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Monocular visual odometry consists of the estimation of the position of an agent through images of a single camera, and it is applied in autonomous vehicles, medical robots, and augmented reality. However, monocular systems suffer from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-09 André O. Françani , Marcos R. O. A. Maximo

In this paper, we address the problem of monocular depth estimation when only a limited number of training image-depth pairs are available. To achieve a high regression accuracy, the state-of-the-art estimation methods rely on CNNs trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-07 Rongrong Ji , Ke Li , Yan Wang , Xiaoshuai Sun , Feng Guo , Xiaowei Guo , Yongjian Wu , Feiyue Huang , Jiebo Luo

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

Recent advances in structure-from-motion techniques are enabling many scientific fields to benefit from the routine creation of detailed 3D models. However, for a large number of applications, only a single camera is available, due to cost…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-20 Klemen Istenic , Nuno Gracias , Aurelien Arnaubec , Javier Escartin , Rafael Garcia

The bundle of geometry and appearance in computer vision has proven to be a promising solution for robots across a wide variety of applications. Stereo cameras and RGB-D sensors are widely used to realise fast 3D reconstruction and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Xuanpeng Li , Rachid Belaroussi

Depth estimation is one of the essential tasks to be addressed when creating mobile autonomous systems. While monocular depth estimation methods have improved in recent times, depth completion provides more accurate and reliable depth maps…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Wolfgang Boettcher , Lukas Hoyer , Ozan Unal , Ke Li , Dengxin Dai

This work proposes a new, online algorithm for estimating the local scale correction to apply to the output of a monocular SLAM system and obtain an as faithful as possible metric reconstruction of the 3D map and of the camera trajectory.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-11-09 Edgar Sucar , Jean-Bernard Hayet

Monocular depth estimation has improved significantly in recent years, driven by increasingly powerful models and large-scale training data. Predicted depth is increasingly used as an input signal for downstream tasks such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Viktor Kocur , Sithu Aung , Gabrielle Flood , Yaqing Ding , Lukas Bujnak , 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

We present a generic framework for scale-aware direct monocular odometry based on depth prediction from a deep neural network. In contrast with previous methods where depth information is only partially exploited, we formulate a novel depth…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Carlos Campos , Juan D. Tardós

Due to difficulties in acquiring ground truth depth of equirectangular (360) images, the quality and quantity of equirectangular depth data today is insufficient to represent the various scenes in the world. Therefore, 360 depth estimation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Ilwi Yun , Hyuk-Jae Lee , Chae Eun Rhee

Low-overlap aerial imagery poses significant challenges to traditional photogrammetric methods, which rely heavily on high image overlap to produce accurate and complete mapping products. In this study, we propose a novel workflow based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Jiageng Zhong , Qi Zhou , Ming Li , Armin Gruen , Xuan Liao

Recently, learning-based robotic navigation systems have gained extensive research attention and made significant progress. However, the diversity of open-world scenarios poses a major challenge for the generalization of such systems to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Xingwu Ji , Haochen Niu , Dexin Duan , Rendong Ying , Fei Wen , Peilin Liu

Generalized metric depth understanding is critical for precise vision-guided robotics, which current state-of-the-art (SOTA) vision-encoders do not support. To address this, we propose Vanishing Depth, a self-supervised training approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Paul Koch , Jörg Krüger , Ankit Chowdhury , Oliver Heimann

Accurate and generalizable metric depth estimation is crucial for various computer vision applications but remains challenging due to the diverse depth scales encountered in indoor and outdoor environments. In this paper, we introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Tao Wen , Jiepeng Wang , Yabo Chen , Shugong Xu , Chi Zhang , Xuelong Li

A key contributor to recent progress in 3D detection from single images is monocular depth estimation. Existing methods focus on how to leverage depth explicitly, by generating pseudo-pointclouds or providing attention cues for image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Dennis Park , Jie Li , Dian Chen , Vitor Guizilini , Adrien Gaidon

Due to the optical properties, transparent objects often lead depth cameras to generate incomplete or invalid depth data, which in turn reduces the accuracy and reliability of robotic grasping. Existing approaches typically input the RGB-D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Yaofeng Cheng , Xinkai Gao , Sen Zhang , Chao Zeng , Fusheng Zha , Lining Sun , Chenguang Yang

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

3D object detection based on monocular camera data is a key enabler for autonomous driving. The task however, is ill-posed due to lack of depth information in 2D images. Recent deep learning methods show promising results to recover depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-18 Felix Nobis , Fabian Brunhuber , Simon Janssen , Johannes Betz , Markus Lienkamp

Monocular visual odometry (VO) is an important task in robotics and computer vision. Thus far, how to build accurate and robust monocular VO systems that can work well in diverse scenarios remains largely unsolved. In this paper, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Libo Sun , Wei Yin , Enze Xie , Zhengrong Li , Changming Sun , Chunhua Shen