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Estimating depth from RGB images can facilitate many computer vision tasks, such as indoor localization, height estimation, and simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). Recently, monocular depth estimation has obtained great progress…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Qing Li , Jiasong Zhu , Jun Liu , Rui Cao , Qingquan Li , Sen Jia , Guoping Qiu

Monocular depth and pose estimation play an important role in the development of colonoscopy-assisted navigation, as they enable improved screening by reducing blind spots, minimizing the risk of missed or recurrent lesions, and lowering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Xinwei Ju , Rema Daher , Danail Stoyanov , Sophia Bano , Francisco Vasconcelos

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

Estimating depth from a single RGB images is a fundamental task in computer vision, which is most directly solved using supervised deep learning. In the field of unsupervised learning of depth from a single RGB image, depth is not given…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-16 Shir Gur , Lior Wolf

The estimation of depth in two-dimensional images has long been a challenging and extensively studied subject in computer vision. Recently, significant progress has been made with the emergence of Deep Learning-based approaches, which have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Vasileios Arampatzakis , George Pavlidis , Kyriakos Pantoglou , Nikolaos Mitianoudis , Nikos Papamarkos

Endoscopic depth estimation is a critical technology for improving the safety and precision of minimally invasive surgery. It has attracted considerable attention from researchers in medical imaging, computer vision, and robotics. Over the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Ke Niu , Zeyun Liu , Xue Feng , Heng Li , Qika Lin , Kaize Shi

Unsupervised depth learning takes the appearance difference between a target view and a view synthesized from its adjacent frame as supervisory signal. Since the supervisory signal only comes from images themselves, the resolution of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Junsheng Zhou , Yuwang Wang , Kaihuai Qin , Wenjun Zeng

Ego-motion estimation is vital for drones when flying in GPS-denied environments. Vision-based methods struggle when flight speed increases and close-by objects lead to difficult visual conditions with considerable motion blur and large…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Stavrow A. Bahnam , Christophe De Wagter , Guido C. H. E. de Croon

Estimating a scene's depth to achieve collision avoidance against moving pedestrians is a crucial and fundamental problem in the robotic field. This paper proposes a novel, low complexity network architecture for fast and accurate human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Shan An , Fangru Zhou , Mei Yang , Haogang Zhu , Changhong Fu , Konstantinos A. Tsintotas

As an agent moves through the world, the apparent motion of scene elements is (usually) inversely proportional to their depth. It is natural for a learning agent to associate image patterns with the magnitude of their displacement over…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Huaizu Jiang , Erik Learned-Miller , Gustav Larsson , Michael Maire , Greg Shakhnarovich

Depth and ego-motion estimations are essential for the localization and navigation of autonomous robots and autonomous driving. Recent studies make it possible to learn the per-pixel depth and ego-motion from the unlabeled monocular video.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Guangming Wang , Jiquan Zhong , Shijie Zhao , Wenhua Wu , Zhe Liu , Hesheng Wang

Monocular depth estimation plays a fundamental role in computer vision. Due to the costly acquisition of depth ground truth, self-supervised methods that leverage adjacent frames to establish a supervisory signal have emerged as the most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Zhong Liu , Ran Li , Shuwei Shao , Xingming Wu , Weihai Chen

Recent work has shown that CNN-based depth and ego-motion estimators can be learned using unlabelled monocular videos. However, the performance is limited by unidentified moving objects that violate the underlying static scene assumption in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-04 Jia-Wang Bian , Zhichao Li , Naiyan Wang , Huangying Zhan , Chunhua Shen , Ming-Ming Cheng , Ian Reid

For a robot deployed in the world, it is desirable to have the ability of autonomous learning to improve its initial pre-set knowledge. We formalize this as a bootstrapped self-supervised learning problem where a system is initially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Yihao Zhang , John J. Leonard

Neural networks have shown great success in extracting geometric information from color images. Especially, monocular depth estimation networks are increasingly reliable in real-world scenes. In this work we investigate the applicability of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Dominik Engel , Sebastian Hartwig , Timo Ropinski

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

Representation learning approaches typically rely on images of objects captured from a single perspective that are transformed using affine transformations. Additionally, self-supervised learning, a successful paradigm of representation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Omiros Pantazis , Mathew Salvaris

Monocular Depth Estimation (MDE) enables spatial understanding, 3D reconstruction, and autonomous navigation, yet deep learning approaches often predict only relative depth without a consistent metric scale. This limitation reduces…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Jiuling Zhang

We present a self-supervised approach to training convolutional neural networks for dense depth estimation from monocular endoscopy data without a priori modeling of anatomy or shading. Our method only requires sequential data from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Xingtong Liu , Ayushi Sinha , Mathias Unberath , Masaru Ishii , Gregory Hager , Russell H. Taylor , Austin Reiter

Intrinsic image decomposition, which is an essential task in computer vision, aims to infer the reflectance and shading of the scene. It is challenging since it needs to separate one image into two components. To tackle this, conventional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Yunfei Liu , Yu Li , Shaodi You , Feng Lu