Huang , Ye Duan , Liu Ren

Depth estimation from a single image is a challenging problem in computer vision because binocular disparity or motion information is absent. Whereas impressive performances have been reported in this area recently using end-to-end trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Yihong Wu , Yuwen Heng , Mahesan Niranjan , Hansung Kim

In recent years, MRI super-resolution techniques have achieved great success, especially multi-contrast methods that extract texture information from reference images to guide the super-resolution reconstruction. However, current methods…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-27 Zhiyuan Yang , Bo Zhang , Zhiqiang Zeng , Si Yong Yeo

We consider the problem of depth estimation from a single monocular image in this work. It is a challenging task as no reliable depth cues are available, e.g., stereo correspondences, motions, etc. Previous efforts have been focusing on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-10-01 Fayao Liu , Chunhua Shen , Guosheng Lin

Monocular depth foundation models generalize well across scenes, yet they are typically optimized with uniform pixel-wise objectives that do not distinguish user-specified or task-relevant target regions from the surrounding context. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Yuxin Du , Tao Lin , Zile Zhong , Runting Li , Xiyao Chen , Jiting Liu , Chenglin Liu , Ying-Cong Chen , Yuqian Fu , Bo Zhao

Deep neural networks have recently thrived on single image depth estimation. That being said, current developments on this topic highlight an apparent compromise between accuracy and network size. This work proposes an accurate and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Lam Huynh , Matteo Pedone , Phong Nguyen , Jiri Matas , Esa Rahtu , Janne Heikkila

In the current monocular depth research, the dominant approach is to employ unsupervised training on large datasets, driven by warped photometric consistency. Such approaches lack robustness and are unable to generalize to challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Jaime Spencer , Richard Bowden , Simon Hadfield

In this article, we tackle the problem of depth estimation from single monocular images. Compared with depth estimation using multiple images such as stereo depth perception, depth from monocular images is much more challenging. Prior work…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Fayao Liu , Chunhua Shen , Guosheng Lin , Ian Reid

Single image depth estimation is a foundational task in computer vision and generative modeling. However, prevailing depth estimation models grapple with accommodating the increasing resolutions commonplace in today's consumer cameras and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Zhenyu Li , Shariq Farooq Bhat , Peter Wonka

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

Accurate monocular metric depth estimation (MMDE) is crucial to solving downstream tasks in 3D perception and modeling. However, the remarkable accuracy of recent MMDE methods is confined to their training domains. These methods fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Luigi Piccinelli , Yung-Hsu Yang , Christos Sakaridis , Mattia Segu , Siyuan Li , Luc Van Gool , Fisher Yu

Monocular depth estimation (MDE) aims to transform an RGB image of a scene into a pixelwise depth map from the same camera view. It is fundamentally ill-posed due to missing information: any single image can have been taken from many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Dylan Auty , Krystian Mikolajczyk

Edge detection, a basic task in the field of computer vision, is an important preprocessing operation for the recognition and understanding of a visual scene. In conventional models, the edge image generated is ambiguous, and the edge lines…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Dawei Dai , Chunjie Wang , Shuyin Xia , Yingge Liu , Guoyin Wang

Depth estimation from monocular endoscopic images presents significant challenges due to the complexity of endoscopic surgery, such as irregular shapes of human soft tissues, as well as variations in lighting conditions. Existing methods…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-07 Dawei Lu , Deqiang Xiao , Danni Ai , Jingfan Fan , Tianyu Fu , Yucong Lin , Hong Song , Xujiong Ye , Lei Zhang , Jian Yang

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

A single color image can contain many cues informative towards different aspects of local geometric structure. We approach the problem of monocular depth estimation by using a neural network to produce a mid-level representation that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-08 Ayan Chakrabarti , Jingyu Shao , Gregory Shakhnarovich