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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

3D reconstruction of depth and motion from monocular video in dynamic environments is a highly ill-posed problem due to scale ambiguities when projecting to the 2D image domain. In this work, we investigate the performance of the current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-24 Christian Homeyer , Oliver Lange , Christoph Schnörr

Monocular dynamic reconstruction is a challenging and long-standing vision problem due to the highly ill-posed nature of the task. Existing approaches depend on templates, are effective only in quasi-static scenes, or fail to model 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Qianqian Wang , Vickie Ye , Hang Gao , Weijia Zeng , Jake Austin , Zhengqi Li , Angjoo Kanazawa

Recovering dense and long-range pixel motion in videos is a challenging problem. Part of the difficulty arises from the 3D-to-2D projection process, leading to occlusions and discontinuities in the 2D motion domain. While 2D motion can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Yuxi Xiao , Qianqian Wang , Shangzhan Zhang , Nan Xue , Sida Peng , Yujun Shen , Xiaowei Zhou

Perceiving 3D objects from monocular inputs is crucial for robotic systems, given its economy compared to multi-sensor settings. It is notably difficult as a single image can not provide any clues for predicting absolute depth values.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Tai Wang , Jiangmiao Pang , Dahua Lin

We describe a technique that automatically generates plausible depth maps from videos using non-parametric depth sampling. We demonstrate our technique in cases where past methods fail (non-translating cameras and dynamic scenes). Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Kevin Karsch , Ce Liu , Sing Bing Kang

We describe a technique that automatically generates plausible depth maps from videos using non-parametric depth sampling. We demonstrate our technique in cases where past methods fail (non-translating cameras and dynamic scenes). Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Kevin Karsch , Ce Liu , Sing Bing Kang

In this paper, we propose a novel method for monocular depth estimation in dynamic scenes. We first explore the arbitrariness of object's movement trajectory in dynamic scenes theoretically. To overcome the arbitrariness, we use assume that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Kebin Peng , John Quarles , Kevin Desai

Depth estimation in videos is essential for visual perception in real-world applications. However, existing methods either rely on simple frame-by-frame monocular models, leading to temporal inconsistencies and inaccuracies, or use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Luigi Piccinelli , Thiemo Wandel , Christos Sakaridis , Wim Abbeloos , Luc Van Gool

Although considerable advancements have been attained in self-supervised depth estimation from monocular videos, most existing methods often treat all objects in a video as static entities, which however violates the dynamic nature of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Xiuzhe Wu , Xiaoyang Lyu , Qihao Huang , Yong Liu , Yang Wu , Ying Shan , Xiaojuan Qi

Video depth estimation is crucial in various applications, such as scene reconstruction and augmented reality. In contrast to the naive method of estimating depths from images, a more sophisticated approach uses temporal information,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Elena Kosheleva , Sunil Jaiswal , Faranak Shamsafar , Noshaba Cheema , Klaus Illgner-Fehns , Philipp Slusallek

Accurate monocular depth estimation is crucial for 3D scene understanding, but existing methods often blur depth at object boundaries, introducing spurious intermediate 3D points. While achieving sharp edges usually requires very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Aurélien Cecille , Stefan Duffner , Franck Davoine , Rémi Agier , Thibault Neveu

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

Despite significant progress in monocular depth estimation in the wild, recent state-of-the-art methods cannot be used to recover accurate 3D scene shape due to an unknown depth shift induced by shift-invariant reconstruction losses used in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Wei Yin , Jianming Zhang , Oliver Wang , Simon Niklaus , Long Mai , Simon Chen , Chunhua Shen

We present a novel method for multi-view depth estimation from a single video, which is a critical task in various applications, such as perception, reconstruction and robot navigation. Although previous learning-based methods have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Xiaoxiao Long , Lingjie Liu , Wei Li , Christian Theobalt , Wenping Wang

The self-supervised learning of depth and pose from monocular sequences provides an attractive solution by using the photometric consistency of nearby frames as it depends much less on the ground-truth data. In this paper, we address the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-20 Tianwei Shen , Lei Zhou , Zixin Luo , Yao Yao , Shiwei Li , Jiahui Zhang , Tian Fang , Long Quan

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

In the absence of a mechanical stabilizer, the camera undergoes inevitable rotational dynamics during capturing, which induces perspective-based blur especially under long-exposure scenarios. From an optical standpoint, perspective-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Tianchen Qiu , Qirun Zhang , Jiajian He , Zhengyue Zhuge , Jiahui Xu , Yueting Chen

Monocular depth estimation is a critical task for autonomous driving and many other computer vision applications. While significant progress has been made in this field, the effects of viewpoint shifts on depth estimation models remain…

Depth estimation from images serves as the fundamental step of 3D perception for autonomous driving and is an economical alternative to expensive depth sensors like LiDAR. The temporal photometric constraints enables self-supervised depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Yi Wei , Linqing Zhao , Wenzhao Zheng , Zheng Zhu , Yongming Rao , Guan Huang , Jiwen Lu , Jie Zhou