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Monocular depth estimation aims to recover the depth information of 3D scenes from 2D images. Recent work has made significant progress, but its reliance on large-scale datasets and complex decoders has limited its efficiency and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Zeyu Ren , Zeyu Zhang , Wukai Li , Qingxiang Liu , Hao Tang

We propose DepR, a depth-guided single-view scene reconstruction framework that integrates instance-level diffusion within a compositional paradigm. Instead of reconstructing the entire scene holistically, DepR generates individual objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Qingcheng Zhao , Xiang Zhang , Haiyang Xu , Zeyuan Chen , Jianwen Xie , Yuan Gao , Zhuowen Tu

Recovering a dynamic 3D scene from a long monocular video is crucial for dense geometry, camera motion, and temporal correspondence to remain consistent in a shared coordinate system. Existing methods face two key challenges: (1)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Chenyi Xu , Yihao Wu , Liqi Yan , Chao Yang , Jianhui Zhang , Fangli Guan , Pan Li

By training over large-scale datasets, zero-shot monocular depth estimation (MDE) methods show robust performance in the wild but often suffer from insufficient detail. Although recent diffusion-based MDE approaches exhibit a superior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Xiang Zhang , Bingxin Ke , Hayko Riemenschneider , Nando Metzger , Anton Obukhov , Markus Gross , Konrad Schindler , Christopher Schroers

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

Depth estimation is an important step in many computer vision problems such as 3D reconstruction, novel view synthesis, and computational photography. Most existing work focuses on depth estimation from single frames. When applied to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Numair Khan , Eric Penner , Douglas Lanman , Lei Xiao

Monocular depth estimation is a fundamental computer vision task. Recovering 3D depth from a single image is geometrically ill-posed and requires scene understanding, so it is not surprising that the rise of deep learning has led to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Bingxin Ke , Anton Obukhov , Shengyu Huang , Nando Metzger , Rodrigo Caye Daudt , Konrad Schindler

Unsupervised monocular depth estimation has received widespread attention because of its capability to train without ground truth. In real-world scenarios, the images may be blurry or noisy due to the influence of weather conditions and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Runze Liu , Dongchen Zhu , Guanghui Zhang , Yue Xu , Wenjun Shi , Xiaolin Zhang , Lei Wang , Jiamao Li

We formulate monocular depth estimation using denoising diffusion models, inspired by their recent successes in high fidelity image generation. To that end, we introduce innovations to address problems arising due to noisy, incomplete depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Saurabh Saxena , Abhishek Kar , Mohammad Norouzi , David J. Fleet

Depth estimation plays a pivotal role in advancing human-robot interactions, especially in indoor environments where accurate 3D scene reconstruction is essential for tasks like navigation and object handling. Monocular depth estimation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Siddiqui Muhammad Yasir , Hyunsik Ahn

Depth estimation from a single image in the wild remains a challenging problem. One main obstacle is the lack of high-quality training data for images in the wild. In this paper we propose a method to automatically generate such data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-25 Weifeng Chen , Shengyi Qian , Jia Deng

Depth estimation from monocular video has become a key component of many real-world computer vision systems. Recently, Video Depth Anything (VDA) has demonstrated strong performance on long video sequences. However, it relies on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Johann-Friedrich Feiden , Tim Küchler , Denis Zavadski , Bogdan Savchynskyy , Carsten Rother

Pre-trained Vision-Language Models (VLMs), such as CLIP, have shown enhanced performance across a range of tasks that involve the integration of visual and linguistic modalities. When CLIP is used for depth estimation tasks, the patches,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Xueting Hu , Ce Zhang , Yi Zhang , Bowen Hai , Ke Yu , Zhihai He

Streaming video generation, as one fundamental component in interactive world models and neural game engines, aims to generate high-quality, low-latency, and temporally coherent long video streams. However, most existing work suffers from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Kunhao Liu , Wenbo Hu , Jiale Xu , Ying Shan , Shijian Lu

Recent geometric methods need reliable estimates of 3D motion parameters to procure accurate dense depth map of a complex dynamic scene from monocular images \cite{kumar2017monocular, ranftl2016dense}. Generally, to estimate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Suryansh Kumar , Ram Srivatsav Ghorakavi , Yuchao Dai , Hongdong 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

Current geometry-based monocular 3D object detection models can efficiently detect objects by leveraging perspective geometry, but their performance is limited due to the absence of accurate depth information. Though this issue can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-29 Chenhang He , Jianqiang Huang , Xian-Sheng Hua , Lei Zhang

We study the problem of synthesizing a long-term dynamic video from only a single image. This is challenging since it requires consistent visual content movements given large camera motions. Existing methods either hallucinate inconsistent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Liao Shen , Xingyi Li , Huiqiang Sun , Juewen Peng , Ke Xian , Zhiguo Cao , Guosheng Lin

Monocular depth estimation involves predicting depth from a single RGB image and plays a crucial role in applications such as autonomous driving, robotic navigation, 3D reconstruction, etc. Recent advancements in learning-based methods have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Jingming Xia , Guanqun Cao , Guang Ma , Yiben Luo , Qinzhao Li , John Oyekan

Accurate monocular metric depth estimation (MMDE) is crucial to solving downstream tasks in 3D perception and modeling. However, the remarkable accuracy of recent MMDE methods is confined to their training domains. These methods fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Luigi Piccinelli , Christos Sakaridis , Yung-Hsu Yang , Mattia Segu , Siyuan Li , Wim Abbeloos , Luc Van Gool