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Monocular and stereo depth estimation offer complementary strengths: monocular methods capture rich contextual priors but lack geometric precision, while stereo approaches leverage epipolar geometry yet struggle with ambiguities such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Tongfan Guan , Jiaxin Guo , Chen Wang , Yun-Hui Liu

This work addresses the challenge of high-quality surface normal estimation from monocular colored inputs (i.e., images and videos), a field which has recently been revolutionized by repurposing diffusion priors. However, previous attempts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Chongjie Ye , Lingteng Qiu , Xiaodong Gu , Qi Zuo , Yushuang Wu , Zilong Dong , Liefeng Bo , Yuliang Xiu , Xiaoguang Han

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

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

The excellent generative capabilities of text-to-image diffusion models suggest they learn informative representations of image-text data. However, what knowledge their representations capture is not fully understood, and they have not been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Kevin Clark , Priyank Jaini

Applying single image Monocular Depth Estimation (MDE) models to video sequences introduces significant temporal instability and flickering artifacts. We propose a novel approach that adapts any state-of-the-art image-based (depth)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Ivan Sobko , Hayko Riemenschneider , Markus Gross , Christopher Schroers

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

In this paper, we propose Jasmine, the first Stable Diffusion (SD)-based self-supervised framework for monocular depth estimation, which effectively harnesses SD's visual priors to enhance the sharpness and generalization of unsupervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Jiyuan Wang , Chunyu Lin , Cheng Guan , Lang Nie , Jing He , Haodong Li , Kang Liao , Yao Zhao

We introduce OneDiffusion, a versatile, large-scale diffusion model that seamlessly supports bidirectional image synthesis and understanding across diverse tasks. It enables conditional generation from inputs such as text, depth, pose,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Duong H. Le , Tuan Pham , Sangho Lee , Christopher Clark , Aniruddha Kembhavi , Stephan Mandt , Ranjay Krishna , Jiasen Lu

Generalizing metric monocular depth estimation presents a significant challenge due to its ill-posed nature, while the entanglement between camera parameters and depth amplifies issues further, hindering multi-dataset training and zero-shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Karlo Koledić , Luka Petrović , Ivan Marković , Ivan Petrović

We present a method for depth estimation with monocular images, which can predict high-quality depth on diverse scenes up to an affine transformation, thus preserving accurate shapes of a scene. Previous methods that predict metric depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Wei Yin , Xinlong Wang , Chunhua Shen , Yifan Liu , Zhi Tian , Songcen Xu , Changming Sun , Dou Renyin

We present an algorithm for estimating consistent dense depth maps and camera poses from a monocular video. We integrate a learning-based depth prior, in the form of a convolutional neural network trained for single-image depth estimation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Johannes Kopf , Xuejian Rong , Jia-Bin Huang

Diffusion models achieve state-of-the-art image generation but remain computationally costly due to iterative denoising. Latent-space models like Stable Diffusion reduce overhead yet lose fine detail, while retrieval-augmented methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Bilal Faye , Hanane Azzag , Mustapha Lebbah

While diffusion priors generate high-quality posterior samples across many inverse problems, they are often trained on limited training sets or purely simulated data, thus inheriting the errors and biases of these underlying sources.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Frederic Wang , Katherine L. Bouman

In the field of monocular depth estimation (MDE), many models with excellent zero-shot performance in general scenes emerge recently. However, these methods often fail in predicting non-Lambertian surfaces, such as transparent or mirror…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Junrui Zhang , Jiaqi Li , Yachuan Huang , Yiran Wang , Jinghong Zheng , Liao Shen , Zhiguo Cao

Stereo matching is a key technique for metric depth estimation in computer vision and robotics. Real-world challenges like occlusion and non-texture hinder accurate disparity estimation from binocular matching cues. Recently, monocular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Hualie Jiang , Zhiqiang Lou , Laiyan Ding , Rui Xu , Minglang Tan , Wenjie Jiang , Rui Huang

Depth Anything has achieved remarkable success in monocular depth estimation with strong generalization ability. However, it suffers from temporal inconsistency in videos, hindering its practical applications. Various methods have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Sili Chen , Hengkai Guo , Shengnan Zhu , Feihu Zhang , Zilong Huang , Jiashi Feng , Bingyi Kang

This work presents Depth Anything, a highly practical solution for robust monocular depth estimation. Without pursuing novel technical modules, we aim to build a simple yet powerful foundation model dealing with any images under any…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Lihe Yang , Bingyi Kang , Zilong Huang , Xiaogang Xu , Jiashi Feng , Hengshuang Zhao

Self-supervised monocular depth estimation is a salient task for 3D scene understanding. Learned jointly with monocular ego-motion estimation, several methods have been proposed to predict accurate pixel-wise depth without using labeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Hemang Chawla , Kishaan Jeeveswaran , Elahe Arani , Bahram Zonooz

Monocular depth estimation remains challenging, as foundation models such as Depth Anything V2 (DA-V2) struggle with real-world images that are far from the training distribution. We introduce Re-Depth Anything, a test-time self-supervision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Ananta R. Bhattarai , Helge Rhodin