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Current self-supervised monocular depth estimation (MDE) approaches encounter performance limitations due to insufficient semantic-spatial knowledge extraction. To address this challenge, we propose Hybrid-depth, a novel framework that…

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In this paper, we demonstrate that CLIP can also be adapted to downstream tasks where its vision-language alignment is suboptimally learned during pre-training on web-crawled data, all without requiring fine-tuning. We explore the case of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Sohee Kim , Jisu Kang , Dunam Kim , Seokju Lee

In self-supervised monocular depth estimation, the depth discontinuity and motion objects' artifacts are still challenging problems. Existing self-supervised methods usually utilize a single view to train the depth estimation network.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-29 Jianrong Wang , Ge Zhang , Zhenyu Wu , XueWei Li , Li Liu

Traditional monocular depth estimation suffers from inherent ambiguity and visual nuisances. We demonstrate that language can enhance monocular depth estimation by providing an additional condition (rather than images alone) aligned with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Ziyao Zeng , Jingcheng Ni , Daniel Wang , Patrick Rim , Younjoon Chung , Fengyu Yang , Byung-Woo Hong , Alex Wong

In this paper we consider the problem of single monocular image depth estimation. It is a challenging problem due to its ill-posedness nature and has found wide application in industry. Previous efforts belongs roughly to two families:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-16 Yiran Wu , Sihao Ying , Lianmin Zheng

Robotic and autonomous systems need dense spatial cues, but many monocular depth models are heavy, task-specific, or hard to attach to an existing multimodal stack. CLIP offers strong semantic representations, yet most CLIP-based depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Taewan Cho , Taeryang Kim , Andrew Jaeyong Choi

Perceiving 3D information is of paramount importance in many applications of computer vision. Recent advances in monocular depth estimation have shown that gaining such knowledge from a single camera input is possible by training deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Sai Shyam Chanduri , Zeeshan Khan Suri , Igor Vozniak , Christian Müller

Over the past few years, self-supervised monocular depth estimation that does not depend on ground-truth during the training phase has received widespread attention. Most efforts focus on designing different types of network architectures…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Shuwei Shao , Zhongcai Pei , Weihai Chen , Dingchi Sun , Peter C. Y. Chen , Zhengguo Li

Monocular depth estimation from RGB images plays a pivotal role in 3D vision. However, its accuracy can deteriorate in challenging environments such as nighttime or adverse weather conditions. While long-wave infrared cameras offer stable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Jialei Xu , Xianming Liu , Junjun Jiang , Kui Jiang , Rui Li , Kai Cheng , Xiangyang Ji

Monocular depth estimation has been increasingly adopted in robotics and autonomous driving for its ability to infer scene geometry from a single camera. In self-supervised monocular depth estimation frameworks, the network jointly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Tae-Wook Um , Ki-Hyeon Kim , Hyun-Duck Choi , Hyo-Sung Ahn

Photometric consistency loss is one of the representative objective functions commonly used for self-supervised monocular depth estimation. However, this loss often causes unstable depth predictions in textureless or occluded regions due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Byeongjun Park , Taekyung Kim , Hyojun Go , Changick Kim

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

We propose a self-supervised monocular depth estimation network tailored for endoscopic scenes, aiming to infer depth within the gastrointestinal tract from monocular images. Existing methods, though accurate, typically assume consistent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Zebo Huang , Yinghui Wang

In the absence of parallax cues, a learning-based single image depth estimation (SIDE) model relies heavily on shading and contextual cues in the image. While this simplicity is attractive, it is necessary to train such models on large and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Suraj Patni , Aradhye Agarwal , Chetan Arora

In this paper, we tackle the problem of estimating the depth of a scene from a monocular video sequence. In particular, we handle challenging scenarios, such as non-translational camera motion and dynamic scenes, where traditional structure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-11-20 Miaomiao Liu , Mathieu Salzmann , Xuming He

Self-supervised monocular depth estimation (SSMDE) has gained attention in the field of deep learning as it estimates depth without requiring ground truth depth maps. This approach typically uses a photometric consistency loss between a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Wonhyeok Choi , Kyumin Hwang , Minwoo Choi , Kiljoon Han , Wonjoon Choi , Mingyu Shin , Sunghoon Im

Denoising diffusion probabilistic models have transformed image generation with their impressive fidelity and diversity. We show that they also excel in estimating optical flow and monocular depth, surprisingly, without task-specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Saurabh Saxena , Charles Herrmann , Junhwa Hur , Abhishek Kar , Mohammad Norouzi , Deqing Sun , David J. Fleet

Image-based depth estimation has gained significant attention in recent research on computer vision for autonomous vehicles in intelligent transportation systems. This focus stems from its cost-effectiveness and wide range of potential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Elton F. de S. Soares , Carlos Alberto V. Campos

Monocular depth estimation is often described as an ill-posed and inherently ambiguous problem. Estimating depth from 2D images is a crucial step in scene reconstruction, 3Dobject recognition, segmentation, and detection. The problem can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Amlaan Bhoi

Monocular depth estimation can play an important role in addressing the issue of deriving scene geometry from 2D images. It has been used in a variety of industries, including robots, self-driving cars, scene comprehension, 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Ruilin Ma , Shiyao Chen , Qin Zhang