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We present a novel method to train machine learning algorithms to estimate scene depths from a single image, by using the information provided by a camera's aperture as supervision. Prior works use a depth sensor's outputs or images of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-30 Pratul P. Srinivasan , Rahul Garg , Neal Wadhwa , Ren Ng , Jonathan T. Barron

While state-of-the-art monocular depth estimation approaches achieve impressive results in ideal settings, they are highly unreliable under challenging illumination and weather conditions, such as at nighttime or in the presence of rain. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Stefano Gasperini , Nils Morbitzer , HyunJun Jung , Nassir Navab , Federico Tombari

Estimating depth from a single image is a challenging visual task. Compared to relative depth estimation, metric depth estimation attracts more attention due to its practical physical significance and critical applications in real-life…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Ruijie Zhu , Chuxin Wang , Ziyang Song , Li Liu , Tianzhu Zhang , Yongdong Zhang

Monocular depth estimation (MDE) is a critical task to guide autonomous medical robots. However, obtaining absolute (metric) depth from an endoscopy camera in surgical scenes is difficult, which limits supervised learning of depth on real…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Hao Li , Daiwei Lu , Jesse d'Almeida , Dilara Isik , Ehsan Khodapanah Aghdam , Nick DiSanto , Ayberk Acar , Susheela Sharma , Jie Ying Wu , Robert J. Webster , Ipek Oguz

Monocular depth estimation (MDE) plays a pivotal role in various computer vision applications, such as robotics, augmented reality, and autonomous driving. Despite recent advancements, existing methods often fail to meet key requirements…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Andrii Litvynchuk , Ivan Livinsky , Anand Ravi , Nima Kalantari , Andrii Tsarov

Metric depth prediction from monocular videos suffers from bad generalization between datasets and requires supervised depth data for scale-correct training. Self-supervised training using multi-view reconstruction can benefit from large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Xiaohu Liu , Sascha Hornauer , Fabien Moutarde , Jialiang Lu

In many real-world applications, the relative depth of objects in an image is crucial for scene understanding. Recent approaches mainly tackle the problem of depth prediction in monocular images by treating the problem as a regression task.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Julian Lienen , Eyke Hüllermeier , Ralph Ewerth , Nils Nommensen

We present a novel monocular localization framework by jointly training deep learning-based depth prediction and Bayesian filtering-based pose reasoning. The proposed cross-modal framework significantly outperforms deep learning-only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Priyesh Shukla , Sureshkumar S. , Alex C. Stutts , Sathya Ravi , Theja Tulabandhula , Amit R. Trivedi

Accurate depth estimation in endoscopy is vital for successfully implementing computer vision pipelines for various medical procedures and CAD tools. In this paper, we present the EndoDepth benchmark, an evaluation framework designed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Ivan Reyes-Amezcua , Ricardo Espinosa , Christian Daul , Gilberto Ochoa-Ruiz , Andres Mendez-Vazquez

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

We introduce NimbleD, an efficient self-supervised monocular depth estimation learning framework that incorporates supervision from pseudo-labels generated by a large vision model. This framework does not require camera intrinsics, enabling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Albert Luginov , Muhammad Shahzad

Monocular depth estimation is an important task with rapid progress, but how to evaluate it is not fully resolved, as evidenced by a lack of standardization in existing literature and a large selection of evaluation metrics whose trade-offs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Siyang Wu , Jack Nugent , Willow Yang , Jia Deng

Monocular metric depth estimation has achieved strong progress with large-scale training and universal-camera modeling, yet robust deployment across diverse camera settings, such as perspective, fisheye, and panoramic images, remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Jie Zhu , Girish Chandar Ganesan , Xiaoming Liu

Obtaining accurate depth measurements out of a single image represents a fascinating solution to 3D sensing. CNNs led to considerable improvements in this field, and recent trends replaced the need for ground-truth labels with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Matteo Poggi , Fabio Tosi , Stefano Mattoccia

Recent advances in self-supervised learning havedemonstrated that it is possible to learn accurate monoculardepth reconstruction from raw video data, without using any 3Dground truth for supervision. However, in robotics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Robert McCraith , Lukas Neumann , Andrew Zisserman , Andrea Vedaldi

We propose SharpDepth, a novel approach to monocular metric depth estimation that combines the metric accuracy of discriminative depth estimation methods (e.g., Metric3D, UniDepth) with the fine-grained boundary sharpness typically achieved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Duc-Hai Pham , Tung Do , Phong Nguyen , Binh-Son Hua , Khoi Nguyen , Rang Nguyen

It is difficult to collect data on a large scale in a monocular depth estimation because the task requires the simultaneous acquisition of RGB images and depths. Data augmentation is thus important to this task. However, there has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Yasunori Ishii , Takayoshi Yamashita

Self-supervised monocular depth estimation is a significant task for low-cost and efficient 3D scene perception and measurement in endoscopy. However, the variety of illumination conditions and scene features is still the primary challenges…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Liangjing Shao , Chenkang Du , Benshuang Chen , Xueli Liu , Xinrong Chen

Recent advancements of neural networks lead to reliable monocular depth estimation. Monocular depth estimated techniques have the upper hand over traditional depth estimation techniques as it only needs one image during inference. Depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Alwyn Mathew , Aditya Prakash Patra , Jimson Mathew

Monocular depth estimation (MDE) has been widely adopted in the perception systems of autonomous vehicles and mobile robots. However, existing approaches often struggle to maintain temporal consistency in depth estimation across consecutive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Leezy Han , Seunggyu Kim , Dongseok Shim , Hyeonbeom Lee