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Monocular depth estimation is crucial for tracking and reconstruction algorithms, particularly in the context of surgical videos. However, the inherent challenges in directly obtaining ground truth depth maps during surgery render…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Ange Lou , Yamin Li , Yike Zhang , Jack Noble

The estimation of depth in two-dimensional images has long been a challenging and extensively studied subject in computer vision. Recently, significant progress has been made with the emergence of Deep Learning-based approaches, which have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Vasileios Arampatzakis , George Pavlidis , Kyriakos Pantoglou , Nikolaos Mitianoudis , Nikos Papamarkos

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

With the rapid advancements in autonomous driving and robot navigation, there is a growing demand for lifelong learning models capable of estimating metric (absolute) depth. Lifelong learning approaches potentially offer significant cost…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Junjie Hu , Chenyou Fan , Liguang Zhou , Qing Gao , Honghai Liu , Tin Lun Lam

Monocular 3D object detection poses a significant challenge due to the lack of depth information in RGB images. Many existing methods strive to enhance the object depth estimation performance by allocating additional parameters for object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Wonhyeok Choi , Mingyu Shin , Sunghoon Im

Recently, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown great success on the task of monocular depth estimation. A fundamental yet unanswered question is: how CNNs can infer depth from a single image. Toward answering this question, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Junjie Hu , Yan Zhang , Takayuki Okatani

Previous methods on estimating detailed human depth often require supervised training with `ground truth' depth data. This paper presents a self-supervised method that can be trained on YouTube videos without known depth, which makes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-08 Feitong Tan , Hao Zhu , Zhaopeng Cui , Siyu Zhu , Marc Pollefeys , Ping Tan

Monocular depth priors have been widely adopted by neural rendering in multi-view based tasks such as 3D reconstruction and novel view synthesis. However, due to the inconsistent prediction on each view, how to more effectively leverage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Wenyuan Zhang , Yixiao Yang , Han Huang , Liang Han , Kanle Shi , Yu-Shen Liu , Zhizhong Han

Estimating depth from RGB images can facilitate many computer vision tasks, such as indoor localization, height estimation, and simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). Recently, monocular depth estimation has obtained great progress…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Qing Li , Jiasong Zhu , Jun Liu , Rui Cao , Qingquan Li , Sen Jia , Guoping Qiu

Existing self-supervised monocular depth estimation methods can get rid of expensive annotations and achieve promising results. However, these methods suffer from severe performance degradation when directly adopting a model trained on a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Mu He , Le Hui , Yikai Bian , Jian Ren , Jin Xie , Jian Yang

Monocular depth estimation (MDE) aims to transform an RGB image of a scene into a pixelwise depth map from the same camera view. It is fundamentally ill-posed due to missing information: any single image can have been taken from many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Dylan Auty , Krystian Mikolajczyk

Monocular 3D object detection has attracted widespread attention due to its potential to accurately obtain object 3D localization from a single image at a low cost. Depth estimation is an essential but challenging subtask of monocular 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Longfei Yan , Pei Yan , Shengzhou Xiong , Xuanyu Xiang , Yihua Tan

As a flexible passive 3D sensing means, unsupervised learning of depth from monocular videos is becoming an important research topic. It utilizes the photometric errors between the target view and the synthesized views from its adjacent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Hualie Jiang , Laiyan Ding , Zhenglong Sun , Rui Huang

Image reconstruction methods based on deep neural networks have shown outstanding performance, equalling or exceeding the state-of-the-art results of conventional approaches, but often do not provide uncertainty information about the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Riccardo Barbano , Željko Kereta , Chen Zhang , Andreas Hauptmann , Simon Arridge , Bangti Jin

Purpose: Monocular depth estimation (MDE) is vital for scene understanding in minimally invasive surgery (MIS). However, endoscopic video sequences are often contaminated by smoke, specular reflections, blur, and occlusions, limiting the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Muhammad Asad , Emanuele Colleoni , Pritesh Mehta , Nicolas Toussaint , Ricardo Sanchez-Matilla , Maria Robu , Faisal Bashir , Rahim Mohammadi , Imanol Luengo , Danail Stoyanov

Despite advancements in self-supervised monocular depth estimation, challenges persist in dynamic scenarios due to the dependence on assumptions about a static world. In this paper, we present Manydepth2, to achieve precise depth estimation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Kaichen Zhou , Jia-Wang Bian , Jian-Qing Zheng , Jiaxing Zhong , Qian Xie , Niki Trigoni , Andrew Markham

Current self-supervised monocular depth estimation methods are mostly based on estimating a rigid-body motion representing camera motion. These methods suffer from the well-known scale ambiguity problem in their predictions. We propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-06 Sadra Safadoust , Fatma Güney

Learning to predict scene depth from RGB inputs is a challenging task both for indoor and outdoor robot navigation. In this work we address unsupervised learning of scene depth and robot ego-motion where supervision is provided by monocular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-16 Vincent Casser , Soeren Pirk , Reza Mahjourian , Anelia Angelova

Monocular depth estimation is an ambiguous problem, thus global structural cues play an important role in current data-driven single-view depth estimation methods. Panorama images capture the complete spatial information of their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Meng Li , Senbo Wang , Weihao Yuan , Weichao Shen , Zhe Sheng , Zilong Dong

Explainable artificial intelligence is increasingly employed to understand the decision-making process of deep learning models and create trustworthiness in their adoption. However, the explainability of Monocular Depth Estimation (MDE)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Lorenzo Cirillo , Claudio Schiavella , Lorenzo Papa , Paolo Russo , Irene Amerini