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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

We present a generalised self-supervised learning approach for monocular estimation of the real depth across scenes with diverse depth ranges from 1--100s of meters. Existing supervised methods for monocular depth estimation require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-15 Mertalp Ocal , Armin Mustafa

Accurate depth estimation is at the core of many applications in computer graphics, vision, and robotics. Current state-of-the-art monocular depth estimators, trained on extensive datasets, generalize well but lack 3D consistency needed for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Laura Fink , Linus Franke , Bernhard Egger , Joachim Keinert , Marc Stamminger

Self-supervised monocular depth estimation methods have been increasingly given much attention due to the benefit of not requiring large, labelled datasets. Such self-supervised methods require high-quality salient features and consequently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Xiaotong Guo , Huijie Zhao , Shuwei Shao , Xudong Li , Baochang Zhang

Monocular depth estimation is an ill-posed problem as the same 2D image can be projected from infinite 3D scenes. Although the leading algorithms in this field have reported significant improvement, they are essentially geared to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Xiaodong Yang , Zhuang Ma , Zhiyu Ji , Zhe Ren

Over the past few years, monocular depth estimation and completion have been paid more and more attention from the computer vision community because of their widespread applications. In this paper, we introduce novel physics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Shuwei Shao , Zhongcai Pei , Weihai Chen , Peter C. Y. Chen , Zhengguo Li

This work presents EndoStreamDepth, a monocular depth estimation framework for endoscopic video streams. It provides accurate depth maps with sharp anatomical boundaries for each frame, temporally consistent predictions across frames, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Hao Li , Daiwei Lu , Jiacheng Wang , Robert J. Webster , Ipek Oguz

In recent years, the emergence of foundation models for depth prediction has led to remarkable progress, particularly in zero-shot monocular depth estimation. These models generate impressive depth predictions; however, their outputs are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Rizhao Fan , Tianfang Ma , Zhigen Li , Ning An , Jian Cheng

Unsupervised deep learning methods have shown promising performance for single-image depth estimation. Since most of these methods use binocular stereo pairs for self-supervision, the depth range is generally limited. Small-baseline stereo…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Saad Imran , Muhammad Umar Karim Khan , Sikander Bin Mukarram , Chong-Min Kyung

Current discriminative depth estimation methods often produce blurry artifacts, while generative approaches suffer from slow sampling due to curvatures in the noise-to-depth transport. Our method addresses these challenges by framing depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Ming Gui , Johannes Schusterbauer , Ulrich Prestel , Pingchuan Ma , Dmytro Kotovenko , Olga Grebenkova , Stefan Andreas Baumann , Vincent Tao Hu , Björn Ommer

Depth completion involves predicting dense depth maps from sparse LiDAR inputs. However, sparse depth annotations from sensors limit the availability of dense supervision, which is necessary for learning detailed geometric features. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Yingping Liang , Yutao Hu , Wenqi Shao , Ying Fu

Depth estimation and 3D object detection are critical for scene understanding but remain challenging to perform with a single image due to the loss of 3D information during image capture. Recent models using deep neural networks have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Julie Chang , Gordon Wetzstein

Perceiving 3D information is of paramount importance in many applications of computer vision. Recent advances in monocular depth estimation have shown that gaining such knowledge from a single camera input is possible by training deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Sai Shyam Chanduri , Zeeshan Khan Suri , Igor Vozniak , Christian Müller

We present a deep model that can accurately produce dense depth maps given an RGB image with known depth at a very sparse set of pixels. The model works simultaneously for both indoor/outdoor scenes and produces state-of-the-art dense depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Zhao Chen , Vijay Badrinarayanan , Gilad Drozdov , Andrew Rabinovich

Depth estimation from a single image is an active research topic in computer vision. The most accurate approaches are based on fully supervised learning models, which rely on a large amount of dense and high-resolution (HR) ground-truth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Jialei Xu , Yuanchao Bai , Xianming Liu , Junjun Jiang , Xiangyang Ji

360{\deg} cameras can capture complete environments in a single shot, which makes 360{\deg} imagery alluring in many computer vision tasks. However, monocular depth estimation remains a challenge for 360{\deg} data, particularly for high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Manuel Rey-Area , Mingze Yuan , Christian Richardt

Dense and accurate depth estimation is essential for robotic manipulation, grasping, and navigation, yet currently available depth sensors are prone to errors on transparent, specular, and general non-Lambertian surfaces. To mitigate these…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Simon Dorer , Martin Büchner , Nick Heppert , Abhinav Valada

Depth sensing is of paramount importance for unmanned aerial and autonomous vehicles. Nonetheless, contemporary monocular depth estimation methods employing complex deep neural networks within Convolutional Neural Networks are inadequately…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Cheng Feng , Congxuan Zhang , Zhen Chen , Weiming Hu , Liyue Ge

Depth information is the foundation of perception, essential for autonomous driving, robotics, and other source-constrained applications. Promptly obtaining accurate and efficient depth information allows for a rapid response in dynamic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Xin Zhang , Rabab Abdelfattah , Yuqi Song , Samuel A. Dauchert , Xiaofeng wang

We present SHARP, an approach to photorealistic view synthesis from a single image. Given a single photograph, SHARP regresses the parameters of a 3D Gaussian representation of the depicted scene. This is done in less than a second on a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Lars Mescheder , Wei Dong , Shiwei Li , Xuyang Bai , Marcel Santos , Peiyun Hu , Bruno Lecouat , Mingmin Zhen , Amaël Delaunoy , Tian Fang , Yanghai Tsin , Stephan R. Richter , Vladlen Koltun