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Supervised learning based methods for monocular depth estimation usually require large amounts of extensively annotated training data. In the case of aerial imagery, this ground truth is particularly difficult to acquire. Therefore, in this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Max Hermann , Boitumelo Ruf , Martin Weinmann , Stefan Hinz

Many standard robotic platforms are equipped with at least a fixed 2D laser range finder and a monocular camera. Although those platforms do not have sensors for 3D depth sensing capability, knowledge of depth is an essential part in many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-08 Yiyi Liao , Lichao Huang , Yue Wang , Sarath Kodagoda , Yinan Yu , Yong Liu

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

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

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

In the recent years, many methods demonstrated the ability of neural networks to learn depth and pose changes in a sequence of images, using only self-supervision as the training signal. Whilst the networks achieve good performance, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Robert McCraith , Lukas Neumann , Andrea Vedaldi

Unsupervised methods have showed promising results on monocular depth estimation. However, the training data must be captured in scenes without moving objects. To push the envelope of accuracy, recent methods tend to increase their model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Tak-Wai Hui

Monocular depth estimation has drawn widespread attention from the vision community due to its broad applications. In this paper, we propose a novel physics (geometry)-driven deep learning framework for monocular depth estimation by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Shuwei Shao , Zhongcai Pei , Weihai Chen , Xingming Wu , Zhengguo Li

Most existing algorithms for depth estimation from single monocular images need large quantities of metric groundtruth depths for supervised learning. We show that relative depth can be an informative cue for metric depth estimation and can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Yuanzhouhan Cao , Tianqi Zhao , Ke Xian , Chunhua Shen , Zhiguo Cao , Shugong Xu

Scaling has powered recent advances in vision foundation models, yet extending this paradigm to metric depth estimation remains challenging due to heterogeneous sensor noise, camera-dependent biases, and metric ambiguity in noisy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Baorui Ma , Jiahui Yang , Donglin Di , Xuancheng Zhang , Jianxun Cui , Hao Li , Yan Xie , Wei Chen

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

Learning based methods have shown very promising results for the task of depth estimation in single images. However, most existing approaches treat depth prediction as a supervised regression problem and as a result, require vast quantities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-14 Clément Godard , Oisin Mac Aodha , Gabriel J. Brostow

Generalizing metric monocular depth estimation presents a significant challenge due to its ill-posed nature, while the entanglement between camera parameters and depth amplifies issues further, hindering multi-dataset training and zero-shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Karlo Koledić , Luka Petrović , Ivan Marković , Ivan Petrović

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

Monocular depth estimation is an essential task in the computer vision community. While tremendous successful methods have obtained excellent results, most of them are computationally expensive and not applicable for real-time on-device…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Zhenyu Li , Zehui Chen , Jialei Xu , Xianming Liu , Junjun Jiang

In this paper, we propose enhancing monocular depth estimation by adding 3D points as depth guidance. Unlike existing depth completion methods, our approach performs well on extremely sparse and unevenly distributed point clouds, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Lam Huynh , Phong Nguyen-Ha , Jiri Matas , Esa Rahtu , Janne Heikkila

Stereo matching serves as a cornerstone in 3D vision, aiming to establish pixel-wise correspondences between stereo image pairs for depth recovery. Despite remarkable progress driven by deep neural architectures, current models often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Xianda Guo , Chenming Zhang , Youmin Zhang , Ruilin Wang , Dujun Nie , Wenzhao Zheng , Matteo Poggi , Hao Zhao , Mang Ye , Qin Zou , Long Chen

Monocular depth estimation (MDE) typically produces depth estimations that are defined up to an unknown scale or shift. When only sparse metric anchors are available, recovering accurate metric depth becomes challenging yet necessary for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Yuanyan Li , Matthias Althoff

Depth estimation is a cornerstone of a vast number of applications requiring 3D assessment of the environment, such as robotics, augmented reality, and autonomous driving to name a few. One prominent technique for depth estimation is stereo…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Amit Bracha , Noam Rotstein , David Bensaïd , Ron Slossberg , Ron Kimmel

Accurate depth estimation with lowest compute and energy cost is a crucial requirement for unmanned and battery operated autonomous systems. Robotic applications require real time depth estimation for navigation and decision making under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Rajeev Patwari , Varo Ly