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Radar-Camera depth estimation aims to predict dense and accurate metric depth by fusing input images and Radar data. Model efficiency is crucial for this task in pursuit of real-time processing on autonomous vehicles and robotic platforms.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Yiran Wang , Jiaqi Li , Chaoyi Hong , Ruibo Li , Liusheng Sun , Xiao Song , Zhe Wang , Zhiguo Cao , Guosheng Lin

Depth estimation is a cornerstone of 3D reconstruction and plays a vital role in minimally invasive endoscopic surgeries. However, most current depth estimation networks rely on traditional convolutional neural networks, which are limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Bojian Li , Bo Liu , Xinning Yao , Jinghua Yue , Fugen Zhou

Underwater infrastructure requires frequent inspection and maintenance due to harsh marine conditions. Current reliance on human divers or remotely operated vehicles is limited by perceptual and operational challenges, especially around…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Hongjie Zhang , Gideon Billings , Stefan B. Williams

Monocular depth estimation is an important task with rapid progress, but how to evaluate it is not fully resolved, as evidenced by a lack of standardization in existing literature and a large selection of evaluation metrics whose trade-offs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Siyang Wu , Jack Nugent , Willow Yang , Jia Deng

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

Depth estimation from single monocular images is a key component of scene understanding and has benefited largely from deep convolutional neural networks (CNN) recently. In this article, we take advantage of the recent deep residual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-14 Yuanzhouhan Cao , Zifeng Wu , Chunhua Shen

The increasing use of 360 images across various domains has emphasized the need for robust depth estimation techniques tailored for omnidirectional images. However, obtaining large-scale labeled datasets for 360 depth estimation remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Dongki Jung , Jaehoon Choi , Yonghan Lee , Dinesh Manocha

Monocular depth estimation (MDE) in the self-supervised scenario has emerged as a promising method as it refrains from the requirement of ground truth depth. Despite continuous efforts, MDE is still sensitive to scale changes especially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Peizhe Jiang , Wei Yang , Xiaoqing Ye , Xiao Tan , Meng Wu

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 relative and metric depth estimation has seen a tremendous boost in the last few years due to the sharp advancements in foundation models and in particular transformer based networks. As we start to see applications to the domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Nicolas Toussaint , Emanuele Colleoni , Ricardo Sanchez-Matilla , Joshua Sutcliffe , Vanessa Thompson , Muhammad Asad , Imanol Luengo , Danail Stoyanov

Recent camera-based 3D object detection is limited by the precision of transforming from image to 3D feature spaces, as well as the accuracy of object localization within the 3D space. This paper aims to address such a fundamental problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Chaoqun Wang , Yiran Qin , Zijian Kang , Ningning Ma , Ruimao Zhang

UAVs have become an essential photogrammetric measurement as they are affordable, easily accessible and versatile. Aerial images captured from UAVs have applications in small and large scale texture mapping, 3D modelling, object detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Logambal Madhuanand , Francesco Nex , Michael Ying Yang

Dense depth estimation is essential to scene-understanding for autonomous driving. However, recent self-supervised approaches on monocular videos suffer from scale-inconsistency across long sequences. Utilizing data from the ubiquitously…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Hemang Chawla , Arnav Varma , Elahe Arani , Bahram Zonooz

Supervised learning based methods for monocular depth estimation usually require large amounts of extensively annotated training data. In the case of aerial imagery, this ground truth is particularly difficult to acquire. Therefore, in this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Max Hermann , Boitumelo Ruf , Martin Weinmann , Stefan Hinz

Depth estimation is a critical topic for robotics and vision-related tasks. In monocular depth estimation, in comparison with supervised learning that requires expensive ground truth labeling, self-supervised methods possess great potential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Jinchang Zhang , Praveen Kumar Reddy , Xue-Iuan Wong , Yiannis Aloimonos , Guoyu Lu

Recent techniques in self-supervised monocular depth estimation are approaching the performance of supervised methods, but operate in low resolution only. We show that high resolution is key towards high-fidelity self-supervised monocular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-04 Sudeep Pillai , Rares Ambrus , Adrien Gaidon

Self-supervised surround-view depth estimation enables dense, low-cost 3D perception with a 360{\deg} field of view from multiple minimally overlapping images. Yet, most existing methods suffer from depth estimates that are inconsistent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Samer Abualhanud , Christian Grannemann , Max Mehltretter

Video depth estimation is crucial in various applications, such as scene reconstruction and augmented reality. In contrast to the naive method of estimating depths from images, a more sophisticated approach uses temporal information,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Elena Kosheleva , Sunil Jaiswal , Faranak Shamsafar , Noshaba Cheema , Klaus Illgner-Fehns , Philipp Slusallek

Camera traps are widely used for wildlife monitoring, but extracting accurate distance measurements from monocular images remains challenging due to the lack of depth information. While monocular depth estimation (MDE) methods have advanced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Niccolò Niccoli , Lorenzo Seidenari , Ilaria Greco , Francesco Rovero

Depth estimation from a single image represents a fascinating, yet challenging problem with countless applications. Recent works proved that this task could be learned without direct supervision from ground truth labels leveraging image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Fabio Tosi , Filippo Aleotti , Matteo Poggi , Stefano Mattoccia