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Depth and ego-motion estimations are essential for the localization and navigation of autonomous robots and autonomous driving. Recent studies make it possible to learn the per-pixel depth and ego-motion from the unlabeled monocular video.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Guangming Wang , Jiquan Zhong , Shijie Zhao , Wenhua Wu , Zhe Liu , Hesheng Wang

In the area of self-supervised monocular depth estimation, models that utilize rich-resource inputs, such as high-resolution and multi-frame inputs, typically achieve better performance than models that use ordinary single image input.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Wencheng Han , Jianbing Shen

Monocular depth estimation (MDE) has widely applicable but remains highly challenging due to the inherently ill-posed nature of reconstructing 3D scenes from single 2D images. Modern Vision Foundation Models (VFMs), pre-trained on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Gongshu Wang , Zhirui Wang , Kan Yang

We present a foundation model for zero-shot metric monocular depth estimation. Our model, Depth Pro, synthesizes high-resolution depth maps with unparalleled sharpness and high-frequency details. The predictions are metric, with absolute…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Aleksei Bochkovskii , Amaël Delaunoy , Hugo Germain , Marcel Santos , Yichao Zhou , Stephan R. Richter , Vladlen Koltun

We propose MAMo, a novel memory and attention frame-work for monocular video depth estimation. MAMo can augment and improve any single-image depth estimation networks into video depth estimation models, enabling them to take advantage of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Rajeev Yasarla , Hong Cai , Jisoo Jeong , Yunxiao Shi , Risheek Garrepalli , Fatih Porikli

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

Despite remarkable progress in video generation, maintaining long-term scene consistency upon revisiting previously explored areas remains challenging. Existing solutions rely either on explicitly constructing 3D geometry, which suffers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Jia Li , Han Yan , Yihang Chen , Siqi Li , Xibin Song , Yifu Wang , Jianfei Cai , Tien-Tsin Wong , Pan Ji

We describe a non-parametric, "example-based" method for estimating the depth of an object, viewed in a single photo. Our method consults a database of example 3D geometries, searching for those which look similar to the object in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-04-16 Tal Hassner , Ronen Basri

It has long been an ill-posed problem to predict absolute depth maps from single images in real (unseen) indoor scenes. We observe that it is essentially due to not only the scale-ambiguous problem but also the focal-ambiguous problem that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Chengrui Wei , Meng Yang , Lei He , Nanning Zheng

In this paper, we present a fast monocular depth estimation method for enabling 3D perception capabilities of low-cost underwater robots. We formulate a novel end-to-end deep visual learning pipeline named UDepth, which incorporates domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Boxiao Yu , Jiayi Wu , Md Jahidul Islam

While recent years have witnessed great progress on using diffusion models for video generation, most of them are simple extensions of image generation frameworks, which fail to explicitly consider one of the key differences between videos…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Jingyun Liang , Yuchen Fan , Kai Zhang , Radu Timofte , Luc Van Gool , Rakesh Ranjan

Accurately estimating depth in 360-degree imagery is crucial for virtual reality, autonomous navigation, and immersive media applications. Existing depth estimation methods designed for perspective-view imagery fail when applied to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Ning-Hsu Wang , Yu-Lun Liu

This work presents Depth Anything V2. Without pursuing fancy techniques, we aim to reveal crucial findings to pave the way towards building a powerful monocular depth estimation model. Notably, compared with V1, this version produces much…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Lihe Yang , Bingyi Kang , Zilong Huang , Zhen Zhao , Xiaogang Xu , Jiashi Feng , Hengshuang Zhao

Deep learning techniques have enabled rapid progress in monocular depth estimation, but their quality is limited by the ill-posed nature of the problem and the scarcity of high quality datasets. We estimate depth from a single camera by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Rahul Garg , Neal Wadhwa , Sameer Ansari , Jonathan T. Barron

Existing video depth estimation faces a fundamental trade-off: generative models suffer from stochastic geometric hallucinations and scale drift, while discriminative models demand massive labeled datasets to resolve semantic ambiguities.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Hongfei Zhang , Harold Haodong Chen , Chenfei Liao , Jing He , Zixin Zhang , Haodong Li , Yihao Liang , Kanghao Chen , Bin Ren , Xu Zheng , Shuai Yang , Kun Zhou , Yinchuan Li , Nicu Sebe , Ying-Cong Chen

Self-supervised monocular depth estimation has shown impressive results in static scenes. It relies on the multi-view consistency assumption for training networks, however, that is violated in dynamic object regions and occlusions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Libo Sun , Jia-Wang Bian , Huangying Zhan , Wei Yin , Ian Reid , Chunhua Shen

Empowered by Large Language Models (LLMs), recent advancements in Video-based LLMs (VideoLLMs) have driven progress in various video understanding tasks. These models encode video representations through pooling or query aggregation over a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Yuetian Weng , Mingfei Han , Haoyu He , Xiaojun Chang , Bohan Zhuang

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

Notable breakthroughs in unified understanding and generation modeling have led to remarkable advancements in image understanding, reasoning, production and editing, yet current foundational models predominantly focus on processing images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Zhiyu Tan , Hao Yang , Luozheng Qin , Jia Gong , Mengping Yang , Hao Li

Monocular Depth Estimation (MDE) is a fundamental computer vision task with important applications in 3D vision. The current mainstream MDE methods employ an encoder-decoder architecture with multi-level/scale feature processing. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Huibin Bai , Shuai Li , Hanxiao Zhai , Yanbo Gao , Chong Lv , Yibo Wang , Haipeng Ping , Wei Hua , Xingyu Gao