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We consider the problem of reconstructing a dynamic scene observed from a stereo camera. Most existing methods for depth from stereo treat different stereo frames independently, leading to temporally inconsistent depth predictions. Temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Nikita Karaev , Ignacio Rocco , Benjamin Graham , Natalia Neverova , Andrea Vedaldi , Christian Rupprecht

360{\deg} images are widely available over the last few years. This paper proposes a new technique for single 360{\deg} image depth prediction under open environments. Depth prediction from a 360{\deg} single image is not easy for two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Yuya Hasegawa , Ikehata Satoshi , Kiyoharu Aizawa

Depth estimation from images serves as the fundamental step of 3D perception for autonomous driving and is an economical alternative to expensive depth sensors like LiDAR. The temporal photometric constraints enables self-supervised depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Yi Wei , Linqing Zhao , Wenzhao Zheng , Zheng Zhu , Yongming Rao , Guan Huang , Jiwen Lu , Jie Zhou

Depth estimation is a crucial step for image-guided intervention in robotic surgery and laparoscopic imaging system. Since per-pixel depth ground truth is difficult to acquire for laparoscopic image data, it is rarely possible to apply…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Baoru Huang , Jian-Qing Zheng , Anh Nguyen , Chi Xu , Ioannis Gkouzionis , Kunal Vyas , David Tuch , Stamatia Giannarou , Daniel S. Elson

Omnidirectional images (ODIs) provide full 360x180 view which are widely adopted in VR, AR and embodied intelligence applications. While multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance on conventional 2D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Liu Yang , Huiyu Duan , Ran Tao , Juntao Cheng , Sijing Wu , Yunhao Li , Jing Liu , Xiongkuo Min , Guangtao Zhai

Estimating the depth of omnidirectional images is more challenging than that of normal field-of-view (NFoV) images because the varying distortion can significantly twist an object's shape. The existing methods suffer from troublesome…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Zhijie Shen , Chunyu Lin , Lang Nie , Kang Liao , Yao zhao

Reliable depth estimation from spherical images is crucial for 360{\deg} vision in robotic navigation and immersive scene understanding. However, the onboard spherical camera can experience unintentional pose variations in real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Soulayma Gazzeh , Giuseppe Mazzola , Liliana Lo Presti , Marco La Cascia

Spatial visual perception is a fundamental requirement in physical-world applications like autonomous driving and robotic manipulation, driven by the need to interact with 3D environments. Capturing pixel-aligned metric depth using RGB-D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Bin Tan , Changjiang Sun , Xiage Qin , Hanat Adai , Zelin Fu , Tianxiang Zhou , Han Zhang , Yinghao Xu , Xing Zhu , Yujun Shen , Nan Xue

Retrieving the missing dimension information in acoustic images from 2D forward-looking sonar is a well-known problem in the field of underwater robotics. There are works attempting to retrieve 3D information from a single image which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Yusheng Wang , Yonghoon Ji , Hiroshi Tsuchiya , Hajime Asama , Atsushi Yamashita

Reliable omnidirectional depth estimation from multi-fisheye stereo matching is pivotal to many applications, such as embodied robotics. Existing approaches either rely on spherical sweeping with heuristic fusion strategies to build the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Lehuai Xu , Weiming Zhang , Yang Li , Sidan Du , Lin Wang

To predict high-resolution (HR) omnidirectional depth map, existing methods typically leverage HR omnidirectional image (ODI) as the input via fully-supervised learning. However, in practice, taking HR ODI as input is undesired due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Zidong Cao , Hao Ai , Athanasios V. Vasilakos , Lin Wang

The dense depth estimation of a 3D scene has numerous applications, mainly in robotics and surveillance. LiDAR and radar sensors are the hardware solution for real-time depth estimation, but these sensors produce sparse depth maps and are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Alwyn Mathew , Aditya Prakash Patra , Jimson Mathew

Light field applications, especially light field rendering and depth estimation, developed rapidly in recent years. While state-of-the-art light field rendering methods handle semi-transparent and reflective objects well, depth estimation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Titus Leistner , Radek Mackowiak , Lynton Ardizzone , Ullrich Köthe , Carsten Rother

Depth sensing is a critical component of autonomous driving technologies, but today's LiDAR- or stereo camera-based solutions have limited range. We seek to increase the maximum range of self-driving vehicles' depth perception modules for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-08 Kai Zhang , Jiaxin Xie , Noah Snavely , Qifeng Chen

360 depth estimation has recently received great attention for 3D reconstruction owing to its omnidirectional field of view (FoV). Recent approaches are predominantly focused on cross-projection fusion with geometry-based re-projection:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Hao Ai , Lin Wang

Video depth estimation is crucial in various applications, such as scene reconstruction and augmented reality. In contrast to the naive method of estimating depths from images, a more sophisticated approach uses temporal information,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Elena Kosheleva , Sunil Jaiswal , Faranak Shamsafar , Noshaba Cheema , Klaus Illgner-Fehns , Philipp Slusallek

Bounded by the inherent ambiguity of depth perception, contemporary camera-based 3D object detection methods fall into the performance bottleneck. Intuitively, leveraging temporal multi-view stereo (MVS) technology is the natural knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Yinhao Li , Han Bao , Zheng Ge , Jinrong Yang , Jianjian Sun , Zeming Li

Omnidirectional scene understanding is vital for various downstream applications, such as embodied AI, autonomous driving, and immersive environments, yet remains challenging due to geometric distortion and complex spatial relations in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Xinshen Zhang , Tongxi Fu , Xu Zheng

Fisheye cameras are increasingly adopted in robotics for near-field manipulation, navigation, and immersive perception, yet indoor depth benchmarks with accurate ground truth are still missing. To address this, we introduce WideDepth - the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Ilia Indyk , Ignat Penshin , Ivan Sosin , Maxim Monastyrny , Aleksei Valenkov , Ilya Makarov

In this paper, we introduce Semi-SMD, a novel metric depth estimation framework tailored for surrounding cameras equipment in autonomous driving. In this work, the input data consists of adjacent surrounding frames and camera parameters. We…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Yusen Xie , Zhengmin Huang , Shaojie Shen , Jun Ma