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Depth completion aims at predicting dense pixel-wise depth from an extremely sparse map captured from a depth sensor, e.g., LiDARs. It plays an essential role in various applications such as autonomous driving, 3D reconstruction, augmented…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Junjie Hu , Chenyu Bao , Mete Ozay , Chenyou Fan , Qing Gao , Honghai Liu , Tin Lun Lam

Depth completion aims to recover dense depth maps from sparse depth measurements. It is of increasing importance for autonomous driving and draws increasing attention from the vision community. Most of existing methods directly train a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Yan Xu , Xinge Zhu , Jianping Shi , Guofeng Zhang , Hujun Bao , Hongsheng Li

We propose a method that combines sparse depth (LiDAR) measurements with an intensity image and to produce a dense high-resolution depth image. As there are few, but accurate, depth measurements from the scene, our method infers the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-01 Alireza Ahrabian , Joao F. C. Mota , Andrew M. Wallace

We present a deep model that can accurately produce dense depth maps given an RGB image with known depth at a very sparse set of pixels. The model works simultaneously for both indoor/outdoor scenes and produces state-of-the-art dense depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Zhao Chen , Vijay Badrinarayanan , Gilad Drozdov , Andrew Rabinovich

We present a method for inferring dense depth maps from images and sparse depth measurements by leveraging synthetic data to learn the association of sparse point clouds with dense natural shapes, and using the image as evidence to validate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Alex Wong , Safa Cicek , Stefano Soatto

We present a method to estimate dense depth by optimizing a sparse set of points such that their diffusion into a depth map minimizes a multi-view reprojection error from RGB supervision. We optimize point positions, depths, and weights…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Numair Khan , Min H. Kim , James Tompkin

We propose a non-learning depth completion method for a sparse depth map captured using a light detection and ranging (LiDAR) sensor guided by a pair of stereo images. Generally, conventional stereo-aided depth completion methods have two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Yasuhiro Yao , Ryoichi Ishikawa , Shingo Ando , Kana Kurata , Naoki Ito , Jun Shimamura , Takeshi Oishi

We present a novel approach for metric dense depth estimation based on the fusion of a single-view image and a sparse, noisy Radar point cloud. The direct fusion of heterogeneous Radar and image data, or their encodings, tends to yield…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Han Li , Yukai Ma , Yaqing Gu , Kewei Hu , Yong Liu , Xingxing Zuo

We integrate sparse radar data into a monocular depth estimation model and introduce a novel preprocessing method for reducing the sparseness and limited field of view provided by radar. We explore the intrinsic error of different radar…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-01 Chen-Chou Lo , Patrick Vandewalle

The depth completion task aims to complete a per-pixel dense depth map from a sparse depth map. In this paper, we propose an efficient least square based depth-independent method to complete the sparse depth map utilizing the RGB image and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Xianze Fang , Yunkai Wang , Zexi Chen , Yue Wang , Rong Xiong

Modern high-definition LIDAR is expensive for commercial autonomous driving vehicles and small indoor robots. An affordable solution to this problem is fusion of planar LIDAR with RGB images to provide a similar level of perception…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-07 Chen Fu , Chiyu Dong , Christoph Mertz , John M. Dolan

Depth information is useful for many applications. Active depth sensors are appealing because they obtain dense and accurate depth maps. However, due to issues that range from power constraints to multi-sensor interference, these sensors…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-04 James Noraky , Vivienne Sze

We propose a novel plug-and-play (PnP) module for improving depth prediction with taking arbitrary patterns of sparse depths as input. Given any pre-trained depth prediction model, our PnP module updates the intermediate feature map such…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-12 Tsun-Hsuan Wang , Fu-En Wang , Juan-Ting Lin , Yi-Hsuan Tsai , Wei-Chen Chiu , Min Sun

With the development of computational intelligence algorithms, unsupervised monocular depth and pose estimation framework, which is driven by warped photometric consistency, has shown great performance in the daytime scenario. While in some…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Chaoqiang Zhao , Yang Tang , Qiyu Sun

Self-supervised monocular depth prediction provides a cost-effective solution to obtain the 3D location of each pixel. However, the existing approaches usually lead to unsatisfactory accuracy, which is critical for autonomous robots. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Ziyue Feng , Longlong Jing , Peng Yin , Yingli Tian , Bing Li

The absolute depth values of surrounding environments provide crucial cues for various assistive technologies, such as localization, navigation, and 3D structure estimation. We propose that accurate depth estimated from panoramic images can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Junho Kim , Eun Sun Lee , Young Min Kim

We describe a method to infer dense depth from camera motion and sparse depth as estimated using a visual-inertial odometry system. Unlike other scenarios using point clouds from lidar or structured light sensors, we have few hundreds to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-22 Alex Wong , Xiaohan Fei , Stephanie Tsuei , Stefano Soatto

Self-supervised depth estimation algorithms rely heavily on frame-warping relationships, exhibiting substantial performance degradation when applied in challenging circumstances, such as low-visibility and nighttime scenarios with varying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Madhu Vankadari , Samuel Hodgson , Sangyun Shin , Kaichen Zhou Andrew Markham , Niki Trigoni

Nighttime camera-based depth estimation is a highly challenging task, especially for autonomous driving applications, where accurate depth perception is essential for ensuring safe navigation. Models trained on daytime data often fail in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Simon de Moreau , Yasser Almehio , Andrei Bursuc , Hafid El-Idrissi , Bogdan Stanciulescu , Fabien Moutarde

Radar has gained much attention in autonomous driving due to its accessibility and robustness. However, its standalone application for depth perception is constrained by issues of sparsity and noise. Radar-camera depth estimation offers a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Fuyi Zhang , Zhu Yu , Chunhao Li , Runmin Zhang , Xiaokai Bai , Zili Zhou , Si-Yuan Cao , Fang Wang , Hui-Liang Shen