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Accurately distinguishing each object is a fundamental goal of Multi-object tracking (MOT) algorithms. However, achieving this goal still remains challenging, primarily due to: (i) For crowded scenes with occluded objects, the high overlap…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Jiapeng Wu , Yichen Liu

We present the first marker-less approach for temporally coherent 3D performance capture of a human with general clothing from monocular video. Our approach reconstructs articulated human skeleton motion as well as medium-scale non-rigid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-26 Weipeng Xu , Avishek Chatterjee , Michael Zollhöfer , Helge Rhodin , Dushyant Mehta , Hans-Peter Seidel , Christian Theobalt

Existing deep models predict 2D and 3D kinematic poses from video that are approximately accurate, but contain visible errors that violate physical constraints, such as feet penetrating the ground and bodies leaning at extreme angles. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-27 Davis Rempe , Leonidas J. Guibas , Aaron Hertzmann , Bryan Russell , Ruben Villegas , Jimei Yang

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

Depth from a monocular video can enable billions of devices and robots with a single camera to see the world in 3D. In this paper, we present an approach with a differentiable flow-to-depth layer for video depth estimation. The model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-04 Jiaxin Xie , Chenyang Lei , Zhuwen Li , Li Erran Li , Qifeng Chen

As a crucial task of autonomous driving, 3D object detection has made great progress in recent years. However, monocular 3D object detection remains a challenging problem due to the unsatisfactory performance in depth estimation. Most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Yinmin Zhang , Xinzhu Ma , Shuai Yi , Jun Hou , Zhihui Wang , Wanli Ouyang , Dan Xu

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

Dense and accurate 3D mapping from a monocular sequence is a key technology for several applications and still an open research area. This paper leverages recent results on single-view CNN-based depth estimation and fuses them with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-28 José M. Fácil , Alejo Concha , Luis Montesano , Javier Civera

A monocular 3D object tracking system generally has only up-to-scale pose estimation results without any prior knowledge of the tracked object. In this paper, we propose a novel idea to recover the metric scale of an arbitrary dynamic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-08-22 Kejie Qiu , Tong Qin , Hongwen Xie , Shaojie Shen

We present an algorithm for reconstructing dense, geometrically consistent depth for all pixels in a monocular video. We leverage a conventional structure-from-motion reconstruction to establish geometric constraints on pixels in the video.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-28 Xuan Luo , Jia-Bin Huang , Richard Szeliski , Kevin Matzen , Johannes Kopf

Estimating the 3D world from 2D monocular images is a fundamental yet challenging task due to the labour-intensive nature of 3D annotations. To simplify label acquisition, this work proposes a novel approach that bridges 2D vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Sihao Lin , Daqi Liu , Ruochong Fu , Dongrui Liu , Andy Song , Hongwei Xie , Zhihui Li , Bing Wang , Xiaojun Chang

Video monocular depth estimation is essential for applications such as autonomous driving, AR/VR, and robotics. Recent transformer-based single-image monocular depth estimation models perform well on single images but struggle with depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Sunghun Yang , Minhyeok Lee , Suhwan Cho , Jungho Lee , Sangyoun Lee

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

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

Depth estimation is an important step in many computer vision problems such as 3D reconstruction, novel view synthesis, and computational photography. Most existing work focuses on depth estimation from single frames. When applied to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Numair Khan , Eric Penner , Douglas Lanman , Lei Xiao

A natural approach to generative modeling of videos is to represent them as a composition of moving objects. Recent works model a set of 2D sprites over a slowly-varying background, but without considering the underlying 3D scene that gives…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Paul Henderson , Christoph H. Lampert

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

Laparoscopic video tracking primarily focuses on two target types: surgical instruments and anatomy. The former could be used for skill assessment, while the latter is necessary for the projection of virtual overlays. Where instrument and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Beerend G. A. Gerats , Jelmer M. Wolterink , Seb P. Mol , Ivo A. M. J. Broeders

Despite learning based methods showing promising results in single view depth estimation and visual odometry, most existing approaches treat the tasks in a supervised manner. Recent approaches to single view depth estimation explore the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-06 Huangying Zhan , Ravi Garg , Chamara Saroj Weerasekera , Kejie Li , Harsh Agarwal , Ian Reid

By analyzing the motion of people and other objects in a scene, we demonstrate how to infer depth, occlusion, lighting, and shadow information from video taken from a single camera viewpoint. This information is then used to composite new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Yifan Wang , Brian Curless , Steve Seitz