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Real-time dense scene reconstruction during unstable camera motions is crucial for robotics, yet current RGB-D SLAM systems fail when cameras experience large viewpoint changes, fast motions, or sudden shaking. Classical optimization-based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Siyan Dong , Zijun Wang , Lulu Cai , Yi Ma , Yanchao Yang

Monocular depth estimation (MDE) has been widely adopted in the perception systems of autonomous vehicles and mobile robots. However, existing approaches often struggle to maintain temporal consistency in depth estimation across consecutive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Leezy Han , Seunggyu Kim , Dongseok Shim , Hyeonbeom Lee

Accurate monocular depth estimation is crucial for 3D scene understanding, but existing methods often blur depth at object boundaries, introducing spurious intermediate 3D points. While achieving sharp edges usually requires very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Aurélien Cecille , Stefan Duffner , Franck Davoine , Rémi Agier , Thibault Neveu

Monocular depth estimation (MDE) provides a useful tool for robotic perception, but its predictions are often uncertain and inaccurate in challenging environments such as surgical scenes where textureless surfaces, specular reflections, and…

Monocular image-based 3D perception has become an active research area in recent years owing to its applications in autonomous driving. Approaches to monocular 3D perception including detection and tracking, however, often yield inferior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Longlong Jing , Ruichi Yu , Henrik Kretzschmar , Kang Li , Charles R. Qi , Hang Zhao , Alper Ayvaci , Xu Chen , Dillon Cower , Yingwei Li , Yurong You , Han Deng , Congcong Li , Dragomir Anguelov

Monocular depth inference has gained tremendous attention from researchers in recent years and remains as a promising replacement for expensive time-of-flight sensors, but issues with scale acquisition and implementation overhead still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Kenny Chen , Alexandra Pogue , Brett T. Lopez , Ali-akbar Agha-mohammadi , Ankur Mehta

This work delves into unsupervised monocular depth estimation in endoscopy, which leverages adjacent frames to establish a supervisory signal during the training phase. For many clinical applications, e.g., surgical navigation, temporally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Shuwei Shao , Zhongcai Pei , Weihai Chen , Xingming Wu , Zhong Liu

Monocular metric depth estimation (MMDE) is a crucial task to solve for indoor scene reconstruction on edge devices. Despite this importance, existing models are sensitive to factors such as boundary frequency of objects in the scene and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Sanghyun Byun , Jacob Song , Woo Seong Chung

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

Monocular depth estimation from a single image is an ill-posed problem for computer vision due to insufficient reliable cues as the prior knowledge. Besides the inter-frame supervision, namely stereo and adjacent frames, extensive prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Zhengyang Lu , Ying Chen

We present a novel unsupervised learning framework for single view depth estimation using monocular videos. It is well known in 3D vision that enlarging the baseline can increase the depth estimation accuracy, and jointly optimizing a set…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Lipu Zhou , Jiamin Ye , Montiel Abello , Shengze Wang , Michael Kaess

This paper presents a novel self-supervised two-frame multi-camera metric depth estimation network, termed M${^2}$Depth, which is designed to predict reliable scale-aware surrounding depth in autonomous driving. Unlike the previous works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Yingshuang Zou , Yikang Ding , Xi Qiu , Haoqian Wang , Haotian Zhang

We introduce a way to learn to estimate a scene representation from a single image by predicting a low-dimensional subspace of optical flow for each training example, which encompasses the variety of possible camera and object movement.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Richard Strong Bowen , Richard Tucker , Ramin Zabih , Noah Snavely

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

Estimating 3D scene flow from a sequence of monocular images has been gaining increased attention due to the simple, economical capture setup. Owing to the severe ill-posedness of the problem, the accuracy of current methods has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Junhwa Hur , Stefan Roth

Recent advances in self-supervised learning havedemonstrated that it is possible to learn accurate monoculardepth reconstruction from raw video data, without using any 3Dground truth for supervision. However, in robotics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Robert McCraith , Lukas Neumann , Andrew Zisserman , Andrea Vedaldi

Although deep neural networks have been widely applied to computer vision problems, extending them into multiview depth estimation is non-trivial. In this paper, we present MVDepthNet, a convolutional network to solve the depth estimation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Kaixuan Wang , Shaojie Shen

Self-supervised learning for depth estimation uses geometry in image sequences for supervision and shows promising results. Like many computer vision tasks, depth network performance is determined by the capability to learn accurate spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Hang Zhou , David Greenwood , Sarah Taylor

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

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 2025-12-19 Luigi Piccinelli , Christos Sakaridis , Yung-Hsu Yang , Mattia Segu , Siyuan Li , Wim Abbeloos , Luc Van Gool