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Recent advances in monocular depth estimation methods (MDE) and their improved accuracy open new possibilities for their applications. In this paper, we investigate how monocular depth estimates can be used for relative pose estimation. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Yaqing Ding , Viktor Kocur , Václav Vávra , Zuzana Berger Haladová , Jian Yang , Torsten Sattler , Zuzana Kukelova

Estimating depth from single RGB images and videos is of widespread interest due to its applications in many areas, including autonomous driving, 3D reconstruction, digital entertainment, and robotics. More than 500 deep learning-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Uchitha Rajapaksha , Ferdous Sohel , Hamid Laga , Dean Diepeveen , Mohammed Bennamoun

Purpose: Monocular depth estimation (MDE) is vital for scene understanding in minimally invasive surgery (MIS). However, endoscopic video sequences are often contaminated by smoke, specular reflections, blur, and occlusions, limiting the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Muhammad Asad , Emanuele Colleoni , Pritesh Mehta , Nicolas Toussaint , Ricardo Sanchez-Matilla , Maria Robu , Faisal Bashir , Rahim Mohammadi , Imanol Luengo , Danail Stoyanov

Recent advances in monocular 3D detection leverage a depth estimation network explicitly as an intermediate stage of the 3D detection network. Depth map approaches yield more accurate depth to objects than other methods thanks to the depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Youngseok Kim , Sanmin Kim , Sangmin Sim , Jun Won Choi , Dongsuk Kum

Monocular depth estimation (MDE) has widely applicable but remains highly challenging due to the inherently ill-posed nature of reconstructing 3D scenes from single 2D images. Modern Vision Foundation Models (VFMs), pre-trained on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Gongshu Wang , Zhirui Wang , Kan Yang

The success of monocular depth estimation relies on large and diverse training sets. Due to the challenges associated with acquiring dense ground-truth depth across different environments at scale, a number of datasets with distinct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-26 René Ranftl , Katrin Lasinger , David Hafner , Konrad Schindler , Vladlen Koltun

Monocular depth estimation (MDE) models have undergone significant advancements over recent years. Many MDE models aim to predict affine-invariant relative depth from monocular images, while recent developments in large-scale training and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Yifan Yu , Shaohui Liu , Rémi Pautrat , Marc Pollefeys , Viktor Larsson

This paper focuses on self-supervised monocular depth estimation in dynamic scenes trained on monocular videos. Existing methods jointly estimate pixel-wise depth and motion, relying mainly on an image reconstruction loss. Dynamic regions1…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Hoang Chuong Nguyen , Tianyu Wang , Jose M. Alvarez , Miaomiao Liu

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

A typical monocular depth estimator is trained for a single camera, so its performance drops severely on images taken with different cameras. To address this issue, we propose a versatile depth estimator (VDE), composed of a common relative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Jinyoung Jun , Jae-Han Lee , Chang-Su Kim

Monocular depth priors have been widely adopted by neural rendering in multi-view based tasks such as 3D reconstruction and novel view synthesis. However, due to the inconsistent prediction on each view, how to more effectively leverage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Wenyuan Zhang , Yixiao Yang , Han Huang , Liang Han , Kanle Shi , Yu-Shen Liu , Zhizhong Han

Estimating a depth map from a single RGB image has been investigated widely for localization, mapping, and 3-dimensional object detection. Recent studies on a single-view depth estimation are mostly based on deep Convolutional neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Dongseok Shim , H. Jin Kim

Previous monocular depth estimation methods take a single view and directly regress the expected results. Though recent advances are made by applying geometrically inspired loss functions during training, the inference procedure does not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-12 Yue Luo , Jimmy Ren , Mude Lin , Jiahao Pang , Wenxiu Sun , Hongsheng Li , Liang Lin

Self-supervised monocular depth and ego-motion estimation is a promising approach to replace or supplement expensive depth sensors such as LiDAR for robotics applications like autonomous driving. However, most research in this area focuses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Vitor Guizilini , Igor Vasiljevic , Rares Ambrus , Greg Shakhnarovich , Adrien Gaidon

Monocular Depth Estimation (MDE) aims to predict pixel-wise depth given a single RGB image. For both, the convolutional as well as the recent attention-based models, encoder-decoder-based architectures have been found to be useful due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Ashutosh Agarwal , Chetan Arora

Self-supervised monocular depth estimation has been widely investigated to estimate depth images and relative poses from RGB images. This framework is attractive for researchers because the depth and pose networks can be trained from just…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Noriaki Hirose , Kosuke Tahara

The great potential of unsupervised monocular depth estimation has been demonstrated by many works due to low annotation cost and impressive accuracy comparable to supervised methods. To further improve the performance, recent works mainly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Junyu Zhu , Lina Liu , Yong Liu , Wanlong Li , Feng Wen , Hongbo Zhang

Bokeh rendering and depth estimation share a fundamental optical connection, yet existing methods fail to fully exploit this reciprocity. Conventional bokeh pipelines rely heavily on noisy depth maps that inevitably introduce visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Hangwei Zhang , Armando Fortes , Tianyi Wei , Xingang Pan

Self-supervised monocular methods can efficiently learn depth information of weakly textured surfaces or reflective objects. However, the depth accuracy is limited due to the inherent ambiguity in monocular geometric modeling. In contrast,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-22 Xiaofeng Wang , Zheng Zhu , Guan Huang , Xu Chi , Yun Ye , Ziwei Chen , Xingang Wang

Self-supervised monocular depth estimation is a significant task for low-cost and efficient 3D scene perception and measurement in endoscopy. However, the variety of illumination conditions and scene features is still the primary challenges…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Liangjing Shao , Chenkang Du , Benshuang Chen , Xueli Liu , Xinrong Chen